Weekly Meeting: 2016-02-17

Attendees: Amir, ThomasL, Mindy, Gemma, Hannes, tchell, Mort, Dave Scott, DanielB, Anil, Jeremy, ThomasG.

Anil has all containers pushed now and you can see them at https://hub.docker.com/r/ocaml/opam/
The description there contains all the info you need
We'll try and use Alpine as the 'base' as it's small.
Anil planning to write this up when he gets a chance.
These images should make it easier to run tests across many platforms etc
Still needs support for Arch Linux etc.
There are things to check but we're doing well. 150 containers now.
DanielB tried it and liked it as he used to test his things with Virtual Box. Now just has to log in with command line and test things.

Jeremy is happy and has merged a few things into Functoria. No objections from ThomasG.
This will be a 2.7 release (not a 3.0).
Functoria Blog post has a couple of TODO's — one of which was a come up with a reasonable example. There's a PR in the mirage-www repo. Mindy will consider that.

Mort will be one of the GSoC admins along with Lars. This is lightweight and is mostly cover in case he's away.
Application going in soon.
Lars also wanted to check that our projects are up to date.

Have a lot of people asking about storage.
Dave working on block backend for Irmin and will take a while to get this done. Anyone else available to work on filesystems?
Mort has a UG student working on a filesystem thing. It's working well enough that there's a performance evaluation underway.
Not written up yet but will encourage a release.
Question on the mailing list where folks are using the FAT filesystem to store things. It's a shame that Irmin doesn't work on Xen.

We had a chat with Wassim from Erriscon for netmap backend instead of Xen backend. We think this is something for xen-devel. Xen folks may have started one but not sure where things stand. Maybe Wassim should use MiniOS for now.
No-one's used netmap. Maybe Wassim et al can use it and get back to us with comments.
There are pieces in several places. Anil will reply to the email.

Quite a few people posting questions on stack overflow. The tag is mirage. DanielB saw them but was waiting for others to respond. We may want to consider a link on the mirage.io site to point people at stack overflow. That means spending more time there ourselves, though.
Late notes: Notes are still delayed — Amir has less time to write things up properly. Dave recommends declaring a 'notes amnesty'. Focus on future notes instead? Gemma offered to help. Amir will discuss with Gemma.
The next call is scheduled for 2nd March. Please add any agenda items you wish to discuss in advance and refer to the mailing list for actual details a day or so in advance.

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