TSC Agendas September 16, 2024 - January -6, 2025

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Last updated: Jan 13, 2025 by Micky Kumar
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Workflows

Workflows:

  1. In advance of a meeting

    1. The program manager ensures an entry for the next meeting is initialized. (This is the same as item 3b below).

    2. Any community member could add items to the "new business" list

  2. During the meeting

    1. Each attendee is asked to add themselves to the list.

    2. An attendee steps forward to act as program manager

    3. The program manager records minutes and action items for each agenda item.

  3. After the meeting the program manager

    1. Records a list of follow-up tasks. These are extracted from the minutes.

    2. Initializes the entry for the next meeting. (This is the same as item 1a above)

    3. Records votes and decisions by consensus in the Decision Log

  4. After the quarter

    1. Freeze this document, with added ending date in place of "the present", and spin up a new one

This document is structured per consensus in the TSC on January 29, 2024 and Proposal: new format for TSC agenda #15372.

Meeting-by-Meeting Entries

(Template entry: do not edit) Month day, year

Attendees

  • TBD

New Business

  • TBD

Standing Topics

(NEXT) Month day, year

Attendees

  • TBD

New Business

Standing Topics

 

Jan 6, 2025

Attendees

  • Micky Kumar

  • Dr Amanda Martin

  • Jim Blakley

  • Som Sikdar

  • Lucas Amaral

  • Sai venkatesh Addala

  • Yogesh Pandey

New Business

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Should we create a new page for new year?

      • consensus: yes. Mickey will implement.

    • Calling elections

      • Amanda to lead

  • 1.9 Release

    • JFrog is the blocker. Meeting this coming Thursday.

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

    • Master PO for procurement and logisitics have been placed from LF

    • The radio and HK AGW vendors require up front payment. This has been coordinated with the logistics vendor. They have agreed to float that amount which will speed up procurement

    • TSC needs to put together Starter Kit allocation process

  • Outreach Report

    • Community meeting

      • 1/15 at 9 ET tentative date. Som to lead. Gather presentations. Post to LinkedIn. Title “Magma Community Meeting: CMU case study, latest 5G updates”. Amanda to add to LF public calendar.

    • Reminder we have to resurrect the PR plan wrt the release of 1.9 release. Currently this is tentatively scheduled (with LF marketing) for mid-Jan

    • @Micky Kumar had suggested we start planning for CY2025 outreach activities so that we have a formal plan. I highly recommend it and would like to dicuss as to the main goals of outreach at this point of the project

    • PSA: The monthly OCP Evenstar/LF Connectivity call is scheduled fro Jan 7 (tomorrow) @ 7AM Pacific

      OCP Evenstar <> Linux Foundation Connectivity Sync-up Tuesday, January 7⋅7:00 – 8:00am Monthly on the first Tuesday 14 guests 6 yes 1 no, 2 maybe, 5 awaiting *Updating to Zoom* Zoom Details https://opencompute-org.zoom.us/j/88234773868?pwd=eEtjT2pJcnIvWXplSGFiYWNLSlFFdz09 Meeting ID: 882 3477 3868 Passcode: 761932 --- One tap mobile +13092053325,,88234773868# US +13126266799,,88234773868# US (Chicago) --- Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Find your local number: https://opencompute-org.zoom.us/u/kbIa7gJyFS 10 minutes before

  • Security updates

  • standing agenda item for chore: unbreak master branch · Issue #15589 · magma/magma

  • standing agenda item for defining 1.10: Discontinuing domain proxy

    • Minutes: CMU is planning to use it and doesn’t have an alternative. If we plan to kill it, need to identify and document an alternative, ideally one that is open source. Radio vendors sometimes provide one but they are specific to each radio. Lucas G suggests moving to a standalone repo. Yogesh points out that it needs to be tightly integrated with Orc8r. We can disable the CI job for DP. Would need architectural changes. It is hard to have the DP be a standalone for use outside of Magma. Som suggests feature flag to disable in CI.

    • Consensus

      • Disable in CI if possible, maybe behind a feature flag

  • Review Latest Q&A

December 16, 2024

Attendees

  • Lucas Gonze

  • MIcky Kumar

  • Dr. Amanda Martin

  • Som Sikdar

  • Jim Blakley

  • Jorge Vargas

  • Sai venkatesh Addala

  • Lucas Amaral

  • Jordan Vrtanoski

  • Yogesh Pandey

New Business

Standing Topics

  • Governance

  • 1.9 Release

    • Testing ongoing and going well. jFrog blocker.

