[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Jan 12/2022

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Release Team Meeting - Jan 12 2022
Happy New Year!

stx.6.0
- Release Declaration
    - Builds
          - RC builds are on demand. The last build was on 2022-01-06. 
          - http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/centos/flock/
          - Note: Further builds are blocked by CENGN issue.
    - Sanity
          - Sanity is no longer Red. yay!
                 - Issue was with the sanity test setup, not a starlingx software issue
          - Sanity with the latest 6.0 load is yellow
                 - http://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-January/012626.html
          - LP causing yellow sanity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1956229
                 - Based on community discussion, would be nice to fix for stx.6.0, but only if a fix is available early next week (Jan 16-17)
    - Branch
          - https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+branch:r/stx.6.0
          - No open reviews currently
    - Bugs
          - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bugs?field.tag=stx.6.0
          - Only the sanity bug above is outstanding for the release
    - Doc Branching
          - Agreed to create the r/stx.6.0 branch for the docs repo on Monday Jan 17.
    - Release Declaration
          - Tentative Target: Jan 21
          - Risk: CENGN Build capabilities are down after their maintenance
                 - May not be able to issue builds and move build artifacts
    - Blog Posts
          - Release Announcement
                 - Ildiko has a draft post ready for review. Will publish once we declare the release milestone
                 - Link: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-release6-blog
          - Certificate Management Improvement Blog
                 - Available on github as a PR request: https://github.com/StarlingXWeb/starlingx-website/pull/145
                 - Ghada to follow up w/ author (Sabeel Ansari) to do a final review.
          - Distributed Cloud Scalability Blog
                 - Available on github as a PR request: https://github.com/StarlingXWeb/starlingx-website/pull/148

stx.7.0
- Release/Feature Planning Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/171PJAu9SykXm9h9Ny2IsZ8YMbhvEwOzuTbISWUMQhiE/edit#gid=0
    - Greg populated the planning spreadsheet with potential features for review in the community meeting
    - Request to all Feature Primes to review and update accordingly
- Specs
    - Spec structure is setup for stx.7.0: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/specs/+/819360
    - No specs posted for stx.7.0 yet: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:starlingx%252Fspecs