[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Nov 3/2021

Khalil, Ghada Ghada.Khalil at windriver.com
Thu Nov 4 19:29:48 UTC 2021


Agenda/Minutes are posted at:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-releases

Release Team Meeting - Oct 6 2021
stx.6.0
- Release/Feature Planning Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13p0BMlBgJXUVForOFsblAJq9jA1-FMBlmhV5TIc70IE/edit#gid=1107209846
- Test Tracking Spreadsheets: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lfm073XaFGxHZSAf0RPS1DGK6QCReO9u
- Review Milestone-3 Criteria
    - Reference: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Release_Plan#Release_Milestones
          - Feature freeze: All feature code merged and feature testing completing within an acceptable timeframe
              - 3 Outstanding Features:
                   - Kernel Upversion to 5.10 - Nov 5
                   - Ceph Upversion - Nov 9
                   - Container Component Upversion - Nov 12
          - No blocking issues from Automated Sanity and Regression
              - Container build issues:
                   - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1949518
                   - Appears related to the ceph feature.
              - Sanity issues:
                   - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1949360
                         -  Appears related to the ceph feature
                   - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1949564
                         -  Root-cause unknown; needs further investigation
          - No critical issues severely impacting system stability or release test activities
              - See sanity issues above
          - Release regression testing starting
              - Regression scope (test-cases) identified
              - WR team started execution. Expect to be on track on Nov 15.
              - Rob confirming from the Intel team on their regression plans
          - Documentation plan defined; including a prioritized list of the various documentation items
              - Doc plan is in place; doc updates are in progress
          - NEW: Blog Post planning starting
              - Feature PLs to make a recommendation whether their feature warrants a blog post and provide the material by RC1
              - Column added to the feature planning spreadsheet
              - Greg ... Suggesting to move this earlier in the release cycle in stx.7.0: Suggest blogs by MS-1 and complete the blog post by MS-3
                   - Agreed to update the milestone criteria for stx.7.0
              - Process / Links:
                   - https://github.com/StarlingXWeb/starlingx-website/
                   - https://github.com/StarlingXWeb/starlingx-website/tree/master/src/pages/blog
                   - https://www.starlingx.io/blog/
                   - Action: Ildiko to document the process in the contributor guide
                   - Ildiko is volunteering to help with posting the blog posts.
              - Agreed to have 2 blogs for stx.6.0
                   - Certificate Management Improvement Blog
                         -  includes platform certificates migration to cert-mgr, orchestration of k8s rootCA updates, alarms for expired/expiring certs
                         -  Prime: Ghada
                   - Distributed Cloud Scalability Blog
                         -  includes Subcloud Rehoming & DC Scaling
                         -  Prime: Ram S
    - Milestone-3 Decision
          - Criteria not met due to build and sanity issues.
          - Re-forecasted from Oct 28 to Nov 12
          - To be re-reviewed in the next release meeting: Nov 17




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