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For an archive of meeting notes pre-dating the Aether Project moving from ONF to LF, click here.

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  • Infrastructure Update
    • Expired certificates updated → How do we keep this from happening again?
      • Warning to be sent to aether-tst channel 
      • By using local Helm Charts, OnRamp can avoid this issue
    • DockerHub rate limit → Now impacting daily integration tests
      • Publish all images to Aether Registry (official releases still go to DockerHub)
      • But... have to keep the Aether Registry available
      • To put together a specific plan of action (daf, llp, gabriel)
    • DNS
    • Refactoring PR to be merged later
    OnRamp Update
      • Also want sd-core.aetherproject.org and sd-ran.aetherproject.org
      • To put together a specific plan of action (llp, daf)
  • OnRamp Update
    • Refactoring PR to be merged later today → Watch for updates to documentation
    • UERANSIM blueprint includes data plane test
    • Why do we need Helm Charts from opencord when deploying the 5GC?
      • I don't think we do; plan to remove.
    • Re-org docs to highlight blueprints
  • SD-RAN Update
    • Adding Github action to SD-RAN doc repo
    • Updating SD-RAN doc - especially hardware installation part as it is out-of date
    • Latest Helm Chart (1.4.x) is actually for v1.5
      • going to re-number as 1.5.0 Helm Chart version to match release
    • O-RAN plugfest - Viavi integration; kick-off meeting this week
  • SD-Core Update
    • UPF-Adapter code update in progress (enable metrics)
      • Helm Charts are already updated
    • Review all outstanding PRsRenamed default branch for all repos to "main"
      • Some repos already used "main" as default
      • For the other repos, everything got automatically updated (e.g., PRs)
    • UPF-Adapter code update in progress (enable metrics)
      • Helm Charts are already updated
    • Review all outstanding PRs
    • gNBsim paper under review
  • ROC Update
    • GitHub Actions?
    • Still pending
  • ARA Update
    • SD-RAN deployment 
      • Begin setting up SD-RAN, progressing toward running OAI 2022.w51 with SD-RAN.
    • SD-CORE deployment
      • Trying to improve throughput from Ericsson gNB
        • Expecting 700-820Mbps
      • Suresh at Intel Labs is focused on performance
        • He's seeing no issues (getting around 1Gbps)
        • Connecting Suresh with Joshua on Slack
        • Easiest to troubleshoot using UERANSIM
    • Exploring SMART-5G & Rakuten POC effort (09-24-24 meeting notes) 
    • Miscellaneous items
      • Interest in "ARA Blueprint" advised by Larry 
      • Plugfest at ARA OTIC (O-RAN Testing Centers)
      • June 2025 gathering of wireless and AgTech industry leaders (via NTIA ACCoRD project & likely AraFest'25)


10-15-24

  • Infrastructure
    • Docker Hub organizations (residual from ONF days)
    • Limit of three seats per org
      • Need one for "lfreleng"
      • Need "onfauto → currently pushes SD-Core (and other) images
      • Open Third Seat  → assign to a TST member (currently Gabriel)
    • Three "quiet" orgs → xosproject & onfinfra (remove), opencord (check with Voltha)
    • Five orgs created but never used (keep "aetherproject" & "openaether" remove the other three)
  • SD-Core Update
    • Release new Helm Charts using the latest versions of the images, including the upfadapter image
      • Code for the upfadapter was removed from the smf repo
    • Reviewed and merged most of the open PRs (Currently, 14 PRs open: 5 are drafts, 5 dependabot PRs have issues due to protobuf update/version)
    • Daf will help us renaming the default branch to "main" and update the GHAs to point to "main"
    • omec-pod-init and omec-cni repos still pending to create
  • OnRamp Update
    • Pipelines for integration tests now in GitHub
    • Stability remains an issue
      • DockerHub rate limits
        • Anonymous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address
        • Authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hours
        • Docker Pro and Team subscribers: Up to 5,000 pulls per 24 hours 
      • VM resources?
        • Base (4vcpu+16GB). Trying (8vcpu+32GB)
      • TIme to download images from DockerHub?
        • Could shift to Aether Registry (on a VM inside our AWS account)
        • Docs, Registry, Jenkins, Docker Builder/Executor (may not need since we've moved off Jenkins CI tools)
    • ueransim blueprint is now using the latest version of SD-Core Helm Charts
      • Issues starting the gNB and UE as Linux processes? → Was working at one time, but...
      • The Ansible playbook is flakey(did work for 1 of 3 instances – UE/gNB pair of processes)
      • ARA also seeing problems
    • srsRAN blueprint status?
  • SD-RAN Update
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  • ARA Update
    • Waiting on v1.5 release of SD-RAN
    • Still seeing throughput issue for Ericsson gNB and SD-Core
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  • OnRamp
    • PR related to k8s configuration pending - meeting with Gabriel, Suresh and Larry to sync up on this



