Outreach NDSU 2023Q1 meetings

NDSU 2023 Q1 meeting notes (minutes)

Notes:

All dates should be in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).

See Outreach-meeting-template for the meeting template.

2023-05-05

Note: Last meeting! :(

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny
Chris & Max
Gabe
Treva
James	Out this week

Minutes

2023-05-02

Note: penultimate meeting! :(

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny
Chris & Max
Gabe	Sent apologies as has a dental appointment.
Treva
James	Out this week

Minutes

Alec and Jenny need to update their kata-ctl iptables PR and get it building with cargo. We recreated their feature branch as it was conflicted and updated the PR branch which now has a single commit as expected.
Chris and Max are working through the review feedback for their check-markdown PR.
Gabe's log-parser PR needs to be run through rustfmt to fix a lint issue.

Actions

2023-04-28

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny
Chris & Max
Gabe
Treva
James	Out this week

Minutes

James has approved Gabe's PR, so it only needs one more "ack" to land.
James has re-reviewed Alec and Jenny's iptables PR and we discussed some of the next steps briefly.
James has re-reviewed Chris and Max's markdown checker PR and made a list of suggestions on the issue.

Actions

James to send out the link to a clap derive test program: https://github.com/jamesodhunt/test-clap-derive-cli-parsing

2023-04-25

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny	Raised two iptables command draft PRs
Chris & Max	Lots of updates to the rust markdown parser
Gabe	Absent today
Treva
James

Minutes

We talked through the changes that Alec and Jenny need to perform on their draft PR.
Chris gave a demo of his and Max's rust markdown parser showing that it extracts headings and links, performs some checks and also dump some statistics.

We also turned it into a draft PR in the meeting.
We also talked about the fact that Kata builds rust code by setting RUSTFLAGS=--deny warnings, which makes even unused variables to cause a compile fail. To work around it, either run cargo build iniitially (rather than make (which sets the deny flag)), or comment out / remove the --deny warnings in the Makefile temporarily.

Related to this, James mentioned that you can also "annotate" variables/functions with the magic "allow" line below to disable the compiler warnings:
```
// XXX: The line below stops the compiler complaining.
#[allow(dead_code)]
let an_unused_variable = "foo";
```
However, when you are ready to raise a PR, you'll have to clean up all the warnings to keep the CI and the Kata reviewers happy! 😄
We also talked about make and it's somewhat obtuse syntax, plus why Kata creates Makefile's for all the tools and components.

Actions

James to review Chris and Max's rust markdown parser PR.
Alec and Jenny to go through James' review feedback to tweak their branch.
Gabe to update his log parser PR based on review feedback.

2023-04-21

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny
Chris & Max
Gabe
Treva
James

Minutes

Max absent as unwell today.
Jenny absent as away on drill.
Alec is having problems with rust lifetimes and is planning to share his code with James to see if he can help.
Chris is making progress.
Gabe's PR is mostly done. He just needs to update the doc and write some more unit tests. At that point, the PR can be taken out of draft and can be reviewed by the community.
Treva asked for us to give her hoodie sizes as she has some Kata swag!

Actions

2023-04-18

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny	Making progress with some help from Gabe.
Chris & Max	Looking at golang markdown tool for inspiration.
Gabe	More progress on draft rust log parser PR
Treva
James

Minutes

We discussed PRs and the fact that you can raise a single PR and use that "continuously" for the draft work up until the final version after all the reviewer feedback has been applied: just git push -f and GitHub will update the PR for you. Related, once a PR is ready for a final review, just remove the wip/rfc labels or comments in the PR summary line.
Chris absent as unwell.
Jenny let us know she will be out on Friday for drill.

Actions

2023-04-14

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec & Jenny	Have implemented a lot of the code and added unit tests
Chris & Max	Looking at next stage of markdown checker
Gabe	Lots of progress
Treva
James

Minutes

We talked through the next stages of what Chris and Max will need to do for the markdown checker. James has updated the issues with further details on this here:

https://github.com/kata-containers/tests/issues/5405#issuecomment-1508798773

We set up Chris' system by adding Chris's comrak test program to Chris' tests clone, configuring a chris remote (pointing to his tests fork, and pushed all the files after ensuring cargo build worked.

Gabe talked us through some of his latest changes to his rust log parser.

Actions

James needs to re-review Gabe's PR.
James to speak to Chelsea about the Alec & Jenny's latest mail on current direction of the iptables code.

2023-04-11

Agenda

Updates on actions from previous meetings.
Round robin
- Progress
- Problems
- Plan
Discussions
Presentations

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Started implementing `kata-ctl iptables` command
Chris	Wrote rust tool using `comrak` crate to walk markdown doc nodes
Gabe	Continuing to work on the rust log parser
Jenny	Absent for exams today.
Max	Starting to work on rust tool using `markdown-rs` crate
Treva	Absent.
James

Minutes

Gabe kindly offered to have a meeting with the team to explain how to set up a multi developer git environment that avoids rebasing until the very last stage (to ensure each user can git push and git pull without causing conflicts due to rebase rewriting history).
James gave a quick demo of kata-runtime iptables including proving that firewall rules applied by running iptables -vL inside VM using the debug console. Also mentioned that Alec and Jenny should enable full debug to help with testing kata-ctl iptables [get|set] ....

Actions

2023-04-07

Note:

ℹ️ Gah! James away due to Easter public holiday days in the UK.

Agenda

James on holiday so no meeting?

