LWG Minutes 2016-10-05

Attendance

Cray: Cory Spitz, Ben Evans, Chris Horn
ORNL: Sarp Oral, James Simmons
Indiana: Ken Rawlings
Intel: Joe Gmitter, Andreas Dilger, Peter Jones

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Minutes

2.9 Release Status/Update
Peter

• The number of blockers is slightly up from last week, however, some are just interop issues due to recent landings.
• The largest item to close out on is SSK development. There have been a number of suggestions for implementation change made by Intel security experts. Those changes have been made and are queued up for testing and landing.
• Anything else to report from the community?
  • No word of any other focused 2.9 testing by the community due to other priorities.

2.10 Release Update
Peter

• Once we branch when reaching code freeze for 2.9, we can begin looking at 2.10 landings.
• There is a feature test plan template that cased be used for feature development in the 2.10 cycle.

Upstream Lustre Client
James

• The 4.9 release is going to be a 2.7 client equivalent. There was ~120 patch delta between 2.6 to 2.7.
• After the next merge window James is looking to try out 2.8 patches. James has had a rough look at ~1/4 of the code and there are ~40 patches thus far that will be needed.
• Will the kernel go to 4.10 numbering after 4.9?
  • James: I believe that it will.

lustre.org
Ken

• The Mediawiki upgrade is occurring.
• We are getting close on the old wiki migration.
• There are about 70 old architecture documents and there is uncertainty about how to handle them. The current plan is to preserve them as static pages.
  • Peter - I would be concerned about having stale references on the architecture page, but agree that we should keep it available. Perhaps the creation of a historical architecture documents area would be appropriate to retain the documents, but with a warning that data may be stale.
    • All present agree.

Other Business

• Sarp: organizational changes in OpenSFS
  • We are now officially operating under a new set of bylaws and a new board composition.
  • The new board consists only of Lustre users (no vendors).
  • Sarp has accepted a role on the board and, therefore, is stepping away from the LWG co-chair role.
  • Dustin Leverman of ORNL will be taking on the co-char role as Sarp’s replacement.
  • A “save the date” announcement will be coming soon for LUG. The event will be hosted by Indiana University this year. More details to come in the announcement.
  • A reminder that the OpenSFS board meetings are open to the public and anyone can attend that is interested.

Next meeting will be on 2016-10-19