Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2019 11 20

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda
   Orange	William Diego		Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a quorum and can vote on activities.

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings

4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
6. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
   2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
   3. Action/ Jinri Huang  will add the F2F meeting minutes to the events page. 27 Nov 2019 
   4. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
   5. Action/ John Murray closing the remaining the TOC slots.
   6. Action/ user-d3360 update the TOC with the status of branching Amber on 20 Nov 2019 
   7. Action / John Murray We will vote on the licensing next week 20 Nov 2019 regarding the License Attribution Records
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Project Readiness for Amber Release
   2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
         1. A reminder to the extra line Nokia wanted in source files for near-RT RIC to add this sentence: "This source code is part of the near-RT RIC (Radio Intelligent Controller) platform project (RICP)." (see also Scope of the near-RT RIC platform and its components (summary)). This is to clearly define the scope of the project to near-RT RIC. This was discussed earlier and Jack was supposed to come back with solution to this.
      3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
      4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
      5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
      6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
      7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
      8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
      9. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)
      10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
      11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
   4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
8. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
9. Planning for Next Meeting
10. Open Discussion
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2019 11 13

Zoom meeting 

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

   Company	Contact Name	Attendance	Alternate Contact	Attendance
   AT&T	Jack Murray Co-Chair	x
   China Mobile	Jinri Huang Co-Chair
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	William Diego	x	Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

   *Quorum: 50% or more of total TSC voting members unless excluded due to attendance.  We have a quorum and can vote on activities.

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meetings

   1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.
   2. Vote to approve minutes for 06 Nov 2019 
   3. On motion made by user-2057e
   4. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
   5. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. Jack saw the initial draft of the framework for the O-RAN SC marketing plan and needs to review.  Comments from participating companies is encouraged.  We are entering the window of time to get approvals to get a quote.  Those interested reach out to Jinri Huang and copy John Murray.
6. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
   2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
   3. Action/ Jinri Huang  will add the F2F meeting minutes to the events page. 27 Nov 2019 
   4. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
   5. Action/ John Murray closing the remaining the TOC slots.
   6. Action/ user-d3360 update the TOC with the status of branching Amber on 20 Nov 2019 
   7. Action / John Murray We will vote on the licensing next week 20 Nov 2019 regarding the License Attribution Records
7. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
   1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
      1. Project Readiness for Amber Release
         1. we are in week 44. At this point we should be preparing to branch the code.
            1. Yes, branching now vs. later.  Now there will be significant changes made on both branches vs. later less items to change.
               1. No prepare for branching.  Not actually branching.  We are fixing and freezing that has to be wrapped up by the end of next week so we have one week to address any issues in the package.
   2. user-d3360 Test & Integration Planning (INT)
      1. Project Readiness for Amber Release 
      2. The teams have made good progress in turning the cells in the link above to green.
      3. What areas should we focus on to close.
         1. Producing the documentation and the minimum requirement for documentation are the release notes.
      4. Licensing License Attribution Records.  LF has a scanning process for code licenses. They will be scanning licenses that we are pulling from an upstream source are being generated by a tool.  The community should take the time to review License Attribution Records.
      5. What is the next milestone to hit by this Friday from the TOC?
         1. Was hoping to have all the cells green by today but will wait until Friday 15 Nov 2019 .  We need this done to branch the Amber code.  We need to complete the branching by next weeks meeting. 20 Nov 2019 .  
         2.  
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC)
         
         1. request to approve one new repo and committer changes for two existing repos as per this e-mail
            1. When we request changes from LF Aric Gardner has info.yml files for committer management.  This will be done through gerrit.  Need TOC and LF approval. 
               1. This will be handled in Bronze.
      3. user-a934b O-RAN Centralized Unit (OCU)
      4. Sachin Srivastava O-RAN Distributed Unit High (ODUHIGH)
      5. Zhimin Yuan O-RAN Distributed Unit Low (ODULOW)
      6. Martin Skorupski Operations and Maintenance (OAM)
      7. Alex Stancu Simulations (SIM)
      8. Xiaohua Zhang Infrastructure (INF)
      9. weichen ni Documentation (DOC)
         1. Thoralf: need to discuss how we know when a repo/subproject is done. So far not all is visible in readthedocs it seems.
            
      10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
          1. Henrik Andersson as a committer for the Non-RealTime RIC . 
          2. Motion made by John Keeney 
          3. Seconded by user-2057e
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
      11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
   4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
8. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
9. Planning for Next Meeting
10. Open Discussion
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes

       1. The minutes of the prior meetings were reviewed, and there were no comments, questions or corrections.

          1. Vote to approve minutes for 06 Nov 2019 

          2. On motion made by user-2057e

          3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA

          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed

       2. Add Henrik Andersson as a committer for the Non-RealTime RIC . 
          1. Motion made by John Keeney 
          2. Seconded by user-2057e
          3. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
       2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
       3. Action/ Jinri Huang  will add the F2F meeting minutes to the events page. 27 Nov 2019 
       4. Action/ user-59b16 Alignment and adjust OAI code to be compliant with O-RAN Alliance.  This is an architectural review of fitting the code.
       5. Action/ John Murray closing the remaining the TOC slots.
       6. Action/ user-d3360 update the TOC with the status of branching Amber on 20 Nov 2019 
       7. Action / John Murray We will vote on the licensing next week 20 Nov 2019 regarding the License Attribution Records

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