[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS Release Team weekly meeting

Date: February 29, 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
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* No new issues raised for 1.8.11pre1. Ben plans to publish 1.8.11 (final) this
  week.

* Ben reported he is halfway through reviewing the linux-6.8 patches.

* Cheyenne submitted 15668, a fix for the "weak attribute" issue on Debian 12
  on arm64.  The issue was reported on openafs IRC last week.  The fix is
  currently not considered a blocker for the 1.8.11 release, but should
  be targeted for the next release.

* Mark requested the "afs-dir-pkg" topic be added to the 1.8 wishlist The
  patches have already been merged on master. This change removes an assertion
  panic on a dcache write failure.

* Mike reported we currently have debian 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 buildbot
  builders. Discussion on retiring the EOL'd 8 and 9 builders. Ben does not
  object to retiring the debian 8 and 9 builders.


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

Updated for 'openafs-stable-1_8_x' branch since 2024-02-23:

15638 roken: Use srcdir for roken-post.h

Merged onto 'master' branch since 2024-02-23:

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
15643 afs: Add afs_xioctl prototyes to afs_prototypes.h
15667 packaging: Remove '--with bos-restricted' option from RedHat spec file
15666 cf: Remove obsolete comment "Fast restart"

Updated for 'master' branch since 2024-02-23:

15669 Linux: Cleanup preproc statements in osi_groups.c
15668 Linux: Remove weak attribute for key_type_keyring
15050 cf: Fail configure --enable-kernel-module on missing Linux headers
12744 Do not merge: Check buildbot verification
15628 CODING: expand GNU indent options in prose
15629 CODING: discuss indentation for non-C files
15610 CODING: general tidying
15627 CODING: clean up initial section
15611 CODING: add code review guidelines
15608 rx: Print free and allocated counters as unsigned values
15394 macOS: Set parent of volume root vnodes correctly
15492 Add function comment for afs_SetParent()
15631 rxgen: Declare generated PKG_OpCodeStats()
15651 afs: Add prototypes for roken strlcpy/strlcat