Akraino Upstream Sub-Committee

Meeting logistics:

• Wiki: https://wikilf-akraino.akrainoatlassian.orgnet/wiki/display/AK/Upstream+Sub-committee

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• Time: Nov 30, Dec. 11, Wed. 8 AM - 9 AM Pacific. Every 2 weeks from now on.

• Calendar etc.: https://wikilf-akraino.akrainoatlassian.orgnet/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=612805213667952

Special Meeting May 20, 2021

Agenda:

• Paul gave a brief introduction about O-RAN status
• Nilanjan and Deepak shared a blueprint proposal which will relay on O-RAN code base as the upstream.

Action Items:

• Nilanjan to prepare detail BP plan referring to O-RAN as upstream
• Jim to prepare another meeting with O-RAN for broader collaboration

Biweekly Meeting May 26, 2021

Agenda:

• Akraino and ORAN planning
• Akraino BP with ORAN Upstream

Biweekly Meeting August 19, 2020, 8-9am PST

Agenda:

• Upstream R4 Compliance Planning
• R4 BP review table. Plan to schedule BPs to come over to Upstream meeting for R4 reviews.

Attendance:

TBD

Biweekly Meeting August 5, 2020, 8-9am PST

Agenda:

• Upstream R4 Compliance Planning
• R4 BP review table. Plan to schedule BPs to come over to Upstream meeting for R4 reviews.

Attendance:

• Jim Xu
• Tina Zou
• Swarup Nayak

Biweekly Meeting June 10, 2020, 8-9am PST

Agenda:

• Upstream R3 Release compliance discussion
• R3 Release Upstream process recommendation

Attendance:

• Jim Xu
• Tina
• Swarup Nayak

Biweekly Meeting April 1, 2020, 8-9am PST

Agenda:

• Upstream workflow discussion with BP meeting feedback.
• Community Involvement: Will need to invite CNTT for upstream/downstream collaboration; Need to invite BP PTL.
• Election about co-chair

Attendance:

• Jim Xu
• Tina
• Khemendra Kumar
• Swarup Nayak

Biweekly Meeting (Coming) Feb. 19, 2020, 8-9am PST

Agenda:

• Upstream Workflow Discussion. Presented the draft of the upstream workflow. Will send out for the reviews from Sub-committee, then present to Akraino community/TSC for approval.
• SEBA upstream discussion. Ciprian discussed about SEBA on ARM - porting and upstreaming work#SEBAUpstreamingwork. The current major pending issue is that the SEBA project team might need to add support to Python 3 in order to meet the OpenCord upstream repo requirement. Ciprian and Akraino Upstream Sub-Committee will discuss with Zack/OpenCord to confirm whether this is the only stopper besides normal code patches. Upon confirmation, SEBA/Akraino team will address the stopper and corresponding patches in 1-2 weeks.

Attendance:

• Jim Xu
• Ciprian Barbu (From SEBA project)
• Tina Tsou
• Khemendra Kumar

BiWeekly Meeting Feb. 5, 2020 8-9 AM PST

Agenda:

• Review Upstream Policy
• The value can be provided by Upstream Committee : leverage the experiences from the committee to help projects into stable release.
• Review the upstream matrix. It needs to be updated with recent blueprints and feature projects. The committee will ramp up engagement with project teams. In the coming days, the committee will help in SEBA support.
• Proposal to adding LF Edge projects such as EdgeX into the upstream scope.
• Suggest to add co-chair position to share the load with ramping up efforts.

Attendance:

• Tina Tsou
• Mark Shan
• khemendra kumar
• Jim Xu
• Jane Shen

Mini Summit at San Diego: Aug 19-20, 2019. Future Agenda consideration in R2 time frame, depending on project/blueprint's requirements:

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• Work streams to initiate for the next 6 months:

• Upstream project introduction series

• Best practice with upstream - e.g. JIRA, CI/CD, Conformance

• Upstream project landscape infographics

• Related organizations / communities liaison

• • Exchange series - invite for introduction/liaison presentations

  • E.g. TIP, ONAP, Openstack, K8S, EdgeX, ONF…

  • Prepare a slide deck for Akraino presentation to these groups

• Upstream project introduction series

• Best practice with upstream - e.g. JIRA, CI/CD, Conformance

• Upstream project landscape infographics

• Related organizations / communities liaison

• Anything else

• AOB

#2 December 14, 2018. 8-9 AM Pacific.