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report

  • Security updates

  • Review Latest Q&A

Follow-ups:

  • Micky to cancel 12/23 and 12/27 meeting

December 09, 2024

Attendees

  • Micky Kumar

  • Amanda Martin

  • Jim Blakley

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Sai venkatesh Addala

  • Som Sikdar

New Business

  • Picking accounts for Dockerhub admin

  • Magma Deployer

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Google Calendar has been updated.

    • For Slack Notification, It is asking Micky to connect to personal google Account.

      • Recommendation: For now, Manually post a notification when there is a meeting (1 hour before meeting time).

      • Need to figure out future ownership

        • Amanda to implement

        • Owner: LF

          • This is currently magma@linuxfoundation

          • Forward to tsc@ list.

        • Admin: Jordan and Micky

  • 1.9 Release

    • Bottlenecked on GPG keys.

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

    • LF top level PO has been issued. We will get estimates of when all the components of the kit are expected to be in FGI

    • We need to start a new proposal to determine how these issues will allocated and managed (@Som Sikdar will created issues)

    • We need to discuss #15497 and start planning the SW, documentation and docs

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report

    • @Som Sikdar updated @Jill Lovato about the TSC decision to push out the v1.9 PR to next month, - subject to the v1.9 artifact and downloadable release. We will restart the thread mid-January

    • Reminder to TSC about the offer from OCP (Bijan Nowroozi) to present OCP/Evenstart to Magma. QQ - should we try to hold this in December or in Jan?

    • Should we consider including the starter kit in the Jan v1.9 PR?

  • Security updates

  • Review Latest Q&A

December 02, 2024

Attendees

  • Micky Kumar

  • Jordan Vrtanoski

  • Som Sikdar

  • Jim Blakley

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Sai venkatesh Addala

  • Lucas Gonze

New Business

  • Acceptance vote on #15420 *

    • Discussion of workflows for payments, approvals, and acceptances. Need to get acceptance of proposed budget carveouts. Differentiation between approved proposals, future proposals, cash-outlay proposals. Consensus on allowing proposers of accepted proposals to start work without TAB approval or a PO AT THEIR OWN RISK.

  • New contract to adjust to Veltris name change

Standing Topics

November 25, 2024

Attendees

  • Tapas Mishra

  • Mickey Kumar

  • Jordan Vrtanoski

  • Lucas Gonze

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Lucas Amaral (Connect5G)

  • Suresh Gorijavolu

  • Jim Blakley

New Business

Standing Topics

Calendar Table

Meeting

Time

Keep?

Calendar update

Meeting

Time

Keep?

Calendar update

Magma Weekly TSC Meeting

Weekly Monday - 8AM PST

yes

Fix missing notification in Slack. Sandra to grant admin privs to TSC members.

Magma Devops Meeting

Weekly Wednesday - 8AM PST

merge with engineering

delete

Magma Devops Meeting

Monthly Wednesday - 8AM PST

merge with engineering

delete

Magma Engineering Monthly

Monthly Thursday - 8AM PST

Merge with Devops meeting. Put on 2nd week, biweekly. Pull back one hour, to before Outreach

Sandra or any TSC member with permissions

Magma Security Working Group

Biweekly Wednesday - 8AM PST

Biweekly Monday 30 mins before TSC

Cancel Wednesday

Keep Monday

Sandra or any TSC member with permissions.

Need to switch from Mickey’s private Zoom account to LF’s Zoom account.

Magma Outreach Working Meeting

Weekly Thursday - 8AM PST

No plans to change

Sandra or any TSC member with permissions

 

November 18, 2024

Attendees

  • Som

  • Micky

  • Jorge (Ericsson)

  • Yogesh

  • Sai (Veltris)

  • Lucas

  • Sandra

  • Jordan

  • Jim

New Business

  • Sai introduction: he is leading 5G 1.9 testing

  • Should we Restart the Engineering call?

