2020-12-03 TSC Minutes

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Attendees & Representation

TSC Members and Project representatives should mark their attendance below

X = Present | P = Proxy  (Indicate below table with @name for @name

LF Staff: Casey Cain

Others: Adam Grochowski James Kelly @Vikram Singh DW Talton Alexandre Levine Mahesh Sivakumar

Agenda

• Start the Recording
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  • Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing, Roll Call, Action Items (5 Minutes)
• General Topics
  • TSC Membership & Chair
  • Milestone Status
  • Gerrit Status
  • Documentation Update Szymon Golebiewski
  • Kubernetes discussion James Kelly
  • Developer & Testing Form 01 Feb 2021 - 04 Feb 2021 
    • Registration
    • Topic Proposals
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

TSC Membership & Chair

• Prabhjot Singh Sethi Prabhjot announced he is leaving ATS and stepping out of the TF chairman seat 
  • Prabhjot has confirmed that he will still be around the community.
• Prabhjot Singh SethiATS has closed some of it's operations.  They have not confirmed if they will be stepping back from the TF community at this time.
• Casey Cain noted that with the new governance we have 10 seats allocated and only 6 seats are filled with no TSC Chair.
  • We need to appoint additional people to TSC. Currently, TSC has 6 out of 10 members.
  • New election will be held at February but maybe we should move that to the second week of January
  • proposal to have a verbal agreement from the remaining 6 TSC members to have an interim TSC chairman for now - discuss on discussion mailing lists
• Casey Cain  said we need to accomplish several goals to become officially tech project: among others migrate to TF infrastructure

Milestone Status

• Marek Chwal Most projects are in M4.  However, not all documentation is available to the community, but at least we have references so we can ask for details and check/approve release candidates
  • Need references, blueprints and release plan to be verified by stakeholders and an update sent to the mailing list.
  • New release mailing list for tracking the release  tf-release@lists.tungsten.io
    • Stakeholders, please join the mailing list here.

Docs Update

• Need help with screenshots updated for the documentation.  I will send an update to the mailing list with further details.
• Should have proper documentation for the next release!

Gerrit Migration status

• DW Talton Still need the list of groups and users so that we can complete the migration
  • After discussion, James will respond to the mailing list and DW with who has admin access to the Juniper Gerrit platform

Kubernetes discussion

• James Kelly has moved from the marketing team to the Juniper Product lead.  He is excited to work with the TF community.
  • Working internally to shift development processes to the upstream community to reduce the duplication of work within the Juniper engineering team.
  • Internally at Juniper, we are adjusting our strategies to be better open source citizens. 
  • We are advocating for a shift to K8-Native.  We would like to see TF shift from being a layer on top of the cloud to something that runs inside of Kubernetes. 
  • We are also recommending that we have an optional Prometheus native support for analytics and telemetry federation.
  • We want to continue to support OpenStack and refine legacy components. 
• James Kelly recommended that we realign to an open GUI and shift away from Contrail Command.
  • Possibly even extend the Kubernetes.
• James Kelly if we align more to K8's we have an opportunity to change the engineering culture at Juniper to be more aligned to the Open Source.
  • We could start a new repository to support the effort
• There is still a need to identify how to support service mesh and other important areas of TF.

Developer & Testing Forum

• Registration
• Topic Proposals
• Dates: 
  • 01 Feb 2021 - 04 Feb 2021 
  • Proposals are due by 15 Jan 2021 
  • Schedule to be announced by22 Jan 2021 
• Casey Cain asks that you submit your topics as soon as possible. 

Action items

• James Kellyto attach slides from his presentation to the minutes and start a mailing list thread to continue the discussion of deeper Kubernetes integration 03 Dec 2020