Community CI Meeting Minutes - December 12, 2024

[Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>]

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December 12, 2024
Attendees
1. Patrick Robb
2. Aaron Conole
3. Paul Szczepanek
4. Luca Vizzarro

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Dts roadmap:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doTZOOpkv4D5P2w6K7fEJpa_CjzrlMl3mCeDBWtxnko/edit?tab=t.0
* AWS:
   * They have confirmed that AWS ARM Graviton systems will be included in
CI testing
* Aaron: It would be ideal if we could update some of the scripts in
dpdk-ci repo such that the systems being brought over across labs are more
uniform
   * Polling patchwork is one example of a script requiring an update

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* ABI Testing: UNH is building new container images now.
   * Libabigail 2.6 should be used going forward, which comes with a new
dependency “libxxhash”
* Marvell SDK 12: We are still having trouble setting up the Marvell crypto
devices, so we are upgrading to the latest SDK and reflashing the board.
* Maintenance:
   * Migrating and upgrading our Jenkins instance next Monday at 15:00 UTC
- downtime expected to be a few hours.
* Working on turning on new DTS in CI testing currently.
* “Retest Button” For periodic testing is in code review now, expected to
be available on the DPDK Dashboard next week.
* Dpdk-ci repo:
   * Need a review and merge of the create_series_artifact.py patch which
adds the meson check script.

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Intel Lab
* None

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Github Actions
* None

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Loongarch Lab
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Patrick will do a review for the Ruff patch
* Paramiko:
   * bug has been resolved by Nick, by setting a while loop in which we
wait for the expected prompt to enter the paramiko buffer.
   * There is another Paramiko race condition in which a file read/write
error bubbles up at the conclusion of the DTS execution (may be a race
condition). This does not affect the testrun but it pollutes the logs, so
we should investigate this during the 25.03 cycle.
* Pending patches from the previous release: Work to review and merge Ruff
very quickly, then rebase all the old patches (in groups) and quickly merge
those groups.
   * Will rebase and review 1 old patchseries per developer per week in
December/January, and we should be
* Scapy/MyPy updates:
   * The new Scapy version includes better type support - we will update
within the 25.03 cycle.
* Poetry.lock file is committed to the repo (it is not included in the
.gitignore). After some discussion we have confirmed that this is correct,
and that maintainers should periodically update the poetry.lock file in the
remote repo.
   * Lock file makes dependency resolution faster
   * Lock file provides a universal lock of dependencies across python
versions, across time

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Any other business
* Next Meeting Jan 16, 2024

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