[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Mar 1, 2023)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
March 1, 2023
Meeting is at 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT / +1 10am CST

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Green all week
     - stx.6.0 Weekly Builds 
          - Green
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/
     - stx.7.0 Weekly Builds
          - Green
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/7.0/
     - stx.8.0 Weekly Builds
          - Scott Little is still working on setting up the weekly builds
- Sanity
     - Debian Main Branch Platform Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Feb 28: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013876.html
          - Status: Green for SX. Not run for DX due to lab availability.
     - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on Feb 28: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013874.html
          - Status: Yellow
          - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2007303 -- intermittent issue; seen in 2 consecutive sanities
- 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 18: Some activity in the review as of Jan 15
          - Feb 1: Alternative fix proposed on Jan 18; waiting for ScottK's review
          - Feb 15: ScottK is going back to this
     - 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
- Attendance/participation is still low for APAC friendly meetings. 
     - Only 5 attendees this month. 
     - No attendees from APAC.
Discuss in the next community meeting whether we need to keep this alternative timeframe
- Release Status
     - Release Planning Meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-releases 
     - stx.8.0
          - stx.8.0 release milestone declared on Feb 22. Congratulations everyone!
     - stx.9.0
          - Release Tracking Spreadsheet created: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aTjYzUkExodfayt-rjTv466jE-DP8b_YjrTHhXW6G9w/edit?usp=sharing
          - New features starting to be added
          - Call to community members/PLs to continue adding their feautre proposal
          - Would like to have the majority of features proposed by the March virtual PTG (March 28-29)

ARs from Previous Meetings
- None

Open Requests for Help
- stx.8.0 Interface Bonding issue
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-March/013877.html
     - Action: Ghada to ask Steve Webster (networking PL) to respond
- Deployment on Intel NUC w/ single interface
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013875.html
     - Action: Greg to respond
- StarlingX Support on ARM
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013819.html
     - Not currently supported on StarlingX, but should be more doable with the move to Debian and the yocto kernel
     - ARM Support would definitely require work to support, including build system support
     - A few years ago MarkA and Greg did some prototype work on orange-pie
     - MarkA responded to the thread: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-February/013841.html
     - Status: Watch List; will leave on the community list for a few more weeks
           - Mar 1: No further responses since Mark's response on Feb 14.
- 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.
     - LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2002157
     - Assigned to Thales; team has no bandwidth to look at this for the remaining of the month. Will reach out to the reporter to share this.
     - Status: Open / No updates