20190822- TSC Meeting Notes - 830AM Pacific / 2100 IST

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Last updated: Oct 03, 2019 by Aaron Williams
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Agenda for Project EVE TSC

Recording of meeting: https://zoom.us/recording/play/tkMZB8ob8mawCSVT0gSsgJhqLgnl5LlTkIfzS_LD7vpDaQqM0_1cGk9BdgLGVlW1

Roll call of TSC members

Allen Wittenauer

Avi Deitcher

Bharani Chadalavada

Chirag Kantharia







x Erik Nordmark

Gianluca Guida

x Gopi Krishna Kodali 

x Greg Chase





x Harihara Subhramanian CS

x Kalyan Nidumolu

Rob Woolley

Roman Shaposhnik 





Sahil Satpute

Saurabh Singh

x Srinibas Maharana

Vijay Tapaskar

Allen Wittenauer

Avi Deitcher

Bharani Chadalavada

Chirag Kantharia







x Erik Nordmark

Gianluca Guida

x Gopi Krishna Kodali 

x Greg Chase





x Harihara Subhramanian CS

x Kalyan Nidumolu

Rob Woolley

Roman Shaposhnik 





Sahil Satpute

Saurabh Singh

x Srinibas Maharana

Vijay Tapaskar

Additional attendees:

Acceptance of prior minutes 

No dissent.

TSC Decisions & Discussions via Email list

  • Controller address and security (Avi)

  • structure arguments - pass by reference or pass by value (Sankar)

  • Coding convention for EVE - use Ptr suffix for Pointer Variables (Kalyan) (agreed & closed)

  • Targeting Xen 4.13 (Roman)

  • [FEATURE PROPOSAL] Encrypting Sensitive Information at Rest at the Edge (Harihara) (agreed & closed, related to data security APIs proposal - see below)

  • Adding newline at the end of error messages (Roman)

  • Proposal for moving datastore configuration handling to downloader (Srinibas) (Agreed & closed)

Old Business

  • Project EVE roadmap

    • Security of EVE

    • Reference controller implementation for EVE API

    • Support for additional hypervisors

    • Support for additional hardware

    • Improve developer-user experience

    • Edge Container definition & support

    • Action ← Greg to turn the above bullets into a proposed roadmap

    • Intra-device state change publish, subscribe, notification (PubSub)

  • EVE API discussion: return codes for various operations - API call by API call discussion, will be evolved release by release ← we need to make sure that return codes are correctly documented ← Sankar  - still working on this.  Updates should go into this document: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/blob/master/api/API.md

  • Continue alternating office hours for Europe & Asia friendly times? ← Continue, no dissent

  • Proposal for Data Security APIs (Srinibas) ← Greg to organize special proposal review call call with Erik, Srinibas, Hari, Kalyan, Roman are present.  Note related to security design proposals.

New Business

  • Convention for rounding up email thread discussions: TSC moderator to survey prior email discussions.  Mark if thread is open or closed & decided in next month's TSC meeting minutes.