Hi,
Below are the Nov 15th's OS Distro meeting minutes:
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Nov 15, 2023
Attendees: Charles S., Tianyu Li, Scott L., Jackie Huang, Linda, Davlet
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1.General Topic
      1.1 Log into the git before download the source. 
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How to pass the credential through the tooling layer when log into git repo.
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Workaround: currently use repo sync outside of the containers. 
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AI: Scott to write up a feature request for the tool - file a request in Story Board.
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2. ARM Support
      2.1 Equipment
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Steve gave the addresses for the location of the hosts, 4 in Alameda (for CI/CD server for testing), and 2 in Ottawa lab (build process) ,
 2 were returned
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ARM is sending those machines to these locations. Steve update the address of the Ottawa office.
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2 machines for ARM has already been setup in Ottawa Lab. Installed with Debian OS. So needs IT to put them on the right network.
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AI: Jackie will share the setup information with Scott to help setup the ARM server. Q: Need Mike M., to help allocate time.
 
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2.2 CI/CI Update
 
- CI/CD try to set up the workflow in ARM's local lab (ARM's Shanghai
 Lab), applied Jackie's patches, but may still need more patches to do builds. 
 - Tianyu is trying to reproduce the environment in local lab, but still
 have some error on generating the ISO image. 
 - Still have the same problem. Can't generate the ISO image as needed
 from Jenkins, so will need help from the Jackie, will need to get help from Jackie. 
 - Q: TianYu to reach out to Rob Cook directly to get help on testing
 infrastructure.
 - Took 20 hours to build the packages. Very time consuming, some time
 out and driver issues. Some difficult to get to next stage.
 
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2.3 ARM Port
 
- Porting still in progreess (Jakie) 
 - Not spending much time in this area
 - Rebase all the code to latest master, send all the code reivews 
 - There are 37 code reviews, and there are 36 reviews pending.
 - Code reviewers are different for different repos. 3- 4 weeks ago
 - Packages for x86_64 are in CNGN, need to push ARM packages there.
 - CNGN mirror only sync the mirror? 
 - We have enough disk space, add another arch support for the mirror. 
 - Need man power to help get the mirror to support ARM?  Q: Another
 people resource question to Mike M.
 - Need to change meta-lat layer for ELF SDK, but want to link the
 task to different repo, not yet done.
 
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2.4 OSTree
 
- removing OSTree from the installer ISO.  (not from the StarlingX)
 - Work in progress, not sure when it will be ready. Possible early
 next year, StarlingX 9.
 
3. StarlingX 9.0
- SPEC from Chuck on OSTree generation on the controller, pending review.
 - Using OSTree to do upgrade management 
 - Will pull in several packages in to branch. 
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Still in Progress.
 
Next Meeting: Nov 29, 2023