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
   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. 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
   8. 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 o-ran-sc and contribute.
   9. 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
   10. 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 licenses.
             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.
   11. Vote for non realtime RIC PTL
       1. Proposal from Martin Skorupski from High Street.  Berlin software company. 
       2. Proposals from IBM and Ericsson deadline.  
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.)

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.

2019 06 26

zoom meeting recording (audio): toc-20190626-audio.m4a

Agenda

1. Call for Scribe (minutes owner)Lusheng Ji

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
   Deutsche Telekom	David Streibl	Y
   NTT DOCOMO	Toshiro Kawahara
   Orange	Vincent Danno	Y
   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 2 Meetings because we did not have a quorum last week. 
   1. Review and approve meeting minutes for 2019-06-19: Moved by Jack, seconded by David, 3-0-1 passed
   2. Review and approve meeting minutes for 2019-06-12: Moved by Jack, seconded by David, 4-0-0 passed
4. Review of Today's Agenda
5. Status of Open Action Items (Old Business)
   1. Action/ @Trishan de Lanerolleprovide.  Provide user-2057e the ability to take a poll on https://lists.o-ran-sc.org/g/main/topics. ( Trishan de Lanerolle <tdelanerolle@linuxfoundation.org> replaced Phil Robb from LF)
      1. Plugin identified
   2. 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.
   3. Action / John Murray Jack send out the CLA to the list.
      1. Jack: not sent out yet due to board delaying their vote for needing extra time to review, board will conduct email vote before July 10th.  Reviewed by EC and introduced and discussed at board, very close to final but still need board to vote.  Charter/license/CLA go together.  Anyone wants text for legal review, contact the cochairs
         1. Vincent: how to enforce CLA
            Andrew G: Gerrit supports CLA. When configured so, Gerrit will only accept contribution unless CLA signed.  Most LF projects have corp CLA (corp CLA has a management delegate, who can whitelist individuals or email domain).  Individual can choose either one, can contribute under either.  Jack to contact Scott for corp CLA.  Entire Gerrit site will take one CLA.  Jack to take this offline
   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. Lusheng: New repo request email sent to mailing list, waiting for more ToC votes.
   5. Action / user-59b16 put the slides that were reviewed at the Tuesday night TOC in Tokyo in the community page.

      1. Rittwik: doc updated on 19th. To put out newer version: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/EV/Presentations

   6. Action / TOC Vote for PTL nominees.
      1. user-d3360 for Integration and Test team  this is for software testing not O-RAN Alliance or ETE testing.  This testing will be pulling together the software package.
         1. Self intro
         2. Moved by Jack, Seconded by Vincent, 3-0, passed
      2. Matti Hiltunen will lead the xApp project as PTL. Lead platform architect.  Built the xApps from the beginning.  Experienced with ONAP projects in the past.
         1. Action / user-d3360 send out a mail regarding the PTL nominations above.
         2. Self intro,
         3. Moved by Jack, Seconded by David, 4-0, passed
   7. Tracy Van Brakle proposed for the PTL Martin Skorupsk fori non real time RIC. 
      1. Action / Tracy Van Brakle send out the proposal to the mail list.
      2.  Proposal: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3604742
      3. Martin self intro, discussion
      4. Jack: to give more time to review, table the vote till next week.
      5. Martin:  info. Presentation to come at Rutgers: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/ORAN/non-rt-ric%3A+Project+events
   8. Scott Daniels is not able to commit his code.  Action / Chris Lott Open a ticket with LF.  Work with Lusheng J

      1. Chris Lott request a ToC vote on reactivating Scott Daniels as committer for ric-plt/lib/rmr

      2. Moved by Jack, Seconded by David, 4-0 passed

6. Standing Agenda Items (Brief Status of Ongoing Activities)
1. Release Manager/Release Planning: Weekly TOC Scheduling
   1. Release planning link

   2. Jack: Propose to add two review points to calendar for executing agreement with O-RAN Alliance during Tokyo meeting

2. Report out from PTL: Stand-Up & Report Out on Blockers

3. Test & Integration Planning

4. Report Out of Sub-Committees
   1. status of requirements for Release A.  To close this Friday
   2. Jack: updated community on status of SC report to O-RAN Alliance F2F: well received; TSC pleased to see how fast SC has progressed.

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.
   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
8. Planning for Next Meeting
9. Open Discussion
10. Any Other Business (AOB)
11. Meeting Summary (resolutions, new action items, etc.)
    1. Votes:
       1. Review and approve meeting minutes for 2019-06-19: Moved by Jack, seconded by David, 3-0 passed
       2. Review and approve meeting minutes for 2019-06-12: Moved by Jack, seconded by David, 4-0 passed
       3. user-d3360 for Integration and Test project PTL: Moved by Jack, Seconded by Vincent, 3-0, passed
       4. Matti Hiltunen for xApp project as PTL: Moved by Jack, Seconded by David, 4-0, passed
       5. Reactivating Scott Daniels as a committer for ric-plt/lib/rmr: Moved by Jack, Seconded by David, 4-0 passed
    2. Actions
       1. Action user-2057e put out a poll to name for release A.
       2. Action / John Murray Jack send out the CLA to the list.
       3. Action / user-d3360 send the request to the LF for repo creation and JIRA project creation
       4. Action John Murraysend out email proposal for ToC to vote on Requirements and Software Architecture subcommittee chair
       5. Action user-59b16hold call on introducing the infrastructure project contributions
       6. Action user-2057e organize call with Wind River and Inspur