Notes on Mirage meeting - 03 Sep

[Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

My brief notes from this meeting (please add stuff I missed).

- Going through checklist on issue (https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/102)

- Mirari combinator stuff is a blocker - Anil will work on this for next 
Tuesday 

- Anil/Thomas also looking at using opam2web and using opam remotes to provide 
overview of all the libs (this is the trove stuff mentioned last week).

- Dimos looking into networking stuff and trying to hunt down a bug.  Need an 
event channel ninja to help with this kind of debugging. Maybe Dimos, Anil, 
Balraj and Thomas can have a chat on Friday?

- Mort's done a bunch of stuff on Installation (work through big backlog of 
emails)

- There's a memory leak on mirage site but it reboots every couple of days (in 
100s of ms) so not prioritised chasing it down. Anil chatting to others about 
testing for memory leaks but this is on the back burner for now.

- Anil/Mort (and others) also looking into moving blogs onto Mirage.  Anil and 
Mort also keen to have DNS servers running.

- Overall, looking in good shape to release DP1 after next week's call (perhaps 
even before)

Amir



On 27 Aug 2013, at 17:59, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks these are my brief notes on what we spoke about at today's Mirage 
> meeting.  
> Please add in any further details as you remember them.  i.e Dimos, it would 
> be worth you adding a little more info about your testing.
> 
> - Get a release out the door.  Anil pointed people to a GitHub Issue which 
> check-lists all the things for DP1 and DP2. Mort has added to this with a 
> list of repos we should review.  Issue is at: 
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/102
> 
> - Spent some time looking through the check-list and discussing items.   Lots 
> has been done and there's quite a bit to do but it's tractable. Anil working 
> on trove to pull together info/updates from repos.
> 
> - Dimos went through the xen-server script and improved it.  Hasn't committed 
> it yet.  Dimos can lead with lead w XenServer RT
> 
> - Dimos also did some network tests - developed something in TCP.  Not 
> committed anywhere yet? (dimos is fairly new to github)
> 
> - Might be worth us having one machine to mess with. Use it to automate 
> mirage-www. Need a spare test machine to install XenServer on.  Might use 
> Bytemark machines for those?
> 
> - Mirage 1.0 release date.  Amir spoke to Lars and proposed a date of 22nd 
> October. Picking a firm date far enough in advance allows Xen Project to get 
> press resources and trigger the whole announcement machine. However, once 
> date is picked it cannot be changed (think 'juggernaut').  XenSummit is on 
> 24th Oct so 22nd would work well.  Means getting DP1 out soon and DP2 out 
> about a month later.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Amir