[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Oct 26, 2022)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
October 26, 2022

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch CentOS Builds
          - Green all week
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - 6 out of 7 were green. One failure was transient due to error accessing
     - Debian Build Acceleration Feature
          - Reviews in progress
          - This will make builds faster
     - Weekly CentOS Builds for stx.6.0 & stx.7.0
          - This will be setup shortly.
          - 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)
- Sanity
     - CentOS Main Branch Sanity w/ stx-openstack
          - Last sanity email sent on Oct 21: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013452.html
                - Status: Red
                - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1993832
                    - Introduced by recent code changes. Ghada to assign to the developer who introduced the issue.
          - stx-openstack sanity transition to Debian
                - The time-frame is nominally in the Dec time-frame
                - The feature tracking the stx-openstack migration has a Code Merge date of 12/07 based on the stx.8.0 tracking spreadsheet
                - Action: Ghada to ask Frank to share the latest in the plan to disable stx CentOS builds on the mailing list.
                - 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. 
     - Debian Main Branch Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Oct 25: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013461.html
                - Status: Green
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - None brought forward in the meeting
     - 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
     - Action: Ildiko to add Scott Kamp to the electoral as a contributor to the project.
- stx.8.0 Milestone-2 was declared on the mailing list
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013450.html

ARs from Previous Meetings
- None

Open Requests for Help
- stx aio bare metal 7.0 centos / openstack fails
     - Last Email in the thread: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013447.html
     - LP Opened and assigned to the stx-openstack team for investigation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1993593
     - Thales will follow up on status
- Rook Installation
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-October/013404.html
     - Greg forwarded the email to the storage team. But still no response. Ghada to ping Flavio again
     - Note: The original Intel team who introduced rook is no longer active in the community.
- Enabling cpu_dedicated_set
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-September/013382.html
     - Last Question posted here: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-September/013382.html
          - Is there a way I can enable application-isolation across all the worker nodes including new nodes to be added in future?
     - Ghada to ping Chris Friesen again
- Rebuilding ISOs
     - Raised by Scott Kamp
     - This will be covered in the context of upgrades support which will be managed in a subproject team.
     - Consider closed in the context of the communit call; it will be worked within the above context.