CDWG Minutes 2013-04-24

Agenda

 * 2.4 status updates
 * Plan major thrust areas for CDWG for the coming year
 * 2.5 roadmap discussion (time permitting)

Attendance

 * Chris Morrone (LLNL)
 * Cory Spitz (Cray)
 * Peter Jones (Intel)
 * Nic Henke (Xyratex)
 * John Carrier (Cray)

2.4 status updates
Things going not too bad. 11 blockers, 9 have fixes in flight. Overnight some glitch in results updloading, but things are moving through now.

Note that commit a585b03 "Revert "LU-2459 osd: add LMA incompat flag check" was needed to get tests passing again.

LU-2827 needs some attention if going to land for 2.4.0.

Cray started testing 2.3.64.

Cray suggests LU-1442 should be blocker. New patch and explanation of cause of bug available from Xyratex. Will evaluated for 2.4.0.

CDWG Thrust Area Planning

 * Improvement issue tracking
 * Improve transparency of decision making on issue priority
 * Know which issues will or will not be solved in a release
 * Transparently track landing of bug fixes for every
 * Increase visibility of non-feature work that is outstanding
 * Community Development Tree Contract revisions
 * Send your desired changes NOW!
 * Add maintenance tree funding?
 * Discuss and refine development cadence
 * Documentation effort
 * Lustre Manual
 * In code (doxygen)
 * In tree architecture documentation
 * Discuss/enact OpenSFS hosting of:
 * Lustre releases (e.g. yum repos. Make it easier for people to install lustre.)
 * OpenSFS build system
 * git+gerrit
 * Patch review
 * Establish release criteria (Cory)
 * Put obligation on OpenSFS to be part of the process?
 * Stability testing requirements
 * Performance characterization
 * OpenSFS needs to be more involved in creating the test plan
 * Get developers on the CDWG calls, try to improve transparency of Lustre planning