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

Actions

2023-04-04

Note:

ℹ️ James away - back on 5th April! ℹ️

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James	ℹ️ James away - back on 5th April

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-31

Note:

ℹ️ James away this week. ℹ️

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James	ℹ️ James away this week

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-28

Note:

ℹ️ James away this week. ℹ️

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James	ℹ️ James away this week

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-24

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James	Out this week

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-21

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Starting to get familiar with the tasks for the `kata-ctl iptables` command
Chris	Considering working on the markdown checker rewrite
Gabe	Great progress on log parser rewrite
Jenny	Unable to attend today
Max	Considering working on improvements to the data collection script
Treva	Unable to attend due to AC meeting clash
James

Minutes

Unfortunately, the timezone difference meant that the meeting clashed with the Kata AC meeting. However, next week the problem will resolve itself as the UK switches to BST/DST.
Round robin.
Chris went through some questions to help get feedback on the project status.
James gave a five minute overview of Coco.
James out all next week.

Actions

2023-03-17

Agenda

ℹ️ No meeting due to NDSU spring break. ℹ️

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-14

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

Actions

2023-03-10

Agenda

Round robin
ℹ️ approximate project midpoint [*] ℹ️
- Assess progress (and discuss contingencies if necessary).
James to do a demo of agent-ctl (and kata-ctl / kata-runtime if there is time): https://github.com/jamesodhunt/kata-and-tool-overview
Post demo, let's discuss the following issues:
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/5343 (kata-ctl, Alec)
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6230 (agent-ctl, Jenny).

[*] - We can't discuss next week due to spring break.

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

James gave presentation with demo which took rather longer than expected. Treva recorded it so Jenny can view later.

No meeting next week due to mid-term break.

Actions

2023-03-07

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

Alec, Chris, Jenny and Max are starting to investigate a rust issue to work on.

Gabe gave us a sneak preview of his rust log parser code and we tried to debug what was causing the dragonball failure. Gabe has now raised an issue so we can investigate this further:

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6424

We agreed that James would do a brief demo of agent-ctl and kata-ctl / kata-runtime on Friday. This will help with the familiarisation of these two tools, and hopefully stimulate interest in some of the ideas for these tools:

https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/NDSU---Outreach-2023-work-item-ideas

Since Jenny probably won't be able to attend, Treva will try to record Friday's session.

Actions

2023-03-03

Agenda

Round robin

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Landed first PR!
Chris	Landed first PR!
Gabe	Working on rust log parser rewrite
Jenny	Landed her first PR in the meeting! ;)
Max	Landed first PR!
Treva
James

Minutes

Actions

2023-02-28

Agenda

Round robin
- Discuss first PRs.
Question: Does everyone now have access to a Linux system?
If time, James to present on Kata unit testing in rust.

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec
Chris
Gabe
Jenny
Max
Treva
James

Minutes

We discussed some of the open PRs and why the CI was failing for them (and discussed the solution).

James talked over:

Actions

2023-02-24

Agenda

Round robin
Discuss best day+time for a 2nd weekly meeting.
If time, James to present on Kata unit testing in rust.

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Raised his first PR.
Chris	Getting familiar with Linux and ssh.
Gabe	Continuing work on rust log parser. Rust crate familiarisation.
Jenny	Absent today.
Max	Getting back to speed after being out sick.
Treva	Unable to attend today.
James

Minutes

Still waiting for real hardware to arrive. Some students now using a cloud instance for now.

Discussed having a second weekly meeting. The best time seems to be immediately after the Kata Architecture Committee meeting.

Alec offered to help Chris with Linux command line familiarisation.

Actions

James to ask Treva to setup a second weekly meeting on Tuesday immediately after the Kata AC meeting (10:00 CST / 16:00 UTC).

2023-02-17

Agenda

Round robin
Discuss:
- Potential work items
- "good first issues" - raise that "one-liner" PR! ;)
OpenStack demo from Treva.
If time, James to present on Kata unit testing in rust.

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Linux system setup issues. Starting to look at `kata-manager.sh`
Chris	Out (travelling?)
Gabe	Raised two PRs this week!
Jenny	Still needs h/w. Continuing to learn rust.
Max	Linux system setup issues. Couldn't attend meeting as unwell.
Treva	Chasing h/w for Jenny. Set up OpenStack system and demo'ed it to us.
James	Reviewed Gabe's PRs.

Actions

2023-02-10

Agenda

Round robin
Discuss:
- Potential work items
- "good first issues" - raise that "one-liner" PR! ;)
If time, James to present on Kata unit testing in rust.

Status updates

Person	Update	Blockers
Alec	Installing Kata using `kata-manager`.
Chris
Gabe	Installing Kata using `kata-manager`.
Jenny	Going to try to borrow some hardware.
Max	working on dual boot Linux setup. Needs Sata cables.
Treva	Going to send some loaned hardware to Jenny.
James	Wrote up work items list.

Actions

James to write up wiki page on follow-on tasks after installing Kata and share with team.
Team to look at the work items list and try to find one or more that look interesting to them.
- Ask questions on the wiki page or in the linked issues to get more info.

2023-02-03

General status updates (learning rust).
Review of Capstone project Initiation doc.
Problems obtaining access to a usable Linux environment.

2023-01-27

General status updates (learning rust).
Discussion around Capstone project Initiation doc.

2023-01-23

Kick off meeting.

Students introduced themselves.
James explained how the outreach project will work and a little about Kata.