Agenda and notes for 9/12 meetings: 1. AR Reviews (Cindy) - AR: Saul to define a more realistic goal for # of patch reductions (10%, 50% & 90% today) - let's discuss this during patch analysis. update from Saul: 10% by end of 2018, we may exceed that. Stretch goal 30% given we find solution for init/config. Saul: kernel patches review with WR continue but may not be the best component to do upstream. - AR: Shuicheng to scope what is the kernel drivers needs to be upgraded (push it to Mar's release) file a storyboard already, will be after 9/26 code freeze date. - AR: Elio to take the question (about test on bare-metal) to Ada and Ghada take this into test sub-project meeting for tracking. [close in this track and Ada is tracking] - AR: Elio to send out the test report to the mailing list for the ISO built last Friday. [DONE] - AR: Vivian to send your quesitons and ask help to StarlingX mailing list. [DONE] 2. non-OpenStack patch analysis status (Saul) Saul: system init & config patch analysis, Zhipeng Liu from SH team is working on this. 3. CentOS 7.5 upgrade & test status (Shuicheng, Elio, Ghada/Jason) - Shuicheng status: finished sRPM upgrade; upgraded all ~260 RPMs to latest version. 2nd test ISO to GDC for testing last Friday; build instructions given to WR.  Kernel upgraded to the version in 7.5, patch pending review. most of upgrade work is done. Focusing on internal issue reported from WR and GDC, will fix it as soon as the report defects. - GDC test report: bug 1790213 share w/ mainline; other test cases passed: 22/25 passed.  - WR: Jason has some issues on creating ISO. WR is using bare-metal for testing (not virtualize). Inconsistencies btw mirrors and what's required as part of build.  Ken will have Jason to provide more details about failures from Jason's side;  Progress on the ISO made last week: 1st controller node can be installed. 2nd controller failed, same issue as 1790213 (with last Friday's build). Correction from Numan: not able to config the 1st controller. Numan to send out the test report for this ISO build by Jason last weekend. - Tomorrow: getting Martin's results/report; Jason's build debug info. 4. Libvirt/qemu upgrade status (Ghada/Jim) Jim is back from vacation. will follow-up by email about 3 storyboards readiness before 9/26. 5. Ceph upgrade status (Vivian) Vivian is on travel and Dehao from storage team is debugging Ceph upgrade issues, still encounter Python2 dependencies.  6. Open topics (Brent, Saul, Ghada)