Agenda and Notes - Nov 21st Call * Happy Thanksgiving! The US based folks will be out Thursday - Friday this week. * Berlin Summit Summary - Bruce, etc... o Really good summit for StarlingX. Good showcase for the project, and great progress since May where we started with seed code. Big accomplishment by the team! o Brent presented to the BoD, Ian and Dean keynoted, there were numerous StarlingX sessions and we had good participation across the overall Open Infrastructure community. o Conference sessions were recorded and are in the process of being posted o The next Summit / PTG will be in Denver. The one after that will be in China! o The next OpenStack release will be called Train. * Patch resolution strategy change - Brent o Reduction of OpenStack technical debt has not been going as fast as we would like, which means maintaining the forks for longer and impacting rebasing. o The TSC discussed a new approach. Rather than work through patch by patch, the TSC proposes to turn the problem on its head and move to OpenStack master o As soon as possible. o We would then look to address gaps through upstream submissions/specs, refactoring of STX or (worst case) carrying a small number of patches in packaging RPMs. o Brent to post the chart deck describing the changes to keep onto the wiki. o List has been shared with the STX Neutron team and the Nova PTL. o Will likely change the release cadence to accommodate this change - Stein releases in April making it hard to support in an STX release in March. * We are looking into holding an in person community meeting in January to discuss planning for these changes. Hosted by Intel in Phoenix (Chandler). Target date is January 15-16