[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Feb 27/2020

[Khalil, Ghada]

Agenda/Minutes are posted at:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-releases 

Test Team Update
- Team in Europe is ramping up
          - First task is to convert the robot sanity test into the pyTest
          - 30 TCs converted so far
          - Still working on re-factoring code
          - Yang can help answer questions about pytest
- Nick's team is also visiting Ada's team for training and ramp up activities
- Waiting for hardware
          - Currently testing on two virtual environments
          - No ETA for when this hardware will arrive. Expect to have an ETA for some of the equipment by EOW.
          - Bruce expects another 4-6 weeks until there is a fully equipped hardware lab
                      - This would put this to the middle of April
                      - Current start for Release Regression is end of April, so this is a bit tight. 
                      - This also pauses a risk for Feature Testing (done by the test team).
          - Expect to be able to use Ada's team hardware for another 3 weeks
- Weekly test meetings are due to start the week of March 9.


stx.4.0
- Unassigned Documentation Tasks - per Kristal's update on Feb 19 Community Call 
          - Kris: unassigned documentation tasks for r4 features - AR: Bill will add these to the agenda for the release team meeting... 
          - Starlingx/integ
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006711  >> Teresa Ho
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006740  >> Vinay V
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005496  >> this is no longer part of stx.4.0. Left unasigned.
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006588  >> should be: Tao Liu  / Dariush to confirm
          - Starlingx/config
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006781  >> should be: Angie Wang / Dariush to confirm
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006770  >> Frank to assign
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006145  >> Shuicheng Lin
                      - https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2006746  >> Yong to assign

- Unit Tests & Functional (API) Tests
          - Story Board: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2007082 
          - A number of reviews are still open:
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/702597/ 
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/702372/ 
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/703031/ 
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/703010/ 
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/702823/ 
                      - https://review.opendev.org/#/c/703020/ 
                      - Bruce talked to Yong to make progress on these, but his resourcing is limited at this time. Commitments for CentOS8, Ceph, ..etc are higher priority.
          - There are also a large number of tasks still to do. How do we keep the momentum going?

- Feature Planning
          - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a93wt0XO0_JvajnPzQwnqFkXfdDysKVnHpbrEc17_yg/edit#gid=0 
          - Most plans are still not updated. Ghada to send a reminder to the PLs / Feature Prime

          - Kata Containers
                      - Main functionality merged.
                      - Remaining items:
                                 - switch armada to run with containerd
                                 - Document for config and usage (needs to be done in stx4.0)
                                 - IPv6  >> this went into Kata master, but isn't in the release that StarlingX is using
                      - Current proposal is to delay the ream until stx.5.0 as Shuicheng is focused on CentOS8 now.
                      - No feature testing done -- only testing by the developer
                      - Open Bugs
                                 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1864383 
                                 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1864382 
                                 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1864372 
                      - Action: Bruce to follow up with Yong on the plan to complete the kata work

          - Layered Build
                      - Sanity is reporting issues in some labs; still unclear what the root-cause is. Scott is trying to reproduce.
                                 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1864221 
                      - If the issue cannot be reproduced in WR, we need to dig into what is different about the Intel env.