Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2019 11 27

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
   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. Release Votes and Approval
   1. Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
   2. Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
   3. Vote on the official release of Amber and  branches.  Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software.
   4. Project Readiness for Amber Release.  Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release. 
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
      1. Rittwik: AT&T provided the input.  He was looking for other operators.
      2. Jack - We have a draft we are working through the press release on Tuesday. We got feedback from EC, LF and a few participants offered some quotes for the press release.  We moved this to the O-RAN Alliance to review and final approval.  They will release the code on Tuesday.  Major item remaining is that the marketing team would like us to improve the feature descriptions that are coming out in this release.  They feel it is too technical.  Outsiders won't understand as much.  We are rounding out the descriptions that will have broader appeal.  We want to get the facts in there to communicate the details.
      3. We are uploading the epics into the wiki.  By next Wednesday meeting I will go through the epics.
   2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
      1. Tracy - POC plugfest North America is next Thursday.  We are on track. Most is working in the lab.  Video of overall demo and each equipment vendor will be demonstrating their use cases.  Not all will be demonstrating.  The video will be stored and available on the wiki.
   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.
      1. Rittwik - No progress yet.  Chilin is working on slides to get the word out of the Amber release.
   5. Action/ John Murray closing the remaining the TOC slots.
      1. Reviewed analytics https://test.lfanalytics.io/projects/o-ran
      2. Action / user-d3360 sent a note to Agnes and copy Trishan de Lanerolle regarding the documentation repo analytics on https://test.lfanalytics.io/projects/o-ran.
   6. Action/ user-d3360 add record and date of the approved licenses on License Attribution Records wiki page.
8. 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)
      1. We have a table for tracking our progress for releasing the remaining tasks that have to be completed to ready our release.  Reviewed Releasing Amber Tasks. 
         1. Action/PTLs update Releasing Amber Taskswith all of your tasks and a short video like OTF by 29 Nov 2019 
      2. After the TSC meeting we will start our integration and test meeting.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
10. Planning for Next Meeting
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2019 11 27

2019-11-20_toc_audio_only.m4a

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
   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. Release Votes and Approval
   1. Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
   2. Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
   3. Vote on the official release of Amber and  branches.  Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software.
   4. Project Readiness for Amber Release.  Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release. 
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
7. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/Jinri Huang  will create a framework  for the O-RAN SC marketing plan.
      1. Rittwik: AT&T provided the input.  He was looking for other operators.
      2. Jack - We have a draft we are working through the press release on Tuesday. We got feedback from EC, LF and a few participants offered some quotes for the press release.  We moved this to the O-RAN Alliance to review and final approval.  They will release the code on Tuesday.  Major item remaining is that the marketing team would like us to improve the feature descriptions that are coming out in this release.  They feel it is too technical.  Outsiders won't understand as much.  We are rounding out the descriptions that will have broader appeal.  We want to get the facts in there to communicate the details.
      3. We are uploading the epics into the wiki.  By next Wednesday meeting I will go through the epics.
   2. Action / Tracy Van Brakle and Martin Skorupski to align and document the plugfest plan for a demo video.
      1. Tracy - POC plugfest North America is next Thursday.  We are on track. Most is working in the lab.  Video of overall demo and each equipment vendor will be demonstrating their use cases.  Not all will be demonstrating.  The video will be stored and available on the wiki.
   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.
      1. Rittwik - No progress yet.  Chilin is working on slides to get the word out of the Amber release.
   5. Action/ John Murray closing the remaining the TOC slots.
      1. Reviewed analytics https://test.lfanalytics.io/projects/o-ran
      2. Action / user-d3360 sent a note to Agnes and copy Trishan de Lanerolle regarding the documentation repo analytics on https://test.lfanalytics.io/projects/o-ran.
   6. Action/ user-d3360 add record and date of the approved licenses on License Attribution Records wiki page.
8. 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)
      1. We have a table for tracking our progress for releasing the remaining tasks that have to be completed to ready our release.  Reviewed Releasing Amber Tasks. 
         1. Action/PTLs update Releasing Amber Tasks with all of your tasks and a short video like OTF by 29 Nov 2019 
      2. After the TSC meeting we will start our integration and test meeting.
   3. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
      1. Matti Hiltunen RIC Applications (RICAPP) 
      2. Thoralf Czichy RIC Platform (RIC) 
      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
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
10. Planning for Next Meeting
11. Any Other Business (AOB) 
12. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes - No quorum
    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/PTLs update Releasing Amber Tasks  and create a short video like OTF by 29 Nov 2019 

