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