OpenBMC 12/11 community telecon - Minutes

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Thx - brad

OpenBMC Community Teleconference 12/11 Minutes
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Brad B
James M
Adriana K
Vernon M
Ratan G
Shivani S
Nancy Y
James F
Jeremey K

Apologies - I know there is at least one person whose name I did not catch. Feel free to reply with an addition or correction.

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Topics discussed:
- user management - Vernon M
- power management - James M
- Yocto subtrees - James F
- Kernel update - Nancy Y
- Meeting next week - Brad B

User management:
- Vernon continued to lead a discussion around the user management
implementation proposal.
- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2017-December/010060.html
- Three key aspects: dbus API, IPMI PAM module and build abstraction
for package roles.
- The time to offer feedback is _now_.
- Brad to respond to proposal with feedback.

Power management:
- James would like to work on power control.
- Brief overview on the existing systemd based framework for that.
- Discussed possibility of a new framework for managing chassis/host
state.
- Community is open to hearing about alternative state management
frameworks.
- Brad to provide a dependency graph for the existing framework.

Yocto subtrees:
- Discussed the longer term direction for making OE updates.
- Discussed dropping support for openbmc/openbmc with subtrees.

Kernel update:
- Why was 4.13 chosen?
- It was the most recent kernel at the point work started.

Next weeks meeting:
- Do we want a call next week?
- Yes.