  • ROC
    • No progress on updating Wiki - Sean to continue on this


8-20-24

  • SD-RAN
    • Working on v1.5 release
      • Working on documentation and release notes
      • To include OAI 5G RAN 
        • includes "ONF" E2 agent (not OAI's)
        • implies need to rebuild OAI images (since E2 agent is statically included)
      • Not include update to golang 
      • Expect announce 1st week of September
      • E2SM → Will add O-RAN RC Service Model 
        • Backward compatible with the old ONF Service Model
  • Infrastructure
    • Jira
      • Production site available at https://jira.aetherproject.org
        • Still working out Anonymous creation of issues
      • Permission Question:
        • Currently four levels of access
          1. Anonymous (users without Atlassian accounts or not logged into them) can Browse and Read existing Issues but not modify anything
          2. Any Logged in user can basically change almost any field in an issue, and invite people to join the site and become a user
            1. When invited, specific domains are automatically approved when invitee makes the request
            2. Basically, any  TSC user's domain (that is NOT public (ie, not gmail, yahoo, aol, ...))] is currently automatically approved.
          3. aether-jira-admin users can update group and user permissions
          4. admin can do anything.
        • QUESTION: Any need now to restrict (beyond being logged in as an approved Aether Jira user) things like:
          • Transitioning a ticket between states (including closing)
          • Mucking with assignee
          • editting fields beyond comments
          • → Taking a wait-and-see approach
      • Known TODOs
        • Figure out how to let Anonymous users create new tickets
          • Currently looks like a separate form to embed on an appropriate webpage that will then go create a ticket based on provided input
        • TST Guidance: Lowering the barrier to creating a Jira account >> creating Anonymous Tickets does not need to be supported
    • Confluence
      • Test migration appeared to complete successfully
      • QUESTION: Can I perform the formal migration from existing Confluence DataServer to Confluence Cloud between 12:00 noon Wednesday(8/21) and 12:00 noon Thursday (8/22) (PDT)?
        • Will require read-only Confluence installation at start of process until completion.
        • Upon completion, existing wiki.aetherproject.org will point to new site
          • Previous site will be maintained for approximately 30 days as an archive/reference site and then hopefully deleted.
        • I would hope that people can spend a 30-60 minutes reviewing the site after completion and ensuring things look okay.   Hoping to have acceptance of new site by next week's TST.
        • Post note on migration to #aether-dev channel
    • Jenkins
      • No progress as yet
      • No roadblocks
    • SD-RAN DNS
      • No progress from last week
  • OnRamp
    • PR related to k8s configuration pending
    • Still debugging monitoring system (metricfunc failing)
  • Question to Group: Anyone connected to "Aether Using Nephio" project?
  • SD-Core
    • Incorporating the static checks for linting with other PRs
    • No progress on logging
    • Discussion about e2e test on PRs
    • Waiting on repo omec-cni, omec-pod-init (to rename)

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  • Aether Jira Proposal:  Aether Jira Proposal
    • Tweaked proposal and accepted as "good enough to get started"
    • Should be ready to play with next week
  • Github org renaming: https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-organization-settings/renaming-an-organization
    • More representative → Mostly focused on "opennetworkinglab" (should be "aether")
    • May break external links, but now is a good time to change since we're creating new docs/pages
    • No objection...
  • Slack vs Element (https://element.io/)
    • Limiting history to 1 year (affects "grandfathered" workspaces like onf-community)
    • Proposal: prune onf-community back to "aether" and accept history limit (take up with voltha and p4)
  • Code of Conduct ((https://lfprojects.org/policies/code-of-conduct/)
    • Look through the LF standard and decide at a future meeting
  • Jenkins Status
    • ONOS GitHub Actions
      • Actions that run for PR (ROC done)
      • Actions that run for PR (SD-RAN done)
      • Not yet publishing new Docker images (in progress)
    • OnRamp Integration tests
      • JJB Related: Jobs with same name as the one created earlier, are not getting created again.
      • Native Tests: All the Jenkins jobs are not able to go beyond aether-5gc-install step. → "new group" command hanging
  • omec-pod-init and omec-cni repos Gabriel Arrobo 
    • These repos are in Gerrit → Why? Not updated in years. Move to omec GitHub? → Yes.
  • TST Meetings in July → Will remain on the schedule and expect them to happen (with some people missing)