    • Todo:

      • make a list of all meetings and review with the group in TSC @Micky Kumar

      • form consensus (TSC)

      • edit the Google Calendar in the LFX tool to reflect consensus @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated)

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Magma Google Calendar:

      • There is 2 Devops meeting - One weekly and one monthly

      • Security Meeting needs to be updated to bi-weekly Monday 7:30AM PT

  • 1.9 Release

    • 2 open items remaining to conclude 1.9

    • press release

      • Shah quote to finalize

      • Jordan quote finalize

      • Release notes completion by Jordan

    • @Yogesh Pandey to assist Jim with finding orc8r assets

  • Proposals

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report including Starter Kit:

    • A monthly call with OCP is now on calendar. They are eager to collaborate for OpenRAN/Evenstar

      • @Som Sikdar will work with @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated) to get this monthly meeting on caledar

    • Starter Kit - Approved by LFC adv board and LF. Combination here

      • Need to proceed wtih PO. It will be great to get this rolling ASAP to avoid end of year slowdown.

      • Som calls for a vote to move forward post haste

        • ask IT to cover the budget and issue the order

        • Motion: Som

        • Second: Jim

        • +1: Jordan, Lucas, Yogesh

    • OCP has offered to do a OCP-introduction hour to LFC/Magma - should we set this up on one of the TSC or other meeting

    • Budget approval update? I (Som) understand that the request for 2025 fund allocation was not reviewed by TAB last time due to time constraints. (@Sandra Jackson (Deactivated) can you please confirm?) I spoke with TAB to get two meetings on Calendar per month for the next six months

      • One meeting to discuss roadmap and technical issues from TSC

      • One meeting for dicussing proposals and funding

      • Thoughts?

  • Security updates

    • Book a meeting to discuss post-quantum crypto with U Penn and U Florida

    • Project management to incorporate U Penn's new testing tool for AMF in CI

    • Attribution in 1.9 for security submissions

    • SUCI PR cherrypicked from 1.9 to master https://github.com/magma/magma/pull/15568

  • Review Latest Q&A

November 11, 2024

skipped for US holiday

November 04, 2024

Attendees

  • @Som Sikdar

  • Micky Kumar

  • Jim Blakley

  • Lucas Gonze

  • Sai venkatesh Addala

  • Sandra Jackson

New Business

  • Budget Input

    • Minutes: Jim suggests defining overall buckets, break down the buckets into % of the total, learn the absolute values for the total budget. Iterate.

      • buckets - pass 1

        • core infrastructure

          • dashboard

          • LF support

          • development resources

        • outreach

          • promotion - marketing

          • supporting deployers

        • starter kit

        • supporting contributors / developer community

          • documentation

          • talks at developer forums

          • town halls

      • buckets - pass 2 (see “community engagement” table below)

        • (Som) - let’s ask Sandra what the accounting line items are

    •  

  • Outreach meeting on calendar is not working. Zoom displayed ‘Meeting has already ended’ at 8AM pacific. Need to get fixed @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated)

Standing Topics

 

Oct 28, 2024

Attendees

  • @Som Sikdar

  • @Micky Kumar

  • @Arpit Joshipura

  • @Lucas Gonze

  • @Jim Blakley

  • @Jordan Vrtanoski

  • Sai Venkatesh Addala

  • @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated)

  • @Yogesh Pandey

New Business

  • Arpit Info/Q&A

    • Transparency on funding rules. Pre-approval of starter kits.

    • QoS on paying invoices, fixing Firebase, charter updates

Standing Topics

October 21, 2024

Attendees

  • @Som Sikdar

  • Mickey Kumar

  • Bruno Faria

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Jim Blakley

  • Sandra Jackson

  • Lucas Gonze

New Business

  • Election to fill open seats

    • Todo: research quorum rules. Do we need more people to have quorum?

    • Next election, based on 12-month cycle: March

    • Todo: research provisions for out-of-cycle election in governance documents.

  • Micky - Question: Should we a matchmaking page (Connecting contractors to hiring managers) in Github Wiki or confluence? Keep in mind, it will contain people contact email and where would be a safe place to avoid anyone getting spam.

    • Discussion: is the page public? Spam is a concern.

    • Discussion: is this in-scope for the TSC?

      • Not brokering connections, but making community members visible (Jim)

      • Slack is not necessarily available to new hiring managers or devs. This is an argument to have a web-based connection point.

      • Distinguish between TSC making connections directly vs just enabling parties to connect on their own.

    • Consider a page on LinkedIn rather than something hosted by Magma. Todo: research LinkedIn, Slack, wiki specifics.

    • Todo: post on #general to ask for ideas and feedback.

