The StarlingX networking team had their first meeting on 8/30. Weekly meetings are scheduled for Thursday at 9am Eastern.

Meeting Details are available on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Networking

Meeting agenda/notes are captured at:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-networking

Team Meeting Agenda/Notes - Sept 20/2018

· Neutron Blueprint Status / Next Steps

• Provider Network Management -- Highest priority

§ Merge the Segment Range Management in this spec: https://review.openstack.org/579411

§ Also include the current API (w/o the Host Management piece) 

§ Rename to Provider Segment Range Configuration 

§ Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the current spec review saying we will re-work the spec based on the feedback from PTG and re-publish it. Fcst: Sept 21

§ Next Step: Ruijing<?> to re-work the spec. Time-Line: 1-2wks to have the updated spec. Fcst: Sept 28-Oct5

· Action: Forrest to confirm the resourcing for this work

• System Host Management

§ neutron community did not agree to move forward with this spec. The neutron spec will not be pursued any further.

§ Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the gerrit review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§ Plan is to move this functionality to the stx-nfv project

· Use the neutron APIs from stx-nfv. Need to prototype the use of admin_state_up / admin_state_down

o This may drive an Enhancement Request into neutron. Neutron team was open to this.

§ Next Step: Matt to write story in SB describing the requirements. 

· After consultation with the Technical Lead for stx-nfv, he advised us to defer this work for a while as the code is undergoing churn due to containerization support.

· We will revisit this again in a few weeks  - October 18 

• Rescheduling of DHCP Servers and Routers

§ neutron community did not agree to move forward with this spec. The neutron spec will not be pursued any further.

§ Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the gerrit review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§ Plan is to move this functionality to the stx-nfv project

· Implement a plugin in the stx-nfv vim to do the re-scheduling

§ Next Step: Matt to capture requirements in SB. Note: This will be included in the same story as the "System Host Management" since they are closely related

• Fault Management

§ Plan is to not pursue this spec with neutron. The corresponding gerrit review will be abandoned.

§ Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§ For now, leave the patch in stx-neutron as is. This is broader than just neutron, same hooks exist in glance/cinder/etc. Need a larger discussion/decision.

§ Put on hold for now.

• ML2 Connection Auditing and Monitoring

§ Plan is to review the current neutron logging capabilities to see if it is sufficient to diagnose issues

· Neutron team is open to receiving Enhancement Requests if needed.

§ Action: Forrest to confirm the resourcing for this work

· Other Neutron Upstreaming Patches - Bugs

• Not reviewed in the meeting

· stx.2018.10 Status

• 2 features planned and on track

• 6 bugs: 2 well understood, 2 need more info, 2 need further investigation

§ Kailun to follow up on https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1790252

· ovs-dpdk Enhancements - stx.2019.03

• Kailun working on OVS-DPDK Firewall Driver Enhancements.

§ Facing some issues <Kailun to update with details>. Steve to send output from his system.

Regards,

Ghada