May 12, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Aaron Conole
3. David Marchand
4. Juraj Linkeš
5. Michael Santana
6. Lijuan 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

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Still working to bring the new arm / Ampere systems online, stability issues in the tester server traced to a failing RAID controller, working with the arm team to get this through the RMA process.
* This week (May 9 & May 16) are finals, so will have slower progress on new items, then will transition to summer time (full-time) hours for the team.
* Fixed an issue with the ABI tests failing (runners were low on disk space).
* Working to bring the Broadcom NICs back online for DTS functional / performance testing, on the new hardware.  OSed is installed, working to get DTS installed and running properly.
* Unit testing on Alpine Linux is fixed (22.03 has the fixes), need to close: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756 Need to get this enabled to report upstream to patchworks.
* Windows unit testing should be coming online as soon as possible, as upstream / mainline DPDK now supports running the tests. Unit testing needs to be excluded from LTS testing for now (i.e. older DPDK branches will not run).
* Windows compile runs have seen a couple of random failures, where the process seems to end / exit before the actual meson compile starts (log just ends).

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Intel Lab

* Updating the test beds for the 22.07 release.  Found an issue with compiling the latest, for Ubuntu 22.04, because of libssl-dev errors. That’s been disabled for the time being. This needs to be reported up to the dpdk bugzillia.  

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Github Actions / OBS

* Redhat needs to plan for an upgrade of the zero-day robot, which will create a little down-time / gap in the testing.  Aaron will send out notices before the actual work begins.
* Github actions infrastructure had an outage, caused by changes on their (Github) systems.  Aaron and team had deployed a work around, but they would like to “roll back” to the “correct” code.  They’ll leave some of the work around code in place (future protections).
* Planning to drop Travis CI from the main branch configurations, as it’s no longer being well maintained / used at this time.
* Probably going to drop efforts on OBS, and focus on working through the Github Actions infrastructure, as they are having success adding different containers / OSes through this setup.

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Test Development

* DTS WG Meeting Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E2mkTHNQ5vyln1JvnJTil15cjacUTXP7LXb9K960Vxs/edit
* Still working on creating / reviewing the first patch series to submit to the dpdk main repos.
* Some recent patches to DTS are still submitting test case code that modifies the DPDK main source.  The teams all previously agreed this approach should not be used and work is already started to “undo” past tests that used this approach.  

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Any other business

* Next Meeting: May 26, 2022
* Plans for the DPDK User Space Summit in September?  Aiming to have a good CI “presence” during the event.