[Starlingx-discuss] Community Meeting Notes - Feb 20, 2019

[Zvonar, Bill]

Notes from Feb 20th call below, and at [0].

Bill... 

[0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-status

Open Infrastructure Summit sessions speakers needed (ildikov)
   - Project Update 20min (Can request a 40min slot)
   - Project Onboarding 40min
   - schedule will go live today
   - still need volunteers for the Onboarding session - reach out to Ildiko if you're interested 

VirtualBox install instructions (Numan)
   - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/StarlingX_VirtualBox_Configuration_Guide
   - working on an automated one-click install https://review.openstack.org/#/c/637958/ - very close to being ready for everyone to use 
   - please try it out & let Numan know via the community mailing list if you run into any issues 

Sub-project updates
- Release (Ghada) 
          - line by line through the Release Plan, for everything that's not complete 
- Build: Build System Support for multi-OS Prep
          - Victor: changing to focus on Ubuntu, but won't touch the existing build system
          - nothing's going into Master, so we agreed to remove it from the current release plan
- Lights On: CVE Upgrades
          - Ken: working to select preliminary tools, close by March 1; have first report by April 5
- Lights On: User Documentation 
          - Abraham: working to split this & update docs.starlingx.io, next week 
- Lights On: CentOS 7.6
          - Cindy: test (Numan) stuck currently due to build issue; still planning to do the cutover after the cutover to Stein
          - ~week of March 4 to week of March 11
- Lights On: OVS/Mellanox
          - Ghada: will need to re-plan
- Lights On: Ceph Upgrade
          - Cindy/Frank: working through training/planning 
          - will propose a new plan by next week's meeting (won't make 2/28)
- Lights On: Python 3 Readiness (Prep)
          - Cindy/Victor: one minor-ish story to complete
- Lights On: C/C++ w/ Defenses Enabled
          - Victor: this is currently on hold while performance measurement framework is being sorted out 
- New: Containerized OpenStack
          - Frank: day by day right now, working through cutover-gating items & getting sanity clean across all configs
          - best case next Monday (Feb 25)
- New: Distributed Cloud UI / Distributed Keystone / Distributed Glance 
          - no update this week 
- Other: Integrate Containerized OVS
          - Ghada: working with Forrest on this, will have provide update after next networking meeting
- Other: Ansible Bootstrap Deployment
          - Dariush: code should be out for review in the first week of March
          - Saul requested a work in progress code review as soon as possible (W-1)
- Technical Debt: Distro OpenStack Patch Elimination
          - Bill: getting redder as we get closer to Stein cut-off - Bill to send minutes from yesterday's DOS meeting
- Technical Debt: Distro Non-OpenStack Patch Backlog
          - Cindy: not much progress recently 
          - still believe they can finish the ~20 patches after finishing up CentOS upgrade 
- Technical: OpenStack Rebase 
          - Ghada: we are on Stein, cutting over soon 
- Test: DevStack Enablement
          - Cindy: may be bigger than thought initially, due to Stein 
          - some Pike stuff won't work on Stein out of the box
          - working the plan to get through this, will provide an update next week 
- sub-projects were covered as we went through the release plan items, except where noted... 
          - Containers (Frank)
          - Security (Ken)
          - Ceph Upgrade (Vivian)
          - CentOS Upgrade (Cindy)
          - Networking (Ghada)
          - Docs (Michael / Bruce)
                 - no update - will ask about it offline 
          - Build (Caesar)
          - Test (Ada/Numan)
                - mostly working on manual regression testcases 
                - plan is to have in repo by end of next week 
                - other focus areas are Containers & OVS-DPDK
                - next up is the feature testcases into the repo 
          - Multi-OS (Cesar)
          - OpenStack (Bill)
                - flat trend upstream continues, particularly in Nova 
                - need to take new action in order to get stuff in for this release, will send details in distro meeting notes 
          - Defect Trend (Bill)
                - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DZZgqrCIL6wxv51_yFBk6Lfmtf1AqPD6z7e5hEs3prU/edit?usp=sharing
                - similar trend continuing, Bill still has the action about the "help wanted" tags 
          - Open ARs
                - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F-JKh8_gLlUzbrUJRbsf4u65yBGVBl8HGe-RnUQoyc4/edit?usp=sharing
                - AR owners are asked to update their ARs on this sheet