6-18-24

  • DCO (instead of CLA) in place Larry Peterson David Ferguson (Deactivated) 
  • Configuring new Jira Larry Peterson  David Ferguson (Deactivated)
    • Archiving old Jira
    • Proposal
      • Projects: SD-Core, SD-RAN, ROC, OnRamp, Smart5G
      • Workflow: New, Assigned, Resolved, Reopened (start simple)
      • What Fields: Description, Status
      • Hopefully will demo at next week's TST
  • GitHub default branch should be main instead of master. Ajay Lotan Thakur 
    • Master is old way; main is the new way (and the default)
    • Prefer to have all the same; most currently master
    • Decision: leave it as is (expect to be mixed)
  • BESS-UPF Helm Charts: Current charts assume symmetry for the access and core interfaces (i.e., same CNI Plug-in for both) Gabriel Arrobo
    • Any objection about making the Helm Charts as generic as possible such that each individual CNI can be independently chosen?
    • Example: access=macvlan, core=host-device
    • But it remains the default that they are the same (currently macvlan); so remains backward compatible
    • Will eventually want to expose in OnRamp
  • Road map cleanup Ajay Lotan Thakur Gabriel Arrobo 
    • Priority to take up only SBI upgrade this quarter/end of Sept 2024
    • Priority on bug fixes and issues reported by other community members
    • See Roadmap for more details
    • Work harder to get info to the community / work to attract contributors
  • SD-RAN update Woojoong Kim (Deactivated) 
    • Working with a team of 5 students
    • Github action → Almost done (run tests and publish images)
    • Scalable RAN Simulator → on going; hopefully done in Jun.
    • Dependency update → dependabot has been busy; resolving 1-by-1 (waiting on GitHub Actions)
  • OnRamp Update Bilal Saleem 
    • Separate Management Node → Dealing with local charts was the complication
    • Dueling Docker installs → Ansible playbook now checks for existing Docker, per Docker best practices
    • Check that multiple gNBs work for data plane
    • Working on proposal for incorporating scalable Core into OnRamp
  • QA Update Kunal Kapoor 
    • JJB code commit is done
    • Working on updating Readme and streamlining the code as per the current requirement.
    • David Ferguson (Deactivated) :  Customizing the job as opposed to customizing the build machine (so can dynamically grab and release VMs)

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  • Archive "tiny" (unused) repos [Gabriel]
    • As part of release 1.4, several repos were consolidated into the "util" repo
  • Do a patch release for Docker images (1.4.1) [Gabriel]
    • New Helm Chart also just published
    • Expect a PR to update OnRamp
  • Working on a blueprint for a DPDK configuration
  • SD-Core Roadmap Discussion
    • What's the process
      • We have an old Google Doc
      • Move it in the Wiki
      • Community contributes
    • How do we move past Release 15?
      • Start with OpenAPI spec for R17
      • Generate code (and test/fix)
      • Results in the wish-list
  • SD-RAN Status
    • Training new contributors
      • To document in a new wiki page for future onboarding
    • Jenkins to Github action conversion for SD-RAN is mostly done
      • Expect to complete this week 
  • ROC Status
    • PR now merged
    • New Helm Chart published by GitHub Action
    • New version (2.1.36) was published => it did not exist (but has been used by OnRamp)
    • What gives???
  • OnRamp Status
    • Bilal looking into two issues
    • Docker issue when deploying in CloudLab
    • Local helm charts on master node
  • JJB Status
    •  Testing on AWS (Goal is to be re-producible)
    • Automate Jenkins job creation using JJB and definitions from git repo
      • Seed Job on builtin node to pull the latest changes in aether-jenkins repo - Done.
      • Cron job to update the jobs in Jenkins. 
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