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1. Recap of the TSC F2F in Santa Clara, Dec 6-7, 2018.

1. https://wikilf-akraino.akrainoatlassian.orgnet/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=612894713664519

2. Time reconfirmed: Fridays of every other week from 8:00-9:00 Pacific.

1. Dec 28 cancelled

2. Next meeting is Jan 12, 2019

3. SubCommittee work streams

Blueprint series - invite for deep dive in each blueprint’s upstream projects

5. JIRA best practice with upstream

6. 1. https://www.atlassian.com/blogarchives/jira-5-remote-issue-linking?_ga=2.155033144.1034039649.1544751473-664009150.1542144963

   2. Experimentations and learn. How does at&t doing with airship? Call for volunteer to find out more.

7. Upstream project landscape infographics. Call for volunteers.

8. 1. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ccgdnk0f8X76iKxx12D4pYu764VR-3IoocG1wHx1ZPg/edit#slide=id.p

Related organizations / communities liaison

9. 1. Exchange series - invite for introduction/liaison presentations

   2. E.g. TIP, ONAP, Openstack, K8S, EdgeX, ONF…

   3. Prepare a slide deck for Akraino presentation to these groups

1. Blueprint series - invite for deep dive in each blueprint’s upstream projects

2. JIRA best practice with upstream

3. Upstream project landscape infographics. Call for volunteers.

4. Related organizations / communities liaison

5. Other documentation

10. AOB

#1 November 30, 2018. 8-9 AM Pacific.

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1. Introduction of new members/ attendance

1. Wenjing Chu (huawei/chair)

2. Tina Tsou (ARM)

3. Bruce Jones (intel)

4. Deepak S (intel)

5. Yong Xin (radisys)

2. Identify upstream projects

JIRA and linking

3. 1. How to best report issues in Akraino JIRA, and potentially link them to the upstream projects’ JIRA systems?

   1. Unicycle: Airship, Openstack

   2. Rover: Airship, Openstack

   3. SEBA: Airship, CORD, ONAP

   4. Serverless: Airship, Kubeless

   5. IEC: Kubernetes, FD.IO/VPP, DPDK

   6. Edge video processing: Airship, Openstack, ONAP

   7. Tungsten Fabric: Airship, Openstack

1. JIRA and linking

2. Suggest add an item in the template to report upstream projects

3. A diagram highlighting main upstream components in the architecture

4. Organize layers of upstream projects and their dependencies in some kind of graph/picture for easier understanding in a glance (landscape)

5. List upstream communities that may be in scope for the proposed projects/blueprints. To be shared in Dec 6-7 F2F meeting in Santa Clara.

6. Blueprint family: Network Cloud

1. Unicycle: Airship, Openstack

2. Rover: Airship, Openstack

3. SEBA: Airship, CORD, ONAP

4. Serverless: Airship, Kubeless

5. IEC: Kubernetes, FD.IO/VPP, DPDK

6. Edge video processing: Airship, Openstack, ONAP

7. Tungsten Fabric: Airship, Openstack

1. Blueprint family: ELIOT

1. IoT gateway: Kubernetes, EdgeX, ONAP

2. sd-wan/ucpe: Kubernetes, ONAP

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1. Blueprint family: KNI-E

1. Kubernetes

2. Blueprint family: micro-MEC

1. Kubernetes

3. Blueprint family: radio edge cloud

1. Kubernetes

4. Blueprint family: StarlingX Far Edge

1. Far Edge: StarlingX and Openstack, Airship Armada,

2. A diagram highlighting main upstream components in the architecture

5. Feature project: CHOMP

1. Airship, Kubernetes

1. Schedule

1. Conflict with another meeting - may shift for a week

2. Cancel December 28 meeting (if we stay on the current week without a shift)

3. First meeting in 2019 is Jan 11. (if we stay on the current week without a shift)

2. Backlog topic suggestions

Upstream project presentations - collaboration, liaison - in both directions

3. 1. Openstack edge WG

   2. Kubernetes edge WG

   3. ONAP edge WG

   4. TIP

   5. EdgeX

   6. ...

1. Upstream project presentations - collaboration, liaison - in both directions

2. Best practice in working with upstream

3. Other industry organizations