[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Aug 16, 2023)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
Aug 16, 2023

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Green. Issue with publishing images to dockerhub has been addressed.
          - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/
     - Antelope Feature Branch Debian Builds
          - Green
     - stx.6.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Green
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/
          - Note: No container image builds are done for stx.6.0
     - stx.7.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Red. Build failed due to disk space error; even though there should be enough
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/7.0/
          - Note: No container image builds are done for stx.7.0
     - stx.8.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Green
          - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/8.0/
          - Note: The same issue of not publishing images (as in the main branch) exists for stx.8.0 and will be resolved in the next build.
- Sanity
     - Debian Main Branch Platform Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Aug 13: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014404.html
          - Status: Green for SX and DX
     - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Aug 13: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014403.html
          - Status: Red / Blocked
          - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2031401
               - Introduced by a recent code change which was reverted. Should not impact the next sanity
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - ARM Spec Review
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/specs/+/890514
          - Has +1 from Chris. ScottL will review today. Greg is only available next week.
     - 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
- stx.9.0 Release Status - Ghada Khalil
     - Milestone-3 is planned for next week
     - Not enough information is available from the feature primes to make the decision on the milestone and follow-up release plans
     - Risk was also raised for release verification due to resourcing constraints
- ARM Enablement - Jackie Huang
     - The ARM team is providing 6 servers to the StarlingX community, but there is no place to host them.
          - The ARM team is not able to host them directly for public community access
          - Steve Geary has been trying to find space to host these machines, but not much traction to date over many weeks
          - Need a forum to escalate this issue. Agreed to start with the TSC and go from there
          - Action: Steve/Jackie to raise this issue w/ the TSC on Aug 23.
     - The ARM team also have questions about how to setup a CI/CD on those machines
          - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014396.html
          - Action: Davlet to reply to the email with some initial responses
- dockerhub changed StarlingX from free-team to team - Scott Little
     - This was done automatically by dockerhub. Not clear what the reason is.
     - The cost is $300/year. Mike Matteson was following up
     - Action: Scott to connect Ildiko with Mike
     - Action: Ildiko to raise the topic of looking for alternatives to dockerhub with the TSC
     - Ultimately, this will become a community resoucing discussion
- Looking for community members to participate in US gov security initiative - Manju Rupani
     - Suggested to introduce the topic on the mailing list and see if there is any interest
     - Action: Manju to send to the mailing list.

ARs from Previous Meetings
- Request from Juanita that engineers making contributions to the StarlingX docs copy the doc leads
     - Action: Juanita to send an email to the stx-discuss mailing list
     - Status: Closed. Email sent to mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014407.html
- Renaming App Repos to remove the "armada"
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-June/014215.html
     - Minor / cosmetic change. Lower priority, but would be nice to do. Should have no impact on runtime.
     - Work required by Build team and Container/Apps team.
     - Action: Joshua Reed to create a story board to track this work.
     - Update: 8/16/23 - Storyboard link: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2010560

Open Requests for Help
- User Questions - sent by Ildiko
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014391.html
     - Responses are coming in on the mailing list
     - Issues raised are related to networking setup. 
          - Bruno/team provided an automated script for virtual installation (vbox) which should handle the networking setup.
          - As per Bruno, there are some vbox bugs which could be impacting users. Bruno will sent info on these unresolved issues.
     - Status: Open
          - Bruno responded with suggestions to the mailing list, but haven't received further feedback
- Not able to use NVIDIA drivers with StarlingX vbox installation - raised in the meeting by Manju Rupani
     - NVIDIA drivers should not be required to successfully setup StarlingX vbox installation, so the suggestion is to try w/o them first.
     - Status: Open
          - Still no success; looking for an alternative machine to setup the vbox installation
- Help w/ Install
     - Two people asking for help with installation on IRC
     - Bruno is trying to help them, but it appears that they are in a different timezone. If others can participate, it would be great.
     - Status: Open
          - Discussion is continuing between Bruno and others on IRC. This is related to the "User Questions" topic above.
          - The questions are a mix of how to setup a virtual env as well the installation itself
          - For virtual env, there are two options currently: vbox & libvirt/kvm
          - Note: There is recent effort to get libvirt/kvm working. Email reference: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-July/014267.html