[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Release Meeting - Jun 29/2022

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Sanity
- Last Update: The current plan to restart work on enabling sanity in 2wks by June 29. Then can start building a plan at that time.
- Starting on WR sanity setup today: June 29. 
- Action: Rob to provide further details on the plan/status in the next community call: July 6
- Sanity Recommendations
      - Run sanity w/o openstack to start. See note below about openstack not workng w/ k8s 1.23 / FluxCD
      - Backup plan: Run sanity w/ openstack & k8s 1.21

stx.7.0
- Release/Feature Planning: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/171PJAu9SykXm9h9Ny2IsZ8YMbhvEwOzuTbISWUMQhiE/edit#gid=1107209846
- Release Verification:
      - Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1szAP-xVZq7ebSyGJ-EHTVebMmsupSY7w
      - Feature Testing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hXJJ4LvxhWwLIF_PHpCyxlGpfKdXtcPjlyclfKFVxKo/edit#gid=968103774
      - Regression Testing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19OQmmo5OfD1eHS8rp5uBgnVaS7i8J-NhQuiKVqcyZ0Y/edit#gid=1717644237
- Release Updates
      - Feature Code & Test Update
           - Feature status updated in the planning spreadsheet.
           - 37 features are complete.
           - 1 feature deferred to stx.8.0 -- FEC Device Configurability (fec-operator Integration)
                - Team was still having build issues, so will not hold up stx.7.0 and will continue this in stx.8.0
      - Bug status
           - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bugs?field.tag=stx.7.0
           - In good shape.
           - 3 LPs open: 1 related to the last sanity done by Intel. 1 related to docs. 1 looks to be fixed and needs updating.
      - Key Note: stx-openstack does not apply/work on k8s 1.23 which is the default k8s version in stx.7.0
           - The dependency may also be related to the Armada deprecation. openstack was not moved to FluxCD.
           - From Greg: this is on the openstack team's radar for stx.8.0.  Action: Greg to follow up on storyboards for stx.8.0 tracking
           - Will likely need to release stx.7.0 without openstack support. Decision pending sanity results.
      - Branch Creation
           - Pending sanity - earliest would be the week of July 11
      - Milestone Re-forecast
           - Can still make the current dates (or close to them) if we have sanity running by July 8
           - RC1 (Branch Creation): week of July 4 >> week of July 11
           - Final Regression: week of July 18
           - Release: week of July 25
      - Docs
           - Most doc updates are done. A few reviews still left to merge; trying to close these today: June 29.
           - Plan to start working on the release notes next week.

stx.8.0
- Need to start planning
- Action: Ghada to create a Release/Feature Planning spreadsheet for the next release meeting: July 13
- spec structure is already created.