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)

Minutes

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