    • Idea: Magma skills badge for LinkedIn or resume

Standing Topics

Addl followups:

  • Update calendar entry for TSC meeting and other meetings (Sandra)

  • Slack alerts broken, need to grant admin rights to TSC, probably Jordan (Sandra)

  • Confirm health of CI dashboard with Tim (Lucas)

October 14, 2024

Attendees

  • Micky Kumar

  • Lucas Gonze

  • Jorge Vargas

  • Sandra Jackson

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Jim Blakley

New Business

  • Connecting contractors to hiring managers

    • Invite Atul Mahale to join some meetings. Outreach. Todo: give him the info.

    • Mickey idea: create a matchmaking page. Jim comment: ensure it doesn’t endorse anybody, whether hiring or developing.

  • Standardized APIs project in LF

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Follow-up on LFC call last week

    • Funding process

      • Sandra working on getting LF participation in a TSC meeting

    • About funding OFC costs: "Unfortunately, this does not fall under the regular LF outreach process and the approval was turned down." Who did we talk to? What did they say?

      • The reply sent to Sandra from Arpit didn’t have an explanation of the reason.

    • Maintenance on Calendar entries

      • Sandra to change link in invitation

    • Maintenance on Slack, e.g. to fix auto-posted links

      • Can the TSC get admin rights on the Slack?

  • 1.9 Release

    • Press release

      • Jim sent materials to Jill Lovato. She is doing a draft. Will probably have to provide support on e.g. history of Magma. Blocker is when we are calling 1.9 done. Deadline for announcement is when it is actually done and released. The day it is promoted to release branch. Todo: Jim will send Jill a note about the timing.

    • Domain proxy is fixed in 1.9 branch

    • Integration testing is green in CI. We are now about to merge PRs.

      • Open call for PRs to merge into 1.9

    • Ready for end of October promotion

    • Jim tried out the current 1.9 at CMU. There may be issues with UEs but this is not clear yet. TBD.

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report

  • Security updates

    • Lucas to review security-related PRs that haven’t made it into 1.9

  • Review Latest Q&A

October 07, 2024

Attendees

  • Micky Kumar

  • Lucas Gonze

  • Som Sikdar

  • Jim Blakley

  • Jorge Vargas

  • Jordan Vrtanoski

New Business

  • PM attendance is important in TSC meetings. TSC requests that we be advised ahead of time if PM will not be attending. It will be important to have an alternate attend the meeting for communications to LF.

  • Followups on Security WG.

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Alternatives to POs.

      • Idea: meet w/ LF to define criteria for what will be funded. Define risk factors. TSC to ask LF PM to book the meeting with LF (Stephanie Wigel).

    • Meeting with TAB.

    • Calendar entry needs update. Wrong link. Other calendar entries need updating.

      • Not getting TSC reminders in Slack.

  • 1.9 Release

    • Jim to test NGAP improvement

    • ETA end of October to promote 1.9 branch to release build

    • Connect5G to do 4G sanity testing

      • Proposal: weekly call on testing

    • Press Release - Jill Lovato, LF PR contact, has suggested next steps. We need to follow up and decide on the content

      • Lucas to assist

      • Need to identify most important messages to get across

        • First community release

        • CMU’s deployment of 1.9 on campus

        • Quotes

          • from Jordan: why this is important…

          • from Jim: CMU deployment

        • statement on future roadmap

          • Kubernetes is done but not merged

        • 5G

        • Yogesh to share list of improvements

        • C++ migration

        • Performance

        • Security updates

      • Som and Lucas to coordinate with Jill Lovato

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

    • Som is updating the proposal with Jordan’s feedback on factoring feature set. It will be shared with TSC this week

  • Kubernetes / container

    • Blocked on PR being merged, which was blocked on general CI breakage. Veltris is working on e.g. linter, Bazel. Domain Proxy fix (“Domain proxy integration tests with orc8r”) is not in the works.

    • Consider whether to keep supporting domain proxy, if it is truly broken. Somebody needs to reclaim the component. Veltris will do the first level of analysis.

  • Outreach Report

    • Request for advisory board meeting - Som is trying to get a time slot with Shah and Shaddi on one of the standing slots - either TSC slot or Outreach slot

      • Shah has proposed 8:30AM pacific this Thursday (Oct 10, 2024) for the meeting. I’m checking with Shaddi

    • OCP Global Summit this month in San Jose - @Jordan Vrtanoski is on a panel and Shah Rahman is speaking.

      • @Sandra Jackson (Deactivated) - need to coordinate with Jordan for OCP attendance reimbursement

  • Security updates

  • Review Latest Q&A

September 30, 2024

Attendees

  • Bruno

  • Jordan

  • Jorge

  • Lucas

  • Yogesh

  • Jim

New Business

  • Jim gist project

  • Calendar reminders of meetings posted in Slack

  • Visibility. Perception of being inactive.

