OPNFV TSC Meeting 2020-11-24

Meeting Admin

• Linux Foundation Anti-trust policy
• Agenda Bashing
• Attendance/Quorum (8/7)
• Approval of Meeting Minutes: OPNFV TSC Meeting 2020-11-17#Minutes and  IRC Meeting Minutes

As agreed on 15 Sep 2020 changes to the minutes may be executed on the Agenda wiki page, with the aid of audio and text transcript available for 1 week.

Announcements !

• Interim TSC Election
  
  • Interim TSC Calendar Election calendar
    

    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/aApoAg

  • 20 Nov 2020 
    • Election results available Friday
    • Nomination period for Anuket TSC chair open 24 Nov 2020  
    • Newly-formed Interim TSC needs to meet quickly to decide procedures for election of TWO Co-Chairs
      • (a proposal exists to categorize the affiliation of each co-chair, which is non-meritocratic; chairs must be objective facilitators of meetings and decisions, and not operate otherwise)
• NEXT vDev and Test Event Feb 1-4, 2021 (no conflicts identified at TAC level)
  

Weekly Technical Meeting Hosts:

Sept - Sridhar Rao Thanks!

Oct - Emma Foley Thanks!

Nov - Georg Kunz

Dec - Lincoln Lavoie

MEC and NFV Plugtest:

https://www.etsi.org/events/1840-nfv-mec-remote-api-plugtests-2021

OPNFV JERMA Release

• Status - PTL stand-up
  
• List of the Integration Projects and Status
  • AIRSHIP - removal of floating IP support in ver 1.8 issue: 2 Functest test cases XX,  – phase 2 integrate with Functest,  - CNTT conformance requires moving to Train Live Migration
    
  • CIRV - RELREQ 5 - should be able to close in a few days testing now (Sridhar)
    
  • VSPERF - RELREQ 6 and 9 nearly complete, Integration with X-testing and Openstack Functest
    
  • SampleVNF - needs to join Pod 18 work
    
• List of the Individual Projects Releasing with OPNFV-JERMA and Status
  
  • AIRSHIP - phase1 missed workaround for Nova instance console issue
    
  • CIRV
  • Doctor
  • Barometer - a few items to get working, but then can
    
  • kuberef - one patch to review, then can merge and stable
    
  • Dovetail
  • FDS - withraw, upstream component not available
    
  • VSPERF
  • SampleVNF
• Monday Tech Discuss on Anuket Release Artifacts
  • Portrayal of Reference Implementation (discussion):
  • Full RI comes AFTER Meld is complete? See artifact discussion
  • 16 Nov 2020 Discussion Notes (with OPNFV-JERMA, CNTT, and Anuket - related discussions)
• How do we characterize the JERMA Release Test Suite?
  • OPNFV provides the building-blocks (tests) for CNTT's RC.
    • Repeatable, consumable, stable.
    • Hand-off OPNFV-JERMA to RC activities and OVP badging (not the same)
    • Main goal OPNFV-JERMA is to work-out Release processes and Release testing, then hand-off to others.
  • More specifically, is JERMA an RC Tech Preview? Prototype? Beta? Experimental?
  • JERMA is the most comprehensive set of tests aligned to the CNTT RA-1 and RC-1. 
  • CNTT determines the definition of Compliance (test cases in RC).
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• How do we evaluate Individual Projects w.r.t. OPNFV-JERMA release?
  • For the individual project: self-defined tests are sufficient for RC0/1 gate
    • There is a Release test plan for every project that is part of OPNFV-JERMA Release
• How do evaluate AIRSHIP delivery w.r.t. CNTT RI ??
  • How is AIRSHIP Project Gated/evaluated as part of the JERMA Release? 
  • For the individual project: self-defined tests are sufficient for RC0/1 gate
    • There is a Release test plan for every project that is part of OPNFV-JERMA Release
    • AIRSHIP's Test Plan
  • A further AIRSHIP Release Gate: Requires RC-conformance tests? Or CNTT RI tests?
  • Or, Is the JERMA Release of AIRSHIP self-gating?
  • Or, is No RI delivered in JERMA - RI not defined - AIRSHIP is an RI Technical Preview only.
• For Reference Compliance (RC) Test Projects (Integration projects)
  • Proposed Gates: install without errors, simple functional tests, success of more advanced features and automated with X-testing
  • Documentation (for third-party users of RD testing)
  • RC test suite is a technical preview of CNTT RC-1
• FINAL JERMA RELEASE GATE:
  • Does the TSC agree that JERMA is a release of OPNFV projects which can be consumed to form the BALDY RC and/or RI?
    • or do we mean to say that OPNFV JERMA IS The RC and the RI ??
  • NEED to follow OPNFV-JERMA Release with RC-1 Baldy Update, add the new tests in the 'how to run the additional RC-1 doc' cookbook (IOW, Baldy RC-1 point release is THE definition of RC for RC-1).
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• Links
  
