[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

[Michael Meffie]

OpenAFS release team weekly meeting

Date: Jan 19, 2018
Participants:
* Stephan Wiesand (Release Manager 1.6)
* Ben Kaduk (Release Manager 1.8)
* Michael Meffie
* Marcio Barbosa

The weekly release team meetings are held on Fridays at 14:00 GMT on jabber
(xmpp) in release-***@conference.openafs.org. Please request login
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1.6.x stable series
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1.6.22.2
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Expect to release 1.6.22.2 early next week.

- macos high sierra support
topic:highsierra

12833 macos: make the OpenAFS client aware of APFS
12832 macos: packaging support for MacOS X 10.13
12831 macos: add support for MacOS 10.13

- linux 4.15 support
topic:Linux-4.15

12834 Linux: use plain page_cache_alloc
12835 Linux 4.15: check for 2nd argument to pagevec_init

- changes to address getcwd() issues on RHEL7.4
topic:RH74_shakeloose_refactor

12859 LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in osi_TryEvictDentries
12860 LINUX: Avoid d_invalidate() during afs_ShakeLooseVCaches()
12858 LINUX: consolidate duplicate code in canonical_dentry
12857 LINUX: add afs_d_alias_lock & _unlock compat wrappers
12856 LINUX: create afs_linux_dget() compat wrapper
12855 Revert "LINUX: do not use d_invalidate to evict dentries"
12854 Revert "LINUX: eliminate unused variable warning"

1.6.23pre1
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Planning to release 1.6.23pre1 next week;

Candidates for 1.6.23 are gerrits >= 12645 listed under

https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/q/status:open+project:openafs+branch:openafs-stable-1_6_x

2 remaining ubik fixes are to be backported to 1.8.x/1.6.x.

12716 ubik: update ubik_dbVersion during SDISK_SendFile
12640 ubik: check if epoch is sane before db relabel


1.8.x series
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Mike to backported the autoconf refactor.
Staged for pre5 (from last week's notes)
- spec file fixes
- autoconf refactor
- Andrew's deadlock avoidance in check_Dentry_race (12868),
- ubik write fail bug fix (12716)
- freebsd sysname/OS support updates


master
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Recently merged

12862 FBSD: catch up to missing sysnames
12640 ubik: check if epoch is sane before db relabel
12716 ubik: update ubik_dbVersion during SDISK_SendFile

Review discussions

12680 autoconf: detect ctf-tools and add ctf to libafs