[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Nov 23, 2022)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
November 23, 2022

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch CentOS Builds
          - All green this week
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - 6 out of 8 are green.
          - Had 2 failures related to download / connectivity issues. Re-attempt passed.
          - May look at adding retries to the build for these errors as an enhancement
                 - Tracked by:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1997568
     - Debian Build Acceleration/Reuse Feature
          - The Acceleration feature is now functional for the ISO build, but not yet for container builds.
          - Work on container build re-use has not started yet.
- Sanity
     - CentOS Main Branch Sanity w/ stx-openstack
          - Paused as of Nov 17 due to CentOS build issues
                 - Email: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013582.html
          - stx-openstack sanity transition to Debian
                 - Planned for the Dec time-frame. On track.
                 - Team is focused on trying to get a Debian-based sanity; could be as early as next week
                 - 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 22: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013590.html
                 - Status: Green
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - From last meeting: Fixes to libvirt env: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/863735
          - Review comments provided; waiting for new patchset from author
     - Doc review for k8s: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/862596
          - First action is for the author to address the unresolved comments
     - 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
- TSC Elections are Complete
     - Congratulations to Greg, RamS & ScottK!
     - Email: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013591.html

ARs from Previous Meetings
- None

Open Requests for Help
- StarlingX 7.0 & 8.0 deployment failures
     - Reported by ScottK in the Nov 16 meeting
     - Working through installation issues on various hardware. Will share more info w/ the mailing list once issues are more isolated.
     - Nov 23: Team working thru setting up new hardware to re-test the deployments.
- Virtio-forwarder with StarlingX
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013505.html
     - ScottK responded with additional questions: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-November/013532.html
     - Waiting for response / no response as of Nov 23