Log: http://conference.openafs.org/[email protected]/2014-04-23.txt
Participants: * Andrew Deason * Ben Kaduk * Daria Brashear * Mike Meffie * Simon Wilkinson * Stephan Wiesand == Linux news == 3.15-rc2 was released. We don't know yet whether we're still good. [Update: we are - thanks Marc] == Problem reports == Linux stack overflows (RT #131831): http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,project:openafs+branch:master+topic:stack-reduction,n,z are making good progress, but are still being worked on on the master branch. No blocker for 1.6.8pre2. Fileserver crash in libkrb5 (RT #131852): Seems to affect at least not all Heimdal versions, and it's unknown which ones. Gerrit 11075 was discussed and updated during the meeting. We won't block 1.6.8pre2 on it. If evidence comes up that the problem is common, we can issue a pre3. [Update: probably more related to platform, environment and Heimdal build rather than Heimdal version. See the RT ticket for details] Transfers stalling for files > 1328 bytes: See https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2014-April/040643.html . Looked like an MTU problem, but that seems uncertain now. Single report (against 1.6.1), not enough data yet. No blocker for 1.6.8pre2. Reading unixusers from /proc on Linux broken (gerrit 11093): Problem introduced a while ago, breaks a debugging aid. Deferred to 1.6.9. cmd.c possible buffer overflow reported on -info: See https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2014-April/040649.html . This is already fixed in 1.6.8pre1 by gerrit 10731, and not believed to have a real security impact. == Pulling up fixes from master == The cmd.c issue was fixed on master by gerrit 7092 (which is probably not applicable to 1.6.x), which is part of a series of clang related fixes (see http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,status:merged+project:openafs+branch:master+topic:clang,n,z ). Stephan brings up the question whether it makes sense to generally pull up such fixes to 1.6.x (as done in http://gerrit.openafs.org/#q,project:openafs+branch:openafs-stable-1_6_x+topic:coverity,n,z ). There seems to be limited enthusiasm for this, but it's probably the right thing to do because it reduces the risk of missing an important fix, reduces the skew between master and stable, and makes it less likely that a new compiler on some platform requires extra work later. == 1.6.8 release == Preliminary pre2 tarballs were uploaded during the meeting. After some positive results from smoke testing by release-team, we'll tag and announce. [Update: done] If it turns out that we have a problem with Linux 3.15, or anything else urgent comes up, we can issue a pre3. Otherwise, this is likely to be the final prerelease. == Testing == Some 10 sites indicated to Andrew that they're willing to run prereleases in a test environment or on a test server in their production environment. That's just what we're asking the community to do every time we (pre-)release, but individual contacts may just work better. Andrew will ask those sites to test 1.6.8pre2 in this sense once it's out. Some sites would appreciate readily usable repositories for prereleases. Stephan will provide those for EL/Fedora [for SUSE, those should already exist too]. Andrew will approach Russ to see what can be done for debian. == Next stable branch(es) == No news. Andrew still volunteers for posting to -info, describing the options and asking for feedback, and he proposes reserving a meeting (maybe the one right after the 1.6.8 release) for this topic because starting a discussion on it after an hour of discussing the daily issues seems not to be working out. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
