[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (May 17, 2023)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
May 17, 2023

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Build issues from last week (due to the removal of openstack branches) have been addressed
          - Scott is now on the openstack announce mailing list and will monitor announcements. Thales will add himself as well.
          - Had 4-5 builds pass in a row
          - Hit a network/DNS issue last night, so that build failed, but is expected to pass on a re-run
     - stx.6.0 Weekly RC Builds 
          - Failed due to the network/DNS issue
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/6.0/
     - stx.7.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Green
          - Build Output: http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/7.0/
     - stx.8.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Failed on the removal of openstack branches. Review merged to use SHA instead. Should pass next week.
          - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/rc/8.0/
     - CENGN Mirror Running Low on Space
          - Partially resolved as some stx.8.0 builds were not being cleaned up properly.
          - Still low, but not urgent
     - github Mirroring Issue
          - Email: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-April/014000.html
          - The majority of the mirroring is working now after manually updating the key.
          - The correct / longer term solution is to setup our own zuul configuration project for StarlingX and not piggy-back on openstack
              - Estimate is about 2wks of work
              - Raised in the build project team to determine if there are resources to do this work
              - Story Board Created: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2010754
          - Action: Greg to review the requirements for github mirroring to confirm if it's required for all repos or just a subset to meet k8s conformance requirements.
     - Transition from CENGN
          - As discussed in the PTG, CENGN will no longer be able to host the StarlingX builds.
          - Build team is working on transitioning the builds to WR infrastructure.
          - Timing: TBD
          - Status: Progressing. Able to build the main branch builds (iso+container) on a parallel env. Will work on stx.8.0 RC builds next.
- Sanity
     - Debian Main Branch Platform Sanity
          - Last sanