These are the release-team meeting minutes. Sorry for the bad subject.
If you want to help the 1.6.7 release along, reviewing the changes already in
gerrit for 1_6_x is a great way of doing this, as well as commenting on what's
foreseen to go in.
Stephan
On Jan 30, 2014, at 20:23 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Log:
> http://conference.openafs.org/[email protected]/2014-01-29.txt
>
> Participants:
>
> * Andrew Deason
> * Derrick Brashear
> * Marc Dionne
> * Mike Meffie
> * Stephan Wiesand
>
> The meeting was all about 1.6.7.
>
> == Queuing changes in gerrit ==
>
> Stephan would like to avoid the long gerrit backlog and resulting need for
> many rebases we had for 1.6.6. Before pulling up a new change, please check
> whether it touches the same files as others already pushed to the 1_6_x
> branch. In such cases, it's more helpful to help getting the older changes
> reviewed and thus either merged or fixed or abandoned than to pull up more
> changes of which it's already clear that they'll have to be rebased later.
>
> We already have a few such cases.
>
> == Proposed items for 1.6.7 ==
>
> === Old items revisited ===
>
> Gerrit 2984 (not yet pulled up) + 6266 implement a feature allowing to
> interrupt clients accessing volumes the fileserver is trying to take offline.
> This was discussed several times since 1.6.2 and not considered quite ready,
> but now the feature has seen real life use and Andrew is more comfortable
> with it.
>
> Another feature under discussion since 1.6.2 is making the client give up
> callbacks on shutdown. The benefit is obvious, and the Windows client has
> been doing this for years, but it's known to kill servers older than 1.4.6
> and there are objections to adding the feature in the stable series without a
> switch allowing to disable it. Andrew would like the switch to be per cell
> (maybe extending "fs setcell") rather than global, and this isn't likely to
> be implemented anytime soon.
>
> === New or not even yet on master ===
>
> Marc is working on a change which may help the getcwd ENOENT problem (see RT
> #131780 and references therein). Should be in gerrit soon. [update:
> http://gerrit.openafs.org/10774 ]
>
> Andrew implemented gerrit 10773 which should help the "no buffer space
> available" problem (see
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2013-July/039706.html and
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2013-October/040178.html ).
>
> Mike has been working on parallel build fixes (see
> http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,project:openafs+branch:master+topic:parallel-make,n,z
> ).
>
> Andrew proposes these:
>
> 10214 namei: Ignore misplaced files (approved but not merged)
> 10322 salvager: Handle multiple/inconsistent linktables
>
> === Accepted on master, to be pulled up ===
>
> Andrew proposes:
>
> 10634 afs: Treat vc_error as a CheckCode-translated code
>
> === Pulled up to 1_6_x, to be reviewed ==
>
> Ben's changes to allow using the OS X buildbot slave for 1_6_x too:
> http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,project:openafs+branch:openafs-stable-1_6_x+topic:mavericks,n,z
> Many were merged, but some need more discussion or maybe even more work.
>
> Miscellaneous other changes:
> 10772 vol: Nuke parent vol special inodes
> 10771 salvager: Ignore linktable-only RW volumes
> 10770 namei: Set inconsistent linktable linkCount to 0
> 10769 salvager: Fix in-memory invalid linktable counts
> 10759 viced: Avoid issuing redundant TMAY requests
> 10758 viced: Move host quota calculation
> 10757 viced: Improve client error log messages
> 10756 viced: Improve CallPreamble error messages
> 10755 viced: Avoid endless BCB loop
> 10603 cellconfig: Do not use 'long' for dbserver IPs
> 10598 LINUX: Use sock_create_kern where available
--
Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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