[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Sept 12/2019

[Khalil, Ghada]

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Release Team Meeting - September 12 2019
stx.3.0
- Release Plan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZFR-9-riwhIwiBYBmWmi1qOVyHtgJ8Xk_FaF2jp5rY0/edit#gid=1010323020
- StoryBoard Dashboard: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/board/186
- Made good progress
- Features with missing info
        - Upversion Openstack to train - Bruce
                - Bruce: No concrete plan yet. Not comfortable with resourcing yet, especially on the test side. AR: Bruce to work on plan for next week.
        - Performance Testing Framework - Victor
                - Bruce: Some preliminary measurements were done. Want to make sure we are measuring the right things the right way. From a feature perspective, this is not tied directly to MS-3 as it doesn't affect the code base. 
                - Agreed that this doesn't hold up MS-2.
        - Flock Versioning - Saul
                - Plan updated. infrastructure for stx.3.0 
- Feature Deferrals - Need to make a proposal to the TSC and get their input/approval
        - Containerize Ceph
                - Bruce: Propose to change to prep and defer testing. Dev works will continue.
                - Agreed that given the system impact, the code will likely only be merged in master after stx.3.0 RC1 (branch creation)
        - Containerize OVS-DPDK
                - Bruce: Propose to change to prep and defer testing. Dev works will continue.
        - Containerized Openstack clients
                - Frank: Propose to defer to stx.4.0 -- Had sanity issues last time.  No direct end user impact. Requires several weeks of work.
- Partial Features - Review with TSC
        - Distributed Cloud 
                - Dariush: Propose to defer openstack support to stx.4.0. Focus in stx.3.0 is on the platform piece.
        - B&R with containers
                - Frank: Propose to defer openstack support to stx.4.0. Focus in stx.3.0 is on the platform piece.
        - Layered Build
                - Frank: Phase 1 is done, but no secure resourcing for phase 2. Propose deferring phase 2 to stx.4.0
- Unstaffed Features - Review with TSC
        - IPv6 pxeboot network
        - R2 >> R3 Upgrades
- Test Status
        - Agreed that Feature Test can be lag MS-3 by two weeks (Oct 30)
        - Regression -- Are we confident with current dates/duration? Any risks?
        - Made adjustments to schedule based on input from the test team
- Overall Release Dates
        - Proposal is to push regression by 2wks with a knock-on effect of 1wk to the overall schedule

stx.2.0 
- Release Notes
        - Location: https://docs.starlingx.io/releasenotes/r2_release.html 
        - Raw data is ready. Bill will follow Mike's instructions to contribute it to the docs repo.
        - Also agreed to add a pointer to the stx.2.0 open bugs                
- Maintenance Release 
        - Current Target: the week of Sept 30 (soft target)
        - stx.2.0 branch: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/projects:+starlingx+branch:r/stx.2.0 
        - stx.2.0 gating bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bugs?field.tag=stx.2.0 
                - Current count: 11
        - Now that master is open, Send a reminder to the mailing list for cherrypicks to r/stx.2.0 for gating issues.
        - Need to have enough code fixes to warrant a maintenance release
                - 2 security fixes are ready in master and can be cherrypicked