[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting
Date: July 17, 2020
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Michael Meffie
- Yadavendra Yadav
- 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 series
============

* Stephan has merged most of the gerrits for 1.8.x to the
  openafs-stable-1_8_x branch.

* Requesting additional reviews for the 'ubik-perf' topic.

* Proposals for changes for 1.8.7 are in progress. Mike submitted
  a list of candidates:

14158 befc72749 rx: Use _IsLast to check for last call in queue
14093 8d90a9d27 LINUX: Initialize CellLRU during osi_Init
14201 4512d04a9 salvaged: Fix "-parallel all<number>" parsing
14239 e44d6441c util: Handle serverLogMutex lock across forks
14241 d2d27f975 afs: Avoid panics on failed return from afs_CFileOpen
14066 32d35db64 vos: take RO volume offline during convertROtoRW
14127 f16d40ad2 vos: Print "done" in non-verbose 'vos remsite'
13251 8375a7f7d volser: warn if older version of volume is restored
13252 89b50fdec volser: add more logs for failures during restore
13272 02dede5d4 Log binding ip address and port during startup
13911 042f809cc warn when starting without keys
13867 fe6798d0d SOLARIS: add autoconfig support for Studio 12.6
14117 8ae4531c5 build: remove unused LINUX_PKGREL from configure.ac
14118 30a47c328 redhat: fix rpmbuild warnings
13177 fa55a3fe7 doc: the last partition name is /vicepiu

* Ben will ask Tim if he is willing and able to pullup the FBSD
  changes for 1.8.x.

* Additional candidates may include the 'bulkstat-vcache-pressure'
  topic recently merged on master.

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

* Ben continues to review gerrits with at least one +1. Gerrit's
  without an existing +1 are for the time being de-prioritized.

* Mike to update the commit message for
  14266 ("redhat: Add make to dkms-openafs requirements")


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

* Ben will be working on migrating servers to the new RHEL system at
  MIT, since the current RHEL6 host will be eol this fall.

* Buildbot: Ansible playbooks are available now for the master and to create
  new buildbot workers.  https://github.com/openafs-contrib/afsbotcfg

Patches
=======

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

14269 facff58b84 LINUX 5.8: use lru_cache_add
14268 335f37be13 LINUX 5.8: do not set name field in backing_dev_info
14267 d7fc5bf9bf LINUX 5.8: Replace kernel_setsockopt with new funcs
14130 0f67e733e8 LINUX: Include linux/time.h for linux/errqueue.h
14232 5a14bd0abe vol: Fix format-truncation warning with gcc-10.1
14226 d5fc5283e9 afsmonitor: remove unused LWP_WaitProcess
14217 a2eec64374 Avoid duplicate definitions of globals
14140 278592ef2d uss: more gcc9 truncation warning appeasement
14105 ff07fa706e tests: do not resolve addresses in vos/vl test
14253 46a364bef0 Make OpenAFS 1.8.6
14225 7cd24908de Make OpenAFS 1.8.6pre3
14224 4ad34ee8ca Update NEWS for OpenAFS 1.8.6pre3

Recently merged onto branch 'master':

14214 d231134aad auth: Avoid cellconfig.c stdio renaming
14254 cd65475e95 afs: Let afs_ShakeLooseVCaches run longer
13256 9ff45e73cf afs: Skip bulkstat if stat cache looks full
13255 0532f917f2 afs: Log warning when we detect too many vcaches
14256 42fb8786a8 viced: propagate return from CleanupTimedOutCallBacks_r
14252 f9d20c631d LINUX: Close cacheFp if no ->readpage in fastpath
14242 af73b9a3b1 LINUX: Don't panic on some file open errors
14241 d2d27f975d afs: Avoid panics on failed return from afs_CFileOpen
14249 7d85ce221d LINUX 5.8: use lru_cache_add
14265 ae9ea8da69 Recode a couple files from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8
13253 ba8b92401b afs: Bound afs_DoBulkStat dir scan
12656 6c808e05ad afs: Avoid needless W-locks for afs_FindVCache
14239 e44d6441c8 util: Handle serverLogMutex lock across forks
13254 19cd454f11 afs: Split out bulkstat conditions into a function
12655 a05d5b7503 afs: Change VerifyVCache2 calls to VerifyVCache
14250 7c9fb44557 LINUX: replace BUG() call with osi_Panic() in osi_linux_free
14248 d8ec294534 LINUX 5.8: do not set name field in backing_dev_info
14247 c48072b980 LINUX 5.8: Replace kernel_setsockopt with new funcs
14246 cbc5c4b51f tests: Modernize writekeyfile.c
14244 22a66e7b7e tests: Use usleep instead of nanosleep
14243 5f4a681eeb tests: Emulate mkdtemp when not available
14150 188ca8bf52 make-release: Run git describe once
14115 d0753c0ace make-release: Create output directory if needed

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>