[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Jan 4, 2023)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
January 4, 2023

Meeting is at 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT / +1 10am CST
Happy New Year!

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Build successful as of Jan 4
     - Main Branch CentOS Builds
          - Build successful as of Jan 4
     - CentOS Builds are planned to be stopped in Dec 2022 after 2 successful Debian-based stx-openstack sanities
          - Forecast: Dec 14  >> TBD
          - Scott (Dec 14): Should continue to run the CentOS builds for the container build portion as Debian builds don't build all the containers yet
     - stx.6.0 Weekly Build
          - Unsure of the status.
- Sanity
     - Debian Main Branch Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Jan 3: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013717.html
          - Status: Green
     - stx-openstack Debian Main Branch Sanity
          - Last sanity email on Dec 30: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2022-December/013715.html
          - Status: Red
          - LPs:
              - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1999445 >> fix is in test.
              - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2000168  >> lower priority. no negative functional impact
              - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2000483
          - Should be able to make some progress now that developers/core reviewers are back from the holidays.
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - From previous meetings: Fixes to libvirt env: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/863735
          - Review comments provided in Nov; still waiting for author (Scott Kamp) to respond/address review comments
          - Jan 4: Scott will update by EOW
     - 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
- Virtual PTG planned for March / In-Person Summit/PTG planned for June
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013718.html
- In-person PTG co-located with the OpenInfra Summit, June 13-15 in Vancouver Canada
     - https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023
- Call For Papers for the June Summit
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013719.html
     - Deadline is Jan 10

ARs from Previous Meetings
- None

Open Requests for Help
- stx-openstack apply failed after enabling cpu_dedicated_setInbox
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013720.html
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-January/013724.html
     - Seen w/ stx.7.0. Issue only happens when setting cpu dedicated CPUs on a running system. During the unlock, the openstack fails to re-apply.
     - Action: Scott Kamp will have his team look at this issue
- Documenting Tested Hardware by the community
     - Action: Scott Kamp will discuss with the TSC how to best capture this
- 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.
     - Nov 30: No Update
     - Dec 7: Team is trying a deployment this week. Will have an update for next week (Dec 14)
     - Dec 14, 21: No Update as ScottK did not attend.
     - Jan 4: Confirmed that the issue was related to a bad memory chip. Was successful in deploying on other functional hardware.
     - Consider Closed.