Technical Charter for O-RAN Software Community

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2019 07 10

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner)

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	x
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	x
   NTT DOCOMO	Masafumi Masuda	x
   Orange	Vincent Danno	x
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
   1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jinri and seconded by David the minutes of the July 3, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
      1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action / user-2057e provide results for vote on release A name. 
      1. 17 votes and winning is color amber currently.  Deadline is the end of the month.
      2. Action/ user-2057e - update the access for the poll.
   2. Action / John Murray CLA status.
      1. CLA (ORAN charter, license) have been shared with LF and waiting for the approval of the ORAN license which was targeted for today.  There were communication problems that did not get all the information to the board members.  Pushing hard to get it finalized this week to get approved.  The ORAN members will push to figure out how to get this moving quickly to get on the ORAN site and get the CLA set up. 
         1. There are two so people can clearly pick which ones they want to manage.  LF has a platform dedicated to CLAs. LF will put it in place once approved.
         2. You sign the license once and not for each project.  Once you approve / accept license it is for all LF projects.  You don't have to accept the license multiple times across projects or repos.
            1. It may take longer than a week to turn around.
   3. Action/ Jinri send a draft of the ORAN license to Peter Moonki Hong.
      1. Samsung wanted to send me the email first.  I didn't receive his email.  I talked to Jun and sent him the license.
   4. Action / Trishan de Lanerolle provide user-d3360 with the LF process of setting up Sonarcube (unit test software quality) and Nexus IQ (dependency security and license compatibility).
      1. Lusheng - LF does support Sonar cloud not Sonar cube.  Costs are included.  We will work out the details of scanning our workflow.  We have a dashboard repo for the sonar scans.e
         1. Trishan - If you open a ticket we can set up github mirror.  
         2. Jinri - Regarding Nexus IQ Can we use this service to scan the code?
            1. Once seed code is moved into repo we need to create a jenkins job to do the scan.
   5. Action / Jack Send a reminder about nominating Rittwik as PTL for the Requirements Software and Architecture Committee (RSAC).
      1. Vote was done through email and Rittwik Jana will be the PTL.
         1. Jira status - Lusheng asked LF to create the RSAC Near Real Time RIC and Testing.  So far two projects were created.  Near real time RIC and Testing.  PTL has to login to the Jira project first so I sent a reminder to the two PTLs.  Matti and Rittwik will login when they return from the 
   6. Action /Jack - Report progress of NRTRIC proposals for PTLs from IBM and Ericsson.
      1. Jack - I received an email last night from Ericsson.
         1. John Keeney from Ericsson wants to have a call with Jack later on to get a more detailed discussion about the PTL.
            1. Action / John Keeney send out a proposal to the TOC email list for the non real time RIC proposal from Ericsson.   John Keeney is based out of Ireland.  Wants to contribute to the Near real time RIC project.
               1. Jack - Ericsson mentioned supporting 6 headcount in Non real time RIC.  All the TOC members need to participate and learn about the two proposal.  IBM did not submit a proposal.  Ericsson has come back with some information on their proposal and they are asking for an extension of one week for their proposal for Nrt-RIC.  High Street also has a proposal for a RIC PTL on the table.
                  1. Jinri - I vote we allow Ericsson an extra week or two due to vacation season.
                     1. Vincent - agrees with Jinri
                     2. Jack - agrees to give them one week so that we can make a clearer decision next week on the two proposals.  If not clear enough then look at it as quickly as possible.  
                     3. John Keeney - Thank you and one week should be more than enough.
   7. Action / Jack - Send out email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair.
      1. Rittwik Jana is the chair and was voted this week.
   8. Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTL
      1. Proposal from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  Berlin software company. 
      2. Waiting for proposals from IBM and Ericsson.
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link
      1. We continue to slip we should be starting our preparation for test cases sprint planning and design.  We are behind with the near real time RIC and xApps have activity in this space but because of the vacation season it is not progressing quickly now. Most likely we are not going to meet our M2 freeze.  We will have to discuss (on the mail list) to reduce a develeopment sprint or expand into December.  The goal is to see how far we can advance.  Comments or thoughts?
2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non real time RIC

3. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

   1. We will move forward with Nexus IQ and Sonar cube.
   2. Nrt-RIC having issues with pushing LF registries.  WIP.
   3. Continuously working with RSAC to finalize the epics.  We had a number of items with potential contributions.  We need to clarify the boundries between this test team the ORAN Alliance test team.  I found who the potential contributors so I will set up a call with them.
      1. Action/ user-d3360 provide update.
4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik

7. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

   1. Jack - I saw an email on Altran who would like to contribute to UE and we also have an Ericsson item.
   2. Lusheng - regards to Thoralf Czichy for a repo.  Regarding many repos.  It is easier to manage a team.  Committers need to understand all the code.  The CI tool chain is organized per repos such as scanning and building jobs.  When you have a project when subcomponents are being integrated into a single jenkins job it is difficult.  That is why we want to have many sub-components.  If you have many sub directories the jenkins jobs triggered will trigger detection and run over all the sub directories.  It takes a long time.  The IT recommendation was to create multiple repos.  From an integration, test and LF perspective both groups recommend creating separate repos.  From CI it is easier.  
   3. Jack called a Vote to approve the repos requested by NrtRIC for ASA1 code.  Jinri seconded the motion.
      1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   4. Vincent - ONS Europe
   5. Simplification of the Near Real Time and Non-real time RIC.  Action/ Jinri Huang come up with a naming convention that does not confuse the user.
8. Any Other Business (AOB)
9. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)

2019 07 03

zoom meeting recording (video): toc-20190703-video.mp4

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu (AT&T)

2. Roll Call & Quorum Check 

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

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
   1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jinri and seconded by Jack the minutes of the June 26, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
      1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
4. Review of Today's Agenda
   1. Jinri - Noticed the Xiaohua from Windriver is online and would like to discuss Windriver and the new repo for the 
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/ user-2057e put out a poll to select a fish and which fish name for release A.  Try not to pick a complicated name.
      1. Wait for plugin
      2. Poll for fish and color, let voters choose.
   2. Action / user-2057e provide results for vote on release A name. 
   3. Action / John Murray Jack send out the CLA to the list.
      1. It is not necessary to sign up for each individual repos.  Sign up for ORAN license and that will cover all the repos in the projects.
      2. Jinri - suggestion to put the CLA on the software community website.  
         1. Jack - we will link to the CLA from the ORAN-SC wiki to the ORAN.
         2. Peter Moonki Hong - Please provide a guide of when the vote for the ORAN license will be completed for approval?
            1. Jinri - On the board meeting 3 legal documents were presented.  The board did not have enough time to review.  The new time for approval will be July 10.
               1. Jack - Can you provide Peter with a preliminary license? Action/ Jinri send a copy to Peter Moonki Hong.
   4. Action / user-d3360 send the request to the mail list for creating the new repos and projects include the projects names that were voted on.  Have the TOC approve 10 projects and their committers like we did for NRT RIC and Thoralf.
      1. There are 4 projects
         1. Near Real Time RIC
         2. Integration and Testing
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link

   2. We are running late on our schedule.  We have to get the requirements and software requirements PTL.

   3. Jack will add a new horizontal row at the bottom that will be ORAN action items.  We will have two synch reviews with them as a part of our planning process.
2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non Real Time RIC
   2. Software Requirements subcomittees PTLs
   3. Bring a proposal and self nominate yourself as a PTL for the various sub-projects.  If you have an interest then reach out and get involved.  There is help and support for the team.
   4. Ganesh from Radisys.  I would like to propose someone from Radisys and will send a message out tomorrow.  Who can support him?  
      1. Jack and Lusheng can support the projects and process.  Trishan can support LF IT process.
   5. Xiaohua Zhang from Wind River will also propose a PTL for infrastructure.
   6. Lusheng - LF can assist with setting up Sonarcube (unit test software quality) and Nexus IQ (dependency security and license compatibility).  What is the process of setting it up?  Action / Trishan de Lanerolle provide user-d3360 with the LF process of setting these tools up.

3. Test & Integration Planning

   1. Lusheng - We are finalizing the release A epics with the integration and testing team.  A couple epics were proposed by contributors however they were along use case testing.  Who does the end to end testing?
      1. Do we have an ORAN representative for their testing focus group?
         1. Jinri - before Tokyo meeting the TI consisted of three members.  During the TSC meeting two weeks ago.  There are more than ten people.  Delegates from AT&T and China Mobile.
            1. We want ORAN Alliance speak to how we're implementing and supporting the specifications.
            2. We will do unit and integration testing but ORAN will test to see if the code meets their specifications.  
4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Software Requirements and Architecture - David Kinsey We are waiting on OCU requirements from China Mobile.  
      1. Jinri - In China Mobile we are evaluating the seed code from legal perspective.  Currently we can not upload seed code therefore we are hesitant to commit.
         1. Once Jira is done we will baseline the document and it will be frozen.  It won't make the "A" release.
         2. Jinri - it is still pending.  
            1. Then it may slide out to seed code in "B" release.
   2. Jack - I put out a vote for Rittwik as the lead for Requirements Software Aarchitecture Committee subcommittee. Action / Jack Send a reminder.

7. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

   1. WG 6 on epic descriptions for infrastructure
      1. David: WG6 requesting a call to understand contributions, with 3 Epic requirements owners.  Not enough info for WG6 to comment.
         1. Rittwik: get contacts from Lusheng then arrange call
   2. Code contribution from Inspur is fork of StartlingX components make by Wind River and discussion
      1. Inspur has no rep on this call.  Will hold meeting with Wind River and Inspur.  David to take the lead.
         1. Jinri - I was on a call with Debbie from Inspur.  What does Inspur plan to do with repo. 
            1. Xiaohua We would like to see more people use StartlingX.  We should put something in oran-sc and contribute.
   3. PTL for Software Req and Arch sub committee discussion, impact delaying Jira epic
      1. Jack to send out email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair.
      2. Call for more volunteers to the PTLs and leadership roles
   4. Xiaohua from Wind River is online and would like to discuss Wind River's and the new repo.
      1. Repo name PTI (performance tuned infrastructure) under infrastructure project.
         1. GPL and Apache
            1. GPL for real time kernel.
            2. Jack - I am not going to call a vote because this is the first request for a GPL license and how that will fit in the structure.  
               1. GPL has restrictions of how it can be used and we need to take the discussion online and get input.  It requires further discussion.
   5. Vote for PTLs non realtime RIC
      1. Proposal from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  Berlin software company. 
      2. Proposal from IBM and Ericsson are not ready.  They asked for another week to move the proposal forward.  
      3. Jack will delay the vote by one week to allow the other companies make their proposals.
         1. Jinri - It is good to see more contributors to this area.
         2. Tracy - I am hoping the other companies have deadlines to submit their proposals.  We would like to move forward with making the release schedule for release A.
            1. Action /Jack - We will review their proposal next Wednesday.
8. Any Other Business (AOB)
9. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
   1. Votes
      1. The minutes of the prior meeting were reviewed, and there were no corrections. On motion made by Jinri and seconded by Jack the minutes of the June 26, 2019 meeting were the approved by the TOC members. 
         1. VOTE: Vote taken, item passed.
   2. Actions
      1. Action / user-2057e provide results for vote on release A name. 
      2. Action / John Murray CLA status.
      3. Action/ Jinri send a draft of the ORAN license to Peter Moonki Hong.
      4. Action / Trishan de Lanerolle provide user-d3360 with the LF process of setting up Sonarcube (unit test software quality) and Nexus IQ (dependency security and license compatibility).
      5. Action / Jack Send a reminder about nominating Rittwik as PTL for the Requirements Software and Architecture Committee (RSAC).
      6. Action /Jack - Report progress of nrtRIC proposals for PTLs from IBM and Ericsson.

Back to Todays Agenda

2019 07 17

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner) Farheen Cefalu (AT&T)

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	Vincent Danno
   Verizon	Viswa Kumar

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

3. Review and Agree to Minutes of Previous Meeting
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action / user-2057e provide results for vote on release A name. 
   2. Action / John Murray CLA status.
   3. Action/ Jinri send a draft of the ORAN license to Peter Moonki Hong.
   4. Action / Trishan de Lanerolle provide user-d3360 with the LF process of setting up Sonarcube (unit test software quality) and Nexus IQ (dependency security and license compatibility).
   5. Action / Jack Send a reminder about nominating Rittwik as PTL for the Requirements Software and Architecture Committee (RSAC).
   6. Action /Jack - Report progress of nrtRIC proposals for PTLs from IBM and Ericsson.
   7. Action / Jack - Send out email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair.
   8. Action / TOC - Vote for non realtime RIC PTL
      1. Proposal from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  Berlin software company. 
      2. Waiting for proposals from IBM and Ericsson.
6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link
2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers
   1. Non Real Time RIC

3. Test & Integration Planning - Lusheng

4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. Requirements Software Architecture Committee - Rittwik

7. New Agenda Items (New Business): New Items Submitted (+speaker) & Open Call to TOC For Additional Items

8. Any Other Business (AOB)
9. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)