[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting
Date: August 14, 2020
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Yadavendra Yadav
- Michael Meffie
- Cheyenne Wills

The weekly release team meetings are held on Fridays at 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)
in release-team@conference.openafs.org on jabber. Please request login
information if you would like to participate. Logs are available at:

    https://conference.openafs.org/release-team@conference.openafs.org/

1.8.x stable
============

Reviews in progress for 1.8.7pre1

[1.8.x] 14293 asetkey: Add new 'delete' command variants
[1.8.x] 14285 salvaged: Fix "-parallel all<number>" parsing
[1.8.x] 14299 butc: fix int to float conversion warning
[1.8.x] 14298 afs: Avoid using logical OR when setting f_fsid
[1.8.x] 14297 afs: Set AFS_VFSFSID to a numerical value
[1.8.x] 14291 tests: Use usleep instead of nanosleep
[1.8.x] 14290 tests: Wait for server start in auth/superuser-t
[1.8.x] 14289 tests: Introduce afstest_GetProgname
[1.8.x] 14286 afs: Avoid panics on failed return from afs_CFileOpen
[1.8.x] 14288 vlserver: Return error when growing beyond 2 GiB
[1.8.x] 14284 LINUX: Initialize CellLRU during osi_Init
[1.8.x] 14283 util: Handle serverLogMutex lock across forks
[1.8.x] 14287 vlserver: Correctly pad nvlentry for "O" RPCs
[1.8.x] 14264 Make OpenAFS 1.8.7pre1
[1.8.x] 14142 ubik: positional io for db reads and writes
[1.8.x] 14141 ubik: remove unnecessary lseeks in uphys_open


Added to the candidate list for 1.8.7pre1.

[master] 14255 volser: Don't NUL-pad failed pread()s in dumps


1.9.x/master
============

Yadav reports work on NAT Ping issues were deferred, to continue next week.
Cheyenne reports clean linux-5.9 build with gerrit 14300.

[master] 14300 LINUX 5.9: Remove HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL/COMPAT_IOCTL

Gerrit 14300 triggered a discussion on the oldest supported version
of linux for master/1.8.x. It was decided the older supported verions
should be the 2.6 version found on RHEL5.  Cheyenne and Mike to
setup a RHEL5 buildbot to verify patches going forward. Cheyenne to
update the linux version info in the INSTALL file.

Ben to review gerrits 14154 and 14208.

[master] 14154 vlserver: fix missing read-only entries from ListAttributesN2
[master] 14208 vos: avoid CreateVolume when restoring over an existing volume

Infrastructure
==============

No updates.

Patches
=======

Recently merged onto branch 'openafs-stable-1_8_x':

14099 179a418ea5 LINUX: Properly revert creds in osi_UFSTruncate
14082 ee578e92d9 Linux: use override_creds when available

Recently submitted for branch 'master':

14301 venus: refactor NewCellCmd to facilitate its reuse

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

14238 eccd4b9778 afs: Always define our own osi_timeval32_t
14237 a5c3dfe99f afs: Move osi_GetTime out of param.h
14292 c56873bf95 afs: Avoid using logical OR when setting f_fsid
14279 446457a124 afs: Set AFS_VFSFSID to a numerical value
14275 e5f44f6e9a clang-10: ignore fallthrough warning in generated code
14274 16f1b2f894 clang-10: use AFS_FALLTHROUGH for case fallthrough
14266 e61ab9353e redhat: Add make to the dkms-openafs pre-requirements
14280 2d01f35d05 vol: Blank opts in VOptDefaults
14255 4498bd8179 volser: Don't NUL-pad failed pread()s in dumps
14277 37b55b30c6 butc: fix int to float conversion warning
14273 899b1af418 autoconf: fix detection for fallthrough attribute
14272 88da6b4dfa cf: Make local copy of ax_gcc_func_attribute.m4
13042 bb5397e4c4 rx: prevent leakage of non-cached rx_connections (pthread)
13041 55fca11421 rx: fix out-of-range value for RX_CONN_NAT_PING

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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>