#opendaylight-meeting: md_sal_hackers

Meeting summary

1. agenda (tbachman, 16:00:21)
   1. https://meetings.opendaylight.org/opendaylight-meeting/2015/md_sal_hackers/opendaylight-meeting-md_sal_hackers.2015-01-05-16.02.html minutes from last week’s meeting (tbachman, 16:00:30)
   
   
2. wiki pages (tbachman, 16:04:32)
   1. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Controller_Core_Functionality_Tutorials:Main alagalah’s updates to the tutorial wiki page (tbachman, 16:05:18)
   2. alagalah used the previous strawman and edited the guts to create the above link (tbachman, 16:05:38)
   3. jmedved says it’s very complimentary to what he created (tbachman, 16:05:49)
   4. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Controller:MD-SAL:MD-SAL_Document_Review:Step_by_Step_Tutorial jmedved’s updated to the tutorial (tbachman, 16:06:41)
   5. jmedved put each chapter in its own page (tbachman, 16:06:54)
   6. alagalah can take what jmedved has and take it out of the existing namespace and put it under the toaster tutorial (tbachman, 16:08:59)
   7. jmedved says this would be great, and then we can start editing the chapters (tbachman, 16:09:20)
   8. jmedved asks if we can agree on the chapter content (i.e. is existing chapter content okay)? (tbachman, 16:09:56)
   9. jmedved says in chapter 6, he would opt to introduce the full toaster tutorial, and then after that introduce the JMX (tbachman, 16:10:18)
   10. jmedved asks if this is a good structure (tbachman, 16:10:49)
   11. alagalah says it looks good to him (tbachman, 16:10:59)
   12. pantelis says it looks good (tbachman, 16:11:17)
   13. jmedved asks if we want to deprecate the existing tutorial (tbachman, 16:11:55)
   14. pantelis asks if we are talking about the existing code in the controller or the wiki (tbachman, 16:12:33)
   15. jmedved says he was originally thinking about the wiki, but also we should do something with the controller (tbachman, 16:13:01)
   16. alagalah says we should depreceate this by calling it the “old toaster tutorial” (tbachman, 16:13:34)
   17. jmedved asks if we’ll be ready for next week’s TWS call (tbachman, 16:15:01)
   18. alagalah asks if John Burns had an issue with a feature not being installed. (tbachman, 16:15:18)
   19. John Burns says he occasionally sees a config pusher exception (tbachman, 16:15:28)
   20. jmedved says he downloaded John Burn’s latest git, and sees the config pusher exception all the time (tbachman, 16:15:56)
   21. jmedved says if he installs toaster manually afterwards, this doesn’t happen. It only happens with installs at the beginning (tbachman, 16:16:52)
   22. alagalah asks if we could be having some overlap with toaster in the controller (tbachman, 16:17:08)
   23. jmedved says he doesn’t believe for (tbachman, 16:17:13)
   24. rovarga asks if the config file for the toaster lists all the required namespaces, specifically the impl-config namespace (tbachman, 16:17:39)
   25. ACTION: alagalah to migrate things from the MD-SAL namespace to the tutorial namespace (tbachman, 16:19:15)
   26. alagalah says we need to start pushing code into our repo, now that we have a project (tbachman, 16:19:27)
   27. ACTION: John Burns to work with alagalah to push code (tbachman, 16:19:38)
   28. alagalah and jmedved point out that we need to elect a project lead and test lead (tbachman, 16:19:53)
   29. pantelis to nominate himself as project lead (tbachman, 16:21:51)
   30. jmedved to nominate himself as the test lead (tbachman, 16:22:06)
   31. jmedved is separately looking into whether outside organizaitons might be interested in helping on this project (tbachman, 16:25:04)
   32. jmedved says that we need the archetype to be finished in order to properly document the pom (tbachman, 16:29:09)
   33. ACTION: jmedved and rovarga to work on a write-up for the pom.xml (tbachman, 16:30:28)
   34. jmedved asks if we’re ready for next week’s TWS call (tbachman, 16:30:47)
   35. John Burns asks what’s involved (tbachman, 16:30:55)
   36. jmedved says introduce the new directory structure, tutorial structure, etc. (tbachman, 16:31:13)
   37. alagalah says he can commit to having the wiki updated early this week (tbachman, 16:31:42)
   38. alagalah can help John Burns push the code up to the repository (tbachman, 16:31:53)
   39. alagalah notes that there’s also work needed on the config pusher issue and the pom structure; alagalah recommends something for Friday (tbachman, 16:32:17)
   40. rovarga says Friday after 8am PST doesn’t work; alagalah says 7am works for him; jmedved says he can do 6, 6:30, 7..... (tbachman, 16:32:55)
   41. AGREED: Meeting to go over tutorial presentation for TWS at 7am PST on Friday (tbachman, 16:33:27)
   42. uchau asks if there’s any plans to go over the MD-SAL release plans (tbachman, 16:37:04)
   43. For example, topics such as deprecate inventory model (tbachman, 16:37:18)
   44. Updating or changing yang-to-java mapping (v2, as covered by ttkacik at the developer’s summit) (tbachman, 16:37:46)
   45. jmedved says ttkacik has a short summary; jmedved says it would be a good thing to have a TWS call on the work that’s being done in the MD-SAL features (tbachman, 16:38:38)
   46. rovarga says they would postpone binding features to Beryllium, and incorporate some of the Java 8 features (tbachman, 16:39:21)
   47. jmedved says there will be some changes to the notifications API and RPC API; proposals have been sent out by rovarga, but he hasn’t received much feedback (tbachman, 16:39:55)
   48. rovarga says we should review the features in this call first, then promote to the larger community in Tuesday’s call (tbachman, 16:40:25)
   49. jmedved recommends we schedule the first 15-20 minutes for next week’s call on the tutorial and the rest of the call going over these changes. (tbachman, 16:41:05)
   50. plan is to cover notifications next week, and RPCs the following week (tbachman, 16:41:33)
   51. uchau asks about inventory; some of their projects augment inventory, so if changes are made at that level, they need to know (tbachman, 16:41:56)
   52. rovarga says it’s not part of the MD-SAL, or at least not part of the infrastructure; he says that the openflowplugin folks are looking into some of these changes (tbachman, 16:42:26)
   53. uchau asks if this would be a good TWS call (tbachman, 16:42:34)
   54. rovarga says there is an openflow open items on today’s TWS (tbachman, 16:43:01)
   55. alagalah says today’s TWS is the security update (tbachman, 16:43:09)
   56. abhijitkumbhare contacted alagalah about this last week, and alagalah recommended finding a slot for this topic (tbachman, 16:43:59)
   57. rovarga says that we need to make sure that resources are committed to moving applications off of the model (tbachman, 16:45:02)
   58. rovarga says the topology model hasn’t been updated yet with their latest draft (tbachman, 16:45:35)
   59. jmedved asks if there are any other coments on the tutorial (tbachman, 16:46:31)
   60. uchau says it would be nice to see the archetype, as this sets up the directory structure (tbachman, 16:46:44)
   61. uchau asks when the toaster is going to be available (tbachman, 16:48:49)
   62. jmedved says it’s available on John Burn’s private git (tbachman, 16:48:59)
   63. ACTION: John Burns to share his git repo (tbachman, 16:49:09)

Action items

1. alagalah to migrate things from the MD-SAL namespace to the tutorial namespace
2. John Burns to work with alagalah to push code
3. jmedved and rovarga to work on a write-up for the pom.xml
4. John Burns to share his git repo

People present (lines said)

1. tbachman (75)
2. odl_meetbot (4)
3. uchau (1)