[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Nov 2, 2022)

Khalil, Ghada Ghada.Khalil at windriver.com
Thu Nov 3 18:19:10 UTC 2022


Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-status

Minutes from the community call
November 2, 2022
Meeting is at 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT / +1 10am CST

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch CentOS Builds
          - Several build failures this week. Issues are addressed.
          - Summary sent by ScottL: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013516.html
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Several build failures this week. Majority of issues are addressed to re-enabled the builds. May need to re-work some of the short terms fixes.
          - Summary sent by ScottL: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013516.html
     - Debian Build Acceleration Feature
          - Code caused the Debian build issues. Fixes were merged.
          - The Acceleration feature is now functional for the ISO build, but not yet for container builds.
     - Weekly CentOS Builds for stx.6.0 & stx.7.0
          - stx.6.0 - plan to build ISO only and no containers
          - stx.7.0 - plan to build both ISO and containers (since stx.8.0 is several months from being released)
          - Working through build issues. 
                    - stx.6.0 issue has been addressed. 
                    - stx.7.0 issue is still under investigation.
- Sanity
     - CentOS Main Branch Sanity w/ stx-openstack
          - LP causing the last red sanity has been resolved as of Oct 27
                    - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1993832
          - No new sanity email sent since then
                    - Rob will follow up to ensure the stx-openstack sanity is restarted.
          - stx-openstack sanity transition to Debian
                    - Planned for the Dec time-frame
                    - Email to the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013487.html
     - Debian Main Branch Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Nov 1: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013506.html
          - Status: Green
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - Doc review from Ildiko: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/843349
          - Request for Juanita to merge.
     - Reference Links:
          - Active Branch (open): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:open+branch:+master
          - Active Branch (merged): https://review.opendev.org/q/projects:starlingx+is:merged+branch:master

Topics for this week
- Upcoming Elections
     - Nomination period starts next week on Nov 1 for both TSC & PL/TL positions.
     - Nomination period ends on Nov 8

ARs from Previous Meetings
- Action: Ghada to ask Frank about the latest in the plan to disable stx CentOS builds. This needs community communication via the mailing list.
     - Closed. Time-frame is Dec. Email to the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013487.html
- Action: Rob/Thales to discuss if stx-openstack CentOS can be stopped for the next 4-6wks if the builds are stopping. To make this decision, a community poll via the mailing list is needed. 
     - Closed. stx-openstack sanity will continue on CentOS until it's ready to migrate to Debian in Dec.
- Action: Ildiko to add Scott Kamp to the electoral as a contributor to the project.
     - Closed. ScottK has been added.

Open Requests for Help
- Virtio-forwarder with StarlingX - NEW
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013505.html
     - Action: ScottK to respond
- stx aio bare metal 7.0 centos / openstack fails
     - Response sent to mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013507.html
          - Reported issue is not reproduced.
     - LP Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1993593
     - The reporter (ScottK) is in the process of rebuilding the server and retesting the stx-openstack install.
     - Consider this closed for now.
- Rook Installation
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013404.html
     - Response sent to the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013488.html
     - Summary: rook was not transitioned to FluxCD in stx.7.0. To use the armada version, need to configure the system w/ k8s 1.18
     - Consider this closed
- Enabling cpu_dedicated_set
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-September/013382.html
     - Last Question posted in the thread: Is there a way I can enable application-isolation across all the worker nodes including new nodes to be added in future?
     - Pinged Chris Friesen, but no response





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