  • Requirements Work Group
    
  • Jerma release management page
  • JIRA RelMan Issues for each project are published
  • Jira issues assigned to Jerma release
• Mapping Release Requirements into JIRA
• Jerma Release Candidate RC0 scheduled for Nov 17
  
  • Release Management task compliance ~ 61%
    • Waiting on Doctor, Airship, Barometer
  • Release Management Tasks for Release Candidate 0
    • Making sure code is ready for Integration testing
      
      • Close any new High priority bugs
      • Completion of the testing in the test plan cited in the Project release plan (previous documentation)
      • CIRV, AIRSHIP, VSPERF, SampleVNF: contribution to Infrastructure and Integration testing.
    • Gate for RC Tests: Tests in the suite to be deployed automatically, Run to Completion, and produce results
    • Gate for Reference Infrastructure (AIRSHIP and or Kuberef): ? TBD
    • Documentation: for ALL projects, including Self-Release projects
      • Some docs are available:
      • https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/tree/master/doc/ref_cert#testing-cookbooks
• Establish Integration Test Team
  • Members from Installer and Test Projects
  • Issues as of now
• Self-Release projects, as described in the OPNFV JERMA Release process: 
  • What does the TSC expect of these projects?  
  • In the past, when projects did not participate in the OPNFV Release, their documentation was not included in the Release Artifacts.
• Requirements "manifest" for the Release (what is included).
• Meeting Logistics 

Al Morton

David McBride

Sofia Wallin

Partial list of issues discussed:

1. Are the Definitions of Gates clear?
   
   1. Testing of the CNTT-selected RC Test Cases
   2.  projects must pass Gating (s 17)
   3. Gates need to be established, install without errors, simple functional tests, success of more advanced features and automated with X-testing
2. Pre-requisites, include Integration TEST project (Morgan in ONAP), test what OPNFV delivers.
3. OPNFV needs to Release and Support tests that are reliable.
   1. "Establish" items are the key steps for TSC: Requirements Vetting and Integration Test SCs
4. Documentation: Jerma Requirements Working Group Assessment

PDF

 PDF

• Sophia - Plan for Documentation of Jerma Release
  
  • Volunteers Needed to review and update Documentation Templates for JERMA - 2 or 3 people needed.  - No longer needed ???

MELD Topics and status updates

• CNTT Merger and Meld
  
  • Proposal for Interim Meeting Structure (first one, others possible)
    • 90 minute meeting
    • OPNFV Time-slot + 30 minutes
    • 30 minute stand-up for PTLs and WS leads, and others
    • 60 minutes for operational and deeper discussions leading to decisions.
  • Converged work-flow or Tool chain: what do we recommend?
    • under discussion -
    • shift to gitlab is a continuing discussion and evaluation
  • Release Naming -  in 2021?
    • Defer to MELD-ORG or Interim TSC: naming can remain independent.
  • Long live Anuket!
    
    • Interim TSC Structure (discussed at Technical Discussion)
      
    • Input on Mission/Scope
  • Joint 2 hour session between Meld-ORG and Meld-OPS teams
    • TSC Diagram
    • Release Artifacts for Anuket (Trevor's Notes)  Edited on 19 Nov 2020 
  • Interim TSC Calendar Election calendar
    

    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/MZ/MeldOps+2020-10-29+Meeting+notes

Jim Baker

Trevor Cooper

Mark Beierl

Marketing wiki for properties of melded organization: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/MZ/Branding+Whiteboard

Trevor Cooper

Lincoln Lavoie

Gitlab Pilot

• Weekly place holder update
  
  • Highlights from Georg Kunz 's Kuberef talk at Technical event

Trevor Bramwell

Mark Beierl

Georg Kunz

OPNFV Project Reviews

• SampleVNF Reorganizing:  Future Review!

Jim Baker

Status Updates

• OPNFV Linux Foundation Lab (Portland) hardware upgrade status
• LF IT/Infra update: (Aric Gardner, Trevor Bramwell)

Jim Baker
Trevor Bramwell

Future Topics

• Future Topic: upcoming ETSI NFV&MEC Plugtest ~Feb 2021

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