[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - July 9/2020

[Khalil, Ghada]

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Release Team Meeting - Jul 9 2020
stx.4.0
- MS-3 declared on 2020-07-08
- Release Branch Creation
     - Last commit from master in the release branch is: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/739046/ 
     - Going well.  Davlet is setting up the CENGN builds. 
     - Expect to get build results today.
     - Agreed to build daily for now until the release milestone, but only run sanity when there is new content cherrypicked
     - Need to send an email asking developers to start cherry-picking for bugs w/ stx.4.0 tags after they merge into master

- stx.4.0 Open Bugs
     - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bugs?field.tag=stx.4.0&orderby=-datecreated&start=0 
     - Total: 31; all assigned except one. 

- Release Notes
     - Need to get started on this
     - Action: Bruce to talk w/ Mary to get this going.
     - The Feature status spreadsheet has links to specs & storyboards
     - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a93wt0XO0_JvajnPzQwnqFkXfdDysKVnHpbrEc17_yg/edit#gid=1107209846 

- requests from the community marketing team meeting ( https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/2019_StarlingX_Marketing_Plans )
     - Release Notes for stx.4.0 - need to include feature descriptions 
     - Blog Post for stx.4.0 - what are the major themes for the release, other highlights, volunteers to write the blog post? 
     - Agreed to start with release nodes as the input for this activity

- Feature Test Update
     - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C9n4aRQT7xMyTDCT5sfuZGNI9ermAX5BYRypzcCpQ6U/edit#gid=968103774 
     - TSN Support in Kata container - In Progress
           - Made progress on setup. 
     - Openstack Rebase to Ussuri
           - Basic testing done. Will reduce the # of TCs chosen as a lot are not directly related to the rebase.
           - The remaining test-cases will be covered as part of regression using formal CENGN builds instead of 

- Regression Test Update
     - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gA3bnLS7aY2y8dKxm4MuqpWyELq3PVJMYtiHn4IWiAk/edit#gid=1717644237 
     - Ready to resume; will move regression to the r/stx.4.0 release branch
     - Final regression will be reduced to only run sanity on the final build given the short time-frame