2020-09-01 TWS Minutes

Zoom Bridge: https://zoom.us/j/908826213 || Meeting ID: 908 826 213  ||  Recording Repository 

Attendees & Representation

Casey Cain Nagendra Prasath Maynattamai Prem Chandran Sai Pujita T Alexandre Levine Kiran KN Subramanian M Yuvaraja Mariappan Stephen Moore Daniel Pono Takamori Prabhjot Singh SethiEdward TingHerakliusz Lipiec Jared Linley Sukhdev KapurSoujanya R MSanju Abraham

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Show the Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing, Roll Call, Action Items
• General Topics
  • Blueprint Discussion
    • R21.05 Release Overview
  • Virtual Technical Event

    • Register Here

    • Topic Proposals

• Any Other Topics
  • Does TF recommend to have a JIRA ID for each and every contribution?

Minutes

Blueprint Discussions

• Casey Cain talked about the need to migrate blueprint discussions to the wiki for further collaboration. 
• Discussion about the future releases of TF.
  • The TF release currently is using the YY.MM release naming structure and is "upstream" of the Contrail release.
  • The release management needs to be completed and followed for the community.
  • Once the blueprints and the Projects/Modules/Components are migrated to the community Jira it will be easier to align the release process.

Virtual Technical Event

• 13 Oct 2020 - 15 Oct 2020 
  

  • Register Here

  • Topic Proposals

    • Topics due date not yet set, but likely due by the end of September.
  • If you're interested in participating in the planning committed, please let Casey Cain know.
    • You can also join the lfn-vtec@lists.lfnetworking.org mailing list.
• Casey Cain talked about the topics that seem to make sense for the Virtual Technical Event
  
  • Sukhdev Kapur suggested that a vendor may want to come and talk about their use case.
  • This would be a good opportunity to discuss the release process and governance structure of Tungsten Fabric
  • Prabhjot Singh Sethi working to see if there is some more information to share around ONAP/Airship integrations.
  • Prabhjot Singh Sethi Suggested another topic around Segmented routing with TF.
    • Sukhdev Kapur thinks that's a great topic and will try to find someone from Juniper to co-host.
  • Kiran KN looking to present information on vRouter.
  • Stephen Moore suggested some topics around performance improvements.

Repo Migration status

• Still waiting on the final 20.08 testing.  The expected GA state is 17 Sept 2020 and then it will take approx another week for the migration. 
• There is a lot of activity on the controller repo and working to keep code stability is paramount.  
• Daniel Pono Takamori talked about migration to the tungsten gerrit and community code review.
  • Low activity repos should start their migration to the community gerrit.
  • Need to address contributor groups and permissions.
  • CI requirements need to be addressed to support the migration to the gerrit.tungsten.io

Action items