2020-08-04 Kernel Call Meeting Minutes

Date & Time

Auguest 4th, 2020; 9am PST

Patches:

NETCONF-689: Extend Websocket streams for data-less notificationsResolved is in review, hoping to get data-less notifications.
- patch is here
- we need documentation for these options like leaf-node-only is there (although that is in the controller guide)
- we should move the leaf-node-only docs from the controller guide to the netconf guide
- actually first work will put dataless notif work in controller guide and new work will move all of that to netconf
https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/c/netconf/+/89870 is still under review and will likely be 2-3 weeks before Robert can
look at it.

Misc:

@Robert Varga sent a technical debt report and seems that most of the work is in genius, openflowplugin and serviceutils
- seems that since the last report, BGPCEP has been cleaned up quite a bit
- essentially core ODL projects seem pretty well covered, but not our applications. there is a pretty wide gap.
- @Robert Varga does have some OFP that need to be looked at.
- it will get worse before it gets better because of GENIUS-289
Lots of projects JIRA are not in a good state
- example: genius Jira still shows neon as unreleased
- creating a release checklist that we can enforce as a TSC like marking some version as released, making sure config
  for the project is correct (e.g., proper assignment of new issues), are release notes there, etc.
Mg2 regression is still there and not going to get fixed any time soon.
- We can release with this scale regression for now and hopefully fix it in SR3
- the job needs to be understood a little better. even in the passing jobs there are device disconnects
- one improvement to the job could be to grep the logs for device disconnects which will probably find
  failures at a much lower rate (grep for "inerrupted by timeout exception")
- seems like there are a LOT less device disconnects in SR1 (Robert saw 6 vs thousands in SR2)
  - maybe using different versions of sshd is causing this (look for the shaded sshd jar)

@JamO Luhrsen to ask for technical debt report to be a topic on the TSC in two weeks
@Robert Varga to draft some list of concrete items that we can check per-project at the end of a release to make sure we are keeping projects up to speed
@JamO Luhrsen to move the leaf-node-only docs from controller project to netconf project. There is a full restconf guide in controller that can probably be
moved. Need a JIRA to do this work.
@JamO Luhrsen to try to bump sshd versions back/forth to see if it helps the scale regression