October 7, 2021

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Attendees

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

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Agenda

1. CI Status
2. Test Development
3. Any other business

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Minutes

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* UNH Community Lab had an infrastructure failure on September 27, caused by a failed update to the Jenkins server that is responsible for the automation of testing.  This was fixed on October 3.  System is running now and jobs largely are caught up.  If a patch needs to be retested, please let us know.
   * Request to announce upgrades to the community prior to deployment.
   * Request to get monitoring / notification systems in place, to send automated notifications to the community.
   * Request to send out the post mortem review to the ci mailing.
* Automated container image refresh (include ABI reference handling) is now in place, this ensures unit testing is run in current / updated OS environments.  Current plan is to refresh the images on a monthly basis, likely the first Monday of the month, or similar.
* Dashboard update will be released in the near future (likely next week) to add a new tab to show “periodic” testing.  These are the test runs for the next repos and the LTS branches.  This will give an easy view for maintainers (i.e. filter by their branch, etc.).
* One fix for FreeBSD 13.0 unit tests has been completed, still one other blocking issue to enable unit testing in FreeBSD 13.0.
* Current work items:
   * Develop testing harness for FIPS (i.e. integrate with NIST systems).
   * Develop DTS vertIO testing into the lab, and release formal definition of the VM needed for this test.
   * Continue work to deploy code analysis tools (asan, sonarcloud, etc).
* Need to check the status of the arm unit testing and follow up with David Marchand.
* David Marchand started working on opening Bugzillia tickets for ASAN issues: https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[asan]

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Intel Lab

* Holiday this week in China.

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Github Actions / OBS

* Github Actions (zero-day robot) had an outage caused by a hardware failure. This has been resolved and things should also be running normally now.
* OBS Support, Aaron Conole sent some feedback on the scripts, should be the final rounds of review for OBS scripts, which should come online in the next two weeks.  Logs are downloaded and sent as part of the email (they will be larger).  Plan is to key an eye on things for email sizes and storage, etc.
* No word yet on the arm application, which will enable access to arm hardware that is being hosted remotely. Aaron will check on the progress and report back.

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Test Development

* DTS Improvements WG presented initial outcomes and proposed a plan to the techboard, for the strategy to expand requirements on test development (i.e. new features must come with tests).
* DTS improvements / action items captured here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_Y3Ph1sVptYs6YjOxkUI8rVzrPFGpTZzd75gkpgIXY/edit#gid=1128536548
* Next Steps is to assign / collect volunteers for the tasks (see above excel sheet).
* Techboard has a couple of decision points related to the DTS work (expected during the next meeting, October 20, 2021).
* Going forward, once work is started, this meeting (Community CI) would oversee the DTS updates and maintenance.

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Any other business
* Next Meeting: October 21, 2021


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Lincoln Lavoie
Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
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