[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

Date: February 22, 2024
Participants:
- Stephan Wiesand, OpenAFS Release Manager
- Ben Kaduk
- Cheyenne Wills
- Michael Meffie
- Mark Vitale

The OpenAFS Release Team meetings are held each Thursday at 12:00pm Eastern,
9:00am Pacific on Libera.Chat IRC channel #openafs-releaseteam.

Release team working status is maintained at:

    https://wiki.openafs.org/devel/Whiteboard/

Discussion
==========

* Ben pushed the 1.8.11pre1 announcement to www.openafs.org and announcement
  list.

* Ben pushed changes to the 'make_www_release' script to gerrit.

* Several changes for linux 6.8 support have been merged to the master
  branch, more are in review on gerrit.

* Cheyenne reports the Linux 6.8rc gerrit topic still builds on the current
  Linux rc.

* Mike added new buildbot builders to verify "objdir" style builds on the
  master and stable branches. (Source and build directories are distinct in
  "objdir" style builds.)


Recent Changes
==============

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2024-02-08:

15638 roken: Use srcdir for roken-post.h

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2024-02-08:

15641 afs: Add includes to pick up function prototypes
15622 afs: Declare init_hckernel_mutex()
15621 Linux 6.8: Add function prototypes for krb5
15620 roken: Declare ct_memcmp in hcrypto kernel roken.h
15619 afs: Add declaration for RXAFS_ResidencyCmd()
15640 afs: Remove afs_DbgDisconFiles()
15639 afs: Remove SRXAFSCB_FetchData/StoreData
15618 afs: Remove dummy_PSetAcl()
15617 afs: Remove afs_osi_UnmaskUserLoop()
15616 afs: Remove afs_MemExtendEntry()
15615 afs: Remove DFlushDCache()
15614 cf: Add function prototypes for linux conftest

Updated for 'master' branch since 2024-02-08:

15632 Linux 6.8: use hlist iteration for dentry children
14871 rxgen: Declare generated PKG_TranslateOpCode()
15626 rx: Add static attribute to internal functions
15625 afs: Add static attribute to internal functions
15630 afs: fix 'ops' variable may be used uninitialized
15624 rx: Add function prototypes to rx_prototypes.h
15644 afs: Remove SRXAFSCB* protos from afs_prototypes.h
15642 afs: Move function prototypes into headers
15643 afs: Add afs_xioctl prototyes to afs_prototypes.h
15050 cf: Fail configure --enable-kernel-module on missing Linux headers
15608 rx: Print free and allocated counters as unsigned values
15637 LINUX: Block non-fatal signals when sleeping
14169 LINUX: make afs_osi_TimedSleep uninterruptible again
15636 LINUX: Refactor afs_osi_Sleep
15651 afs: Add prototypes for roken strlcpy/strlcat
15647 packaging: Make client unit start/stop more robust
12744 Do not merge: Check buildbot verification
15646 Linux 6.8: Use roken's strlcpy() in kernel module
15645 Linux 6.8: Remove ctl_table sentinels
15631 rxgen: Declare generated PKG_OpCodeStats()
15611 CODING: add code review guidelines
15634 packaging: Introduce client systemd helper script