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January 9, 2025
Attendees
. Patrick Robb
. Aaron Conole
. Luca Vizzarro
. Dean Marx
. Cody Cheng
. Aaron Conole
. Nicholas Pratte
. Matthew McGovern
. Manit Mahajan

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Happy New Year!
* 25.03 release schedule is:
   * (-rc1): 7 February 2025
   * (-rc2): 28 February 2025
   * (-rc3): 7 March 2025
   * Release: 26 March 2025

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* OvS install now requires python 3.7, which opensuse 15.6 does not ship
with. So, options are to either upgrade python on this test container, or
discontinue the test for this distro.
* Lab Dashboard updates:
   * We are adding a patch series search feature for searching by series
title or series # id. This will deploy before end of week.
   * Working on embedding the code coverage reports in the dashboard
   * Working on embedding the code coverage reports in the dashboard such
that the reports don’t have to be manually downloaded and opened by users
      * We should also begin running the coverage reports on a per series
basis
         * Can produce json output from gcov/lcov, and compare the
“basline” json coverage to a new result
* ABI testing: We have been running ABI tests for 24.11 and main for the
past few weeks, but still need to backfill ABI results for patches
submitted immediately after 24.11 released. We can put these into queue
today.
* The lab will have a little downtime next week for infra maintenance,
which will be announced the day before on the mailing list.

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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
* Series Patrick should review:
   * Dean: queue start stop
   * Nick: ethertype test suite
   * Softnic testsuite
      * V3 is submitted
      * * Perf testing:
   * UNH team has been investigating performance traffic generators
      * Trex
         * Have just been testing the trex api for setting traffic streams,
collecting stats etc.
      * Dperf
      * Need to decide on collecting stats via trex API vs testpmd when
writing the single core forwarding perf test
   * Luca proposes an abstraction for creating files on the DTS nodes, such
that we don’t have to manually create and copy files requires for DTS
testsuites.

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Any other business
* Next Meeting January 23
* Azure:
   * Currently using a “Lisa” test framework for managing nodes and running
some tests
   * Aiming to leverage DTS in the future
   * Can we get 2 nodes on the same l2 networking?
      * Not really on Azure, so we would need to provide support for tests
through l3 routing.