[Starlingx-discuss] Notes: Weekly StarlingX non-OpenStack Distro meeting, 12/5

Wed Dec 5 14:34:36 UTC 2018

Agenda & Notes for 12/5 meeting:
    1. minor kernel version upgrade to 3.10.0.957 (Ken)
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1805759
    security concerns regarding current version, want to upgrade the kernel to 957. Want to get the upgraded kernel to master sooner. Requirement is to get to the kernel version soon in StarlingX master.
    This minor kernel version is the one in CentOS 7.1810 release: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004521
    from implemenation: kernel upgrade in higher priority and needs to be done in master. 
    Shuicheng: only rpm version available, sRPM not available yet - AR: Shuicheng to monitor the CentOS package page.
    out of tree driver Kernel drivers upgrade: not sure yet if those kernel drivers (drdb, QAT, etc) have been upgraded to 1810 yet. Can seperate this work as other workitem. 
    Victor: shouldn't we re-build with the new kernel or not? The answer is YES.

    2. CentOS 7.6 upgrade planning (Saul)
    - get a list of sRPM/RPM packages that being upgrade in CentOS7.6, size the work item (AR: Shuicheng)
    - Feature branch creation (AR to Dean, needs to get the rights from Dean to create feature branch. AR for Shuicheng to contact Dean. Rebase from master on weekly basis. )
    CentOS7.1810 was annouced on Dec 3rd. 
    storyboard created: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004522, will add tasks once sRPM identified. 

    3. non-Openstack patch refactoring status (Zhipeng)
    finished most of the tasks for init/config. Only one patch still pending for RabitMQ for final review. 
    Saul will fire more storyboards when he finds more init/config issue. 
    last week we find other related stories, 7 stories finished coding, 2 merged, 3 under review, 2 is invalid. 
    167 patch reduction in total now out of 402 patches - good job! 

    4. Qemu 3.0 upgrade status (Ghada/Jim)
    Qemu basically ready to push. 
    AR: Saul to review the patches pushed up by Jim on staging branch. Work w/ Dean to review and if it's good to go, will push. 
    pre-push validation has been done already. 

    5. Ceph upgrade status update (Vivian/Dehao)
    Story and task created @ storyboard. Detail doc created and including every patches. Break down big commits into small patches, new PR sent. 6 WR patches added to this PR. Waiting for Dean's review. 
    Scott provided some comments on Ceph upgrade in openstack Gerrit - patch updated to address the comments.
    ISO image can be built and under testing. 32 patches rebased and included in this new ISO image. 
    dedicated storage node environment setting from Dev side. If you need help, contact Ada...

    6. Opens (all)
        6.1  kernel driver upgrade testing status update (Ada/Ricardo/Shuicheng) We have successfully installed the Lewis Hill, QAT 8970 Adapter, X16,OEM,S,DUAL-CC - J39967-001, after some issues with our infrastructure, we finally started the proper installation of duplex configuration, today we expect to run some of the tests to see if some issue are seen or not. We are using the latest ISO provided by Shuicheng.

-----Original Appointment-----
From: Xie, Cindy 
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 2:27 PM
To: Xie, Cindy; Wold, Saul; 'Rowsell, Brent'; Jones, Bruce E; Troyer, Dean; 'Khalil, Ghada'; Waheed, Numan; Lin, Shuicheng; Zhu, Vivian; Shang, Dehao; Liu, ZhipengS; Hu, Yong; Sun, Austin; Somerville, Jim; starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Cc: Perez Carranza, Jose; 'Hellmann, Gil'; 'Waines, Greg'; 'Chen, Jacky'; Armstrong, Robert H; Perez Rodriguez, Humberto I; Martinez Landa, Hayde; Martinez Monroy, Elio; Hu, Wei W; 'Seiler, Glenn'; 'Eslimi, Dariush'; Gomez, Juan P; Lara, Cesar; 'Young, Ken'; Arce Moreno, Abraham; Cobbley, David A
Subject: Weekly StarlingX non-OpenStack Distro meeting
When: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 6:00 AM-7:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).
Where: https://zoom.us/j/342730236

. Cadence and time slot:
o Wednesday 9AM Winter EDT (10PM China time, US PDT Winter time 6AM)
. Call Details:
o Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/342730236
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o Meeting ID: 342 730 236
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. Meeting Agenda and Minutes:
o https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-distro-other