The Release Engineering project provides automation, tooling and software infrastructure support for OPNFV projects to achieve E2E automation in order to make sure all repeating/day to day activities are run in automated fashion, the tools community relies on is up and running at all times, and release related activities are handled properly.

In short, Release Engineering project is a software development infrastructure project similar to OpenStack Infra and can be seen as OPNFV Infra project.

The scope of Release Engineering project includes

• collecting requirements from all OPNFV projects and analyze them
• putting requirements on all OPNFV projects to make sure solutions are common to all
• creating scripts and Jenkins jobs in order to automate what can be automated
• evaluating and setting up the tools that are needed
• providing software infrastructure support with regards to tools, scripts, and Jenkins jobs
• guiding OPNFV community with automation tasks
• providing documentation

Please see the Release Engineering Project Proposal for more details.

When: Weekly on Monday at 14:00-15:00 UTC
IRC channel: #opnfv-meeting@Freenode
Details: meetings/releng for upcoming agenda, previous meetings

Please note that the meeting is IRC-only.

A survey within Releng Team has been held in order to get input regarding the team logistics/WoW. The logistics/WoW is decided as below in order to keep things simple to start with.

• A change to releng repo must have at least one +2 from any committer but the owner before it can be submitted to master.
• A change to releng repo can be submitted whenever it fulfils the submit rule above.
• Releng Team holds weekly team meetings.
• Releng Team uses same meeting time/channel as Octopus Team.
• Releng Team uses #opnfv-octopus@Freenode chatroom.

Please see the survey results from this link.

Contributors:

• Shuai Chen (Huawei): chenshuai@huawei.com