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Projects waiting on POs

    • TAB status

    • Documentation on LFC policies

  • 1.9 Release

    • QA on documentation.

    • Testing still needed

    • Need:

      • Clean Bazel

      • Clean lint

      • Clean sanity testing results

      • New PRs to fix bugs discovered in testing

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

    • Som: “I have discussed a proposal to confine the radios to US only and acquire half of them now and half (5) down the road when we get more visibility on international request. I promised him a spreadsheet to calculate the final proposal - but I am backed up at work and have not been able to finish it yet. My optimistic ETA is this wednesday”

    • Lucas: the issue of being a non-profit project will need to be addressed

  • Kubernetes / container

    • Merge is blocked

  • Outreach Report

    • Reviewing the possibility of @Jordan Vrtanoski speaking at OCP summit

  • Security updates

  • Review Latest Q&A

September 23, 2024

Attendees

  • Som

  • Jim

  • Mickey

  • Yogesh

  • Lucas

New Business

  • For 1.9 Release, we need to update docs.magmacore.org around 1.9 Release

    • Yogesh and Mickey to work on any special instructions for 1.9

  • PR backlog

    • Fix is underway for “#32 6.574 fatal: unable to access 'https://liblfds.org/git/liblfds/': The requested URL returned error: 500”

    • Yogesh to share other info to community via Slack

    • Dashboard / CICD is a blocker

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Dashboard, accounts payable and Firebase

      • Per Som about Slack thread, the LF doesn’t appear to be receiving any bills.

      • Jim points out that access to money is a blocker for simply avoiding LF

      • Som will ask Shah and Shaddi to come to next TSC. Lucas to start thread.

  • 1.9 Release

    • Debian package fixed

    • Linter upgraded but new errors appearing https://github.com/magma/magma/issues/15529

    • 6/107 tests failing. Veltris to address.

    • Need a scale test for 4G. Veltris doesn’t have the infrastructure. Need to exceed 600 MB AGW traffic among all subscribers. A commercial tool is required.

    • Next milestone: TSC vote to upgrade 1.9_test branch to 1.9 release branch.

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

    • We need to resubmit the proposal with the two updates that LF has requested

      1. Reduce the radio variations as much as possible for the initial buy

      2. process and cost for receiving and shipping the kits

    • My recommendations is as follows (@Som Sikdar )

      • Here is my suggestion for TSC’s consideration

        1. Let's do 10 kits each with AGW and Stargate UE

        2. Let's separately buy 5 4G/5G radios (US band)

        3. We will use external cellular hotspot+Stargate for 5G UE - that way they are flexible for testing in various countries

        4. We use the logistics proposal from Isolated

        In future we'll get additional openran radios (5 units)

      • Submit the finished goods proposal we receiveda to cover one years of the program

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report

  • Security updates

  • Review Latest Q&A

September 16, 2024

Attendees

  • Bruno Faria

  • Micky Kumar

  • Lucas Gonze

  • Yogesh Pandey

  • Jordan Vrtanoski

New Business

  • Creating a new agenda page

    • Page load time is being prohibitive

Standing Topics

  • Governance

    • Need check-in with LF Legal on final status of charter and contributing

  • 1.9 Release

    • Branch sanity check done

    • Somebody needs to check the vanilla Debian package. Yogesh thinks one of the third party packages is missing. Veltris DevOps is working on that package.

    • Jim B requested an MR to be added to the branch. Parser change. Issues raised in previous TSC have been addressed. See Merge Number: https://github.com/magma/magma/pull/15513

    • Need live testing of the branch. Jim will do.

    • Som press release is TBD

  • Proposals

  • Starter Kit

  • Kubernetes / container

  • Outreach Report

    • Som is not available but has written up the notes from the LFC meeting and sent to @Sandra Jackson for review and sharing at Monday's meeting (9/16/2024). However Sandra is not here to share them.

  • Security updates

    • Reboot this. Options:

      • Do security and testing meetings together in real time.

      • Consolidate with another meeting

      • Cancel

      • Schedule on the fly

      • Improve attendance

      • Switch from biweekly to monthly

      • Put after or before the TSC

        • consensus: move to 30 minutes before the TSC. Lucas to reschedule.

    • Next step: think about it and come back to discussion

  • Review Latest Q&A

 

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