[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Aug 23, 2023)

Khalil, Ghada Ghada.Khalil at windriver.com
Thu Aug 24 20:58:42 UTC 2023


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

Minutes from the community call
Aug 23, 2023

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Green
          - 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
          - Failed with the same error as last week; failed due to disk space error; even though there should be enough
          - Need to investigate more. Will attempt to shift the build schedule to avoid concurrent builds to see if this resolves the issue
          - 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 22: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014451.html
          - Status: Green for SX and DX
     - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Aug 29: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014447.html
          - Status: Yellow  (issue which caused a red sanity last week was resolved)
          - Two New LPs
               - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030883
               - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030888
               - Team is currently focusing on Antelope, so it will take a while to investigate. Will also monitor if the issues are reproduced in the upcoming sanity runs.
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - ARM Spec Review
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/specs/+/890514
          - No progress in terms of review since last week. 
          - ScottL and Greg are planning to review this week. It was also suggested that MarkA and Yue Tao (OS team) to review
     - Memory Utilization Documentation
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/docs/+/890816/4/doc/source/deploy_install_guides/release/bare_metal/aio_duplex_install_kubernetes.rst#290
          - Looking for input from the community on what to recommend in terms of memory usage. 
          - ChrisF provided some input on the call; suggesting that the default values may need to be discussed instead of suggesting that each user has to change the defaults
               - The values maybe dependent on the config used (ex: deploying stx-openstack app)
     - 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
     - Discussed in the TSC portion - See: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-cores
     - Milestone-3 will not be declard today.
     - Action: Ghada to send a summary of the feature cotent to the mailing list and get feedback
          - Email sent: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014458.html  / waiting for feedback until next week
- October PTG (virtual)
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014454.html
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014448.html
     - Time slots have been proposed on the mailing list.
- Container Lights-On Activities
     - The container team has a number of lights-on activity every release - like upgrading to new version of k8s.
     - Is a spec needed for that type of work?
     - Greg suggested to have one high-level spec every stx release to summarize the planned upversioning work - including k8s, CNIs, applications, kernel, etc.
     - Agreed to have a spec starting in stx.10.0

ARs from Previous Meetings
- 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: SteveG/Jackie to raise this issue w/ the TSC on Aug 23.
          - Status: Open. Not discussed in the TSC on Aug 23 / SteveG on vacation; added to TSC agenda for Aug 30.
     - 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
          - Status: In progress. Under discussion on the mailing list
          - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014409.html
- 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
     - Status: In progress. Ildiko is talking to dockerhub people. Mike will sync up with Ildiko. Deadline for payment is Aug 24.
     - Action: Ildiko to raise the topic of looking for alternatives to dockerhub with the TSC. Ultimately, this will become a community resoucing discussion
     - Status: Open. Not discussed in the TSC on Aug 23; added to TSC agenda for Aug 30.
- 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.
     - Status: Open. Not sent yet
- Renaming App Repos to remove "armada" from the name
     - 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
     - Status: Closed. Build and Container/Apps team to work together to determine the timeline/resourcing for this item

Open Requests for Help   not discussed this week
- 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






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