2019 11 20

Zoom meeting: 2019-11-20_toc_audio_only.m4a

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
   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.
      1. Vote to approve minutes for 13 Nov 2019 
      2. On motion made by William DIEGO
      3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
      4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Release Votes and Approval
   1. Have a wiki link with all the release info in one place (in process)
      1. Gather all items related to the Amber Release under Amber Release (Nov 2019) on this wiki.
   2. Vote to accept the license scan and upstream licenses are approved for use. These have been reviewed with LF and are normal.
      1. LF code scans, code licenses, and code clean up work status. 
      2. TSC will take a vote to approve upstream licenses that are compatible within our projects. 
      3. This will be repeated at every release.
      4. Lusheng - LF sends us a spreadsheet that lists all the red and yellow items that have failed the scan.  
         1. binary issues have all been addressed.
         2. non-binary have been scanned. 
         3. Attribution tab these are the files hosted in our repo and they are not Apache 2 license.  Common practice is to copy from another open project into our project code.  As long as the foreign code license is not copy left.  As long as it is open source friendly it is legally safe to practice.  Foreign code files should contain their own license claims and should be highlighted as non open source compatible.
         4. We follow the LF practice about foreign code from the License Attribution Records page.  You will find the best practices for license attribution friendliness.  
         5. We want TOC approval for the Request to Approve section of License Attribution Records
            1. Vote to approve Request to Approve referencing and using the additional licenses for the open source software community from section of License Attribution Records.  
            2. On motion made by user-d3360
            3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
            4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
         6. Action/ user-d3360 add record and date of the approved licenses on License Attribution Records. (user-d3360: completed 11/21)
   3. Vote on the official release of Amber and  branches.  Vote to approve the branching and release of the Amber software. 
      1. Project Readiness for Amber Release.  Lusheng asking to accept all the repos on the Project Readiness for Amber Release for the branching of the Amber release. 
      2. Where do we put the video demos?
         1. Not appropriate on gerrit.  We will have to display videos on this wiki.
            1. Under the Amber release tab we will have a table with all the projects and videos.  That will be the release point to go to on the wiki for the Amber release.
            2. Action / Farheen Cefalu work with Jack to update the Amber Release page.
            3. The Release PR will go out Dec 3.  The final day of the release is November 30.  The guidance is to do it on a Tuesday.  The first Tuesday in December the press release will go out.  The vote today is the official designation and preparation of the Amber release.  Clean up these last remaining items to support the release by the end of November.  Once we branch we will move into the maintenance cycle to start fixing defects and moving to the maintenance release for Amber.  We will go through a similar process for each release.
            4. Approve the Amber Release and go ahead and branch all the code and related information supporting the release thereby closing the Amber release so that we can close all Amber activities by November 30 and do a press release on December 3rd for the O-RAN-SC Amber Release.  Project Readiness for Amber Release.
               1. Is the vote only for green?  
                  1. It is for green not red.
            5. Lusheng - Allow all the green repos to align with the process from this Project Readiness for Amber Release.
               1. On motion made by user-d3360
               2. Seconded by William DIEGO
               3. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
6. Marketing of the Amber release (WG, LF, PR)
   1. The key is PR.  We had an EC meeting on Monday.  We discussed the PR statement.  Jack and Jinri are working through the input from different entities.  O-RAN Alliance gave guidance along with LF.  Statement is not a lot of content.  We open it for quotes from companies related to the release.  Individual companies who want to add quotes to the statement reach out to John Murray or Jinri Huang.  There is a deadline for 27 Nov 2019  to get your quotes in.  We don't have a formal PR system but we are working through getting that sorted out through the assistance of O-RAN Alliance and LF.  
7. 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.
      1. Tracy - It's moving forward and we will record the readout on December 5th.  There are updated slides on O-RAN SC and the ONAP wiki.  
      2. Martin - For NJ there are new code artifacts based on the current repo available.  First use case of O-RAN Alliance OAM is still available.  I am confident that we will have a nice plugfest in New Jersey.
      3. There is a simplified optimization.  It will be an interesting event in both the POC and plugfest.
   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
8. 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)
      1. We will be doing a demonstration of the branching process after this call.
   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.
            1. Add it under the license
      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. Ask reviewing for documentation at https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/en/latest/, whether all Amber release repos docs are shown well on the documentation page. (ODUHIGH and ric-app-admin are finished, but the link has some delay, so not shown on the page so far. There also a couple of repos are still working on docs, almost finish.)
      10. John Keeney Non-RealTime RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) (NONRTRIC)
      11. (TBD) O-RAN Radio Unit (ORU)
   4. user-59b16 Requirements Software Architecture Committee
      1. Epics are in the spreadsheet.  Most people have contributed to the epics.  We have been going through the epics in the RSAC.
      2. Request to have all the PTLs to be review the spreadsheet of epics.
      3. Matti - we will share slides with Rittwik for xApps.
      4. Rittwik - In the spreadsheet we have classified them into higher level topic names.  These classifications are really our epics.  Please review the spreadsheet.  Next week we can briefly go over.  The next meeting we will shift from PTLs to planning and requirements software. Development meetings will start in February.
9. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items
10. Planning for Next Meeting
    1. Next week Thursday is a holiday.  There may be lighter attendance next Wednesday.  We will recap Amber and start the discussion around Bronze.
11. Open Discussion
12. Any Other Business (AOB) 
13. 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 13 Nov 2019 
          2. On motion made by William DIEGO
          3. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          4. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
       2. Vote to approve Request to Approve referencing and using the additional licenses for the open source software community from section of License Attribution Records.  
          1. On motion made by user-d3360
          2. Seconded by MASAFUMI MASUDA
          3. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed
       3. Vote to allow all the green repos to align with the process from this Project Readiness for Amber Release.
          1. On motion made by user-d3360
          2. Seconded by William DIEGO
          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 add record and date of the approved licenses on License Attribution Records. (user-d3360: completed 11-21)

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