March 2, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Brandon Lo
3. Aaron Conole
4. Liang-min "Larry" Wang
5. Michael Santana
6. Lijaun Tu

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Agenda

1. General Announcements
2. CI Status
3. Test Development
4. Any other business

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Minutes

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General Announcements

* Nothing specific for this meeting

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Working on deploying test coverage measurements (lcov / gcov) for the unit testing. First need to get this running stable within the test, then work on a solution to parse / store metrics to track over time.
* FIPS work is continuing, working with members from Intel to get all other algorithms working with the ACVP API.
* RTE Flow & VirtIO should be deployed.
   * VirtIO can only be run on the Intel NIC x86_64 systems until DTS upgrades generalize the required test topology.
   * RTE Flow is running periodically, until some failures can be addressed. Emails are being sent to RTE flow maintainers.
* SOW for 2022 is going to the governing board for final review on March 8.

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Intel Lab

* Removed the icc_build for cntx modules in the CI.
* Found some issues with patches that were missing the Series ID.  
   * Seems like there might be a bug in patchworks.
   * An Example: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220217150239.69876-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/
   * It seems like, without the Series ID, all testing and checks are missing the patch, including the check patch scripts.  
   * Lincoln to reach out to Ali Alnubani about the issue, will copy Lijuan and Aaron.
* Around the RC1, there will be a lot of patches to be tested / queued.  Intel is receiving a 502 error from the server sometimes (fairly frequently).  
   * May be caused by polling vs event subscription.  Can try to lower the frequency or change the back off time.
   * Aaron confirmed the github action scripts see that occur sometimes and have a recovery built into wait and then try again.

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Github Actions & OBS

* No updates, maintainers tied up in other products for the time-being.

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Test Development

* DTS improvements work is still ongoing, aiming to migrate DTS test suite into the DPDK repo for the 22.07 release
* Work is in progress to fix test suites that directly modify DPDK source code before compile / test run.
* Working on tool chains for developers, including lint and static analysis for python (DTS’ language).
* Dropping / removing redundant test suites (there was an ABI test and some calls to unit testing).
* Next Meeting: March 9, 2022
   * https://armltd.zoom.us/j/97503259680?pwd=VVlmWnlnTXJkVGkwR2JOU3R3b3Vndz09&from=addon
* Notes:
   * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E2mkTHNQ5vyln1JvnJTil15cjacUTXP7LXb9K960Vxs/edit#heading=h.12ft7412ly1n

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Any other business

* Next Meeting: March 17, 2022
   * Note, Lincoln will be on vacation during this week
   * Aaron will be chairing the meeting.