Dial-In Information
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- 6.0 release to be called on Monday or Tuesday next week, if testing continues to look good
- 6.1 release timetable to track the Measured Launch work, which is tricky to timebox at the moment.
- -> at At present hoping for a small number of weeks rather than months
- -> No major rearchitecting of code under consideration for stable-6, no major feature additions bar the ML change
- -> Current v4v fixes to be rolled into the 6.1 release
- -> 4.4 Linux kernel tracking to also be included
- -> Security fixes as identified to be rolled in
- * 7.0 to target integration of meta-virtualization and Xen 4.6. There is a desire to include an OE update.
- -> closely Closely related to work on Xen 4.6 and 4.7
- -> Ross will create an epic to track general OE cleanup and link tickets.
- -> Jed Jed filed OXT-580 to track the work to reduce our delta vs. upstream OE recipes: https://openxt.atlassian.net/browse/OXT-580
- -> Consensus that everyone chipping away at these would be good
- -> Possibly include the libxl work - much TBD on that one.
- * Discussion between Daniel, Ross, Machon, Rich re: documenting the release process we just performed to the wiki
- -> Ross was to take this and add perspective on encountered difficulties, what worked, what we should aim to improve
- * libxl / OpenXT toolstack work is under way in personal repos on github, with a wiki page being kept up to date
- https://openxt.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DC/xl+Migration
- -> AIS team will give a presentation on the current state of the libxl toolstack work on the next community call
- * OpenEmbedded's support for Jethro appear to expire in October
- -> Rich to contact Philip Balister to obtain the definitive OE position on the project support lifecycle for OE branches and releases
- -> We likely need to look at shifting our base platform to Krogoth or its successor for the 7.0 release
- * Rich to ping Qubes team re: any potential interest in our PV-USB implementation
- -> Has been significantly improved since they last evaluated the USB stack we were using
- -> Current OpenXT USB stack has just passed our 6.0 release testing with good results
- * Security mailing list: Daniel provided Christopher with guidance on tool selection
- -> Zoho service looks OK
- -> script Script hosting environment for mail processing before forwarding to OpenXT recipients still to be determined
- * blktap3 discussion: to continue in reply to Ross's email thread on list
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Stephen Smalley - NSA
Daniel Smith - Apertus Solutions