02-09-2022 TSC Meeting Minutes

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LF Staff: @LJ Illuzzi

Agenda

• LF Antitrust Policy

• Meeting note taker

• Welcome to new attendees

• eBPF Package Repository proposal

• LFN Induction

  • Material development in progress through 02/22. Community input is required: LFN Induction Slide Deck - Draft

  • Next review is 02/09 during TSC meeting (02/08 meeting is canceled)

• Developer & Testing Forum (tentative) - March 2022 

• Cloud Native eBPF Day Europe - May 2022 (CFP deadline Feb 21)? Call For Proposals (CFP) | Linux Foundation Events

• General Topics (cover as needed)

  • Use Cases

  • Roadmap

  • Project structure

    • Governance

    • Technical Steering Committee

• Versioning and release doc - Santhosh

  • Release process document by sanfern · Pull Request #13 · l3af-project/l3af-arch (github.com)

Minutes/Updates

• eBPF Package Repository proposal

  • Working on it in different meeting

• LFN induction

  • Want to have slide deck complete by Feb 23

  • Get to the LFN tech advisory

  • Review March 9(?)

  • March 16 on agenda for approval

  • Discussion around licensing

  • Private repos → public (before 23rd)

    • Flow exporter

    • Other 2 might take longer

  • High level goals for cross-project interaction

  • Project Governance

    • Contributing file and procedures doc

    • DCO or CLA set up in GitHub?

      • Need to have it

      • I believe you go to https://github.com/apps/dco and start with the Configure button on top right.

      • See https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/dco for the DCO setup steps

    • DCO runs on a branch. Cannot merge without signing DCO

  • L3AF project scope - needs some cleanup

  • Tech focus

    • Technical merit and fit within the LFN umbrella

      • Cover lower level hooks, network specific use cases that can be achieved

        • Also fits into cross-community colab

    • Governance - on par with where we should be

• Cloud Native eBPF day

  • Good opportunity to evangelize for the L3AF project

  • L3AF session?

• Release Process document

  • How do you track releases

  • Versions

  • What is a stable release

  • What about backports?

  • Post-release activities

  • Release tracking will be done through GitHub

  • We can start releases with whatever semantic we decide upon

    • Major.minor.patch

    • No alpha, only numbers

    • Just follow the convention

    • 10-12 week release cycle

  • Stable release

    • Maintenance window for previous release

      • ~6-12 months?

      • Extended maintenance?

    • Need a release manager(?)

  • Backports

    • Bugs in maintenance window

      • Will be decided by L3AF community

      • approval of the release manager(?)

        • What is the responsibility of the release manager?

      • code owners(?)

    • Keep it at the code owners for now

      • Different code owners for areas?

      • Every file has a code owner?

      • Need unanimous agreement.

    • Useful to have a link to a place to say who is the current release manager, code owners

      • How do you do the request?

    • Some projects have list of aliases, some have a single alias, etc.

• Action items from last meeting

  • Timeout issue

    • have a repo

    • ran through steps

    • updated comments

  • issue should be resolved

  • XDP build steps added

  • code owners added

  • Contrib doc added

  • licensing still open MIT (permissive) instead of GPL (non-permissive)

Action Items

Future Agenda Items