Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-status Minutes from the community call Aug 30, 2023 Standing topics - Build - Main Branch Debian Builds - Green. Two failures earlier in the week, but they were resolved. - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/ - Antelope Feature Branch Debian Builds - Green - stx.6.0 Weekly RC Builds - Failed due to download errors - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/ - Note: No container image builds are done for stx.6.0 - stx.7.0 Weekly RC Builds - Failed due to download errors; got past the previous errors related to disk space error. - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/7.0/ - Note: No container image builds are done for stx.7.0 - stx.8.0 Weekly RC Builds - Green - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/8.0/ - Note: The same issue of not publishing images (as in the main branch) exists for stx.8.0 and will be resolved in the next build. - Sanity - Debian Main Branch Platform Sanity - Last sanity email sent on Aug 29: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014467.ht... - Status: Green for SX and DX - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity (Ussuri) - Last sanity email sent on Aug 29: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014472.ht... - Status: Yellow - Same LPs which were reported from last week - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030883 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030888 - Confirmed that the issues are reproducible based on two sanity runs on Ussuri. Team will attempt to reproduce on Antelope and investigate further. No plan to investigate on Ussuri currently, - Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention - ARM Spec Review - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/specs/+/890514 - Still waiting for Greg, Scott, MarkA/Yue Tao to review. - Memory Utilization Documentation - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/890816 - Feedback provided by Chris and Greg - Local registry guide for developers to speed up installation - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/884643 - Got +2 and several +1. Juanita did the final merge during the meeting. - Reference Links: - Active Branch (open): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:open+branch:+master - Active Branch (merged): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:merged+branch:master Topics for this week - stx.9.0 Release Status - Discussion is continuing in the TSC portion of the meeting - See: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-cores - Milestone-3 still needs to be re-forecasted - Emails are sent to the mailing list on the various risks and still waiting for feedback - Team is leaning towards delaying the release vs releasing as a tech preview. Final descision is still TBD. - Any interest in a guide for packaging a FluxCD app? - Douglas Pereira - There is some material already in the stx wiki - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Containers/HowToAddNewFluxCDAppInS... - This is on the To-Do list for the container-infra as well and they are open to collaborate with Douglas and team - Reminder: Next week the community call is in the APAC friendly timezone ARs from Previous Meetings - ARM Enablement - Jackie Huang - The ARM team is providing 6 servers to the StarlingX community and would like WR to host them. - Discussed in the TSC portion of the meeting - See: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-cores - This requires additional resources to manage the servers within WR; no current bandwidth to take this on. - Action: SteveG following up on funding. - Status: Open - The ARM team also have questions about how to setup a CI/CD on those machines - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014396.ht... - Action: Davlet to reply to the email with some initial responses - Status: Closed - The ARM team received the info and are working to setup the CI/CI internally. - Agreed to close this action - dockerhub changed StarlingX from free-team to team - Scott Little - Discussed in the TSC portion of the meeting - See: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-cores - Action: Ildiko/Mike working to address this with docker. - Status: In progress. - (Ildiko) StarlingX is still listed as OSS Program-supported organization as of August 30, 2023 - Ildiko submitted the application to extend the project's participation in Docker's OSS Program - Action: Ildiko to raise the topic of looking for alternatives to dockerhub with the TSC. Ultimately, this will become a community resoucing discussion - Status: Deferred. Ildiko shared the alternatives on the mailing list. This should still be considered for the future as dockerhub policies are not consistent - Looking for community members to participate in US gov security initiative - Manju Rupani - Suggested to introduce the topic on the mailing list and see if there is any interest - Action: Manju to send to the mailing list. - Status: In progress. - Discussion started on the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014481.ht... Open Requests for Help not discussed this week - User Questions - sent by Ildiko - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014391.ht... - Responses are coming in on the mailing list - Issues raised are related to networking setup. - Bruno/team provided an automated script for virtual installation (vbox) which should handle the networking setup. - As per Bruno, there are some vbox bugs which could be impacting users. Bruno will sent info on these unresolved issues. - Status: Open - Bruno responded with suggestions to the mailing list, but haven't received further feedback - Not able to use NVIDIA drivers with StarlingX vbox installation - raised in the meeting by Manju Rupani - NVIDIA drivers should not be required to successfully setup StarlingX vbox installation, so the suggestion is to try w/o them first. - Status: Open - Still no success; looking for an alternative machine to setup the vbox installation - Help w/ Install - Two people asking for help with installation on IRC - Bruno is trying to help them, but it appears that they are in a different timezone. If others can participate, it would be great. - Status: Open - Discussion is continuing between Bruno and others on IRC. This is related to the "User Questions" topic above. - The questions are a mix of how to setup a virtual env as well the installation itself - For virtual env, there are two options currently: vbox & libvirt/kvm - Note: There is recent effort to get libvirt/kvm working. Email reference: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-July/014267.html