[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Oct 15/2020

[Khalil, Ghada]

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Release Team Meeting - Oct 15 2020

stx.3.0.1
- Update on https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1897896 
       - Error seems to be related to ceph storage
       - stx.3.0 original ISO works w/o issues on the same setup
       - master loads also work w/o issues on the same setup  >> so not a setup issue
       - Need Frank to re-assign to his team

Next Release
- The next release will be smaller than originally expected
       - Do we call it 4.1 or 5.0?
       - There is really no difference from the software perspective itself. The only version information in the software is the yy.mm SW_VERSION
       - Given the ceph rook change is large enough, recommend to call the release stx.5.0
       - This will limit confusion with 4.0.x maintenance releases which may come in the future
       - Also less work is terms of LP and storyboard labelling 
            - Currently, there are already 83 open LPs and 119 closed LPs tagged for stx.5.0 
- Recommend to base on the content on the current list of resourced features.
       - See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JbOQELqXG_GDoP1jo6YoRDytpTkJEs89TVimzvrqc_A/edit#gid=1107209846 
- Expected Exclusions
       - CentOS 8 Rebase
       - Python3 Migration
       - OpenStack Upversion to Victoria
- Proposed Time-Line
       - Recommend to declare MS-1 the week after the PTG (currently scheduled for Oct 27-29)
       - Use durations similar to openstack releases between MS-1 to MS-3 - 6wks between milestones
       - Proposed Dates:
            - Milestone-1                                                       11/6/2020
            - Milestone-2 - 6wks after MS1                        12/18/2020
            - Milestone-3 - 6wks after MS2                          1/29/2021
            - Feature Test - 2wks after MS-3                        2/12/2021
            - Regression Test - 4wks after Feature Test     3/12/2021
            - RC1 - 1wk after Regression Test                      3/19/2021
            - Final Regression - 2wks after RC1                   4/2/2021
            - Release - 1wk after Final Regression              4/9/2021