[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: May 13, 2021

Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, Release Manager
- Benjamin Kaduk
- Yadavendra Yadav
- Michael Meffie
- Mark Vitale
- Cheyenne Wills

The weekly release team meetings are held on Thursdays 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/

News
====


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

* Cheyenne reports Linux-5.13-rc1+ master and 1.8.x build cleanly
* Stephen plans to merge macOS bigsur patchs for 1.8.x and maybe some
  other stuff already reviewed, update NEWS, for 1.8.8pre1
* FBSD and other changes may have to wait for pre2 or 1.8.9


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

Ben reports he has completed reviews on a number of patchsets currently on
master and has asked for changes or given direction, notably the Cache
Truncation Daemon metrics and the proposed changes for increasing the size of
command line arguments in the bosserver.


Buildbot
========

Gerrit integration is working on the new buildbot master.

Patches
=======

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2021-05-07:

14613 vol: move ih_PkgDefaultsSet check inside ih_PkgDefaults
14614 vol: ensure ih package defaults are set for salvage
14616 afs: free the Buffers array correctly during shutdown
14615 afs: Actually free resources during warm shutdown
14610 afs: afsd -shutdown sets afs_cold_shutdown too soon
14611 afs: remove duplicate declaration for afs_shutdown()
14612 afsd: remove unused variable afs_shutdown
14598 macos: packaging support for MacOS X 11.0
14605 afs: Add AFS_USPC_SHUTDOWN bkg request
14600 macos: delegate sock_* calls to bkg daemons

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2021-05-07:

14622 doc: Look in $srcdir for documentation sources
14592 afs: Assert avc->lock is held in afs_IAS_once
14584 afs: write-lock vcache->lock in afs_InactiveVCache
12182 afs: clarify cold and warm shutdown logic

Updated for 'master' branch since 2021-05-07:

14607 ubik: remove superfluous checks of rx_NewConnection return
14608 ubik: ensure correct election timeout
14621 rx: define constant for default dead time
14577 bozo: Add CreateBnodeV2 and GetInstanceParmV2 RPCs
14200 afs: provide cache eviction statistics
14606 cf: Disable swig if shared libraries are disabled
14199 afs: record afs_CacheTruncateDaemon stats indirectly
14195 Add static assert for size of osi_timeval32_t
14318 tests: Introduce libafstest_common
14317 tests: Introduce 'make check TESTS=test/name'
14547 Remove unused opr/util components
14619 tests: Avoid verbose output for 'make check V=0'
14618 cmd: Allow "--" as an end-of-options delimeter
14620 tests: Introduce afstest_asprintf
14040 tests: Introduce is_command()
14617 Remove rpctestlib
14319 tests: Introduce afstest_*_path()
12744 Test change to check gerrit buildbot integration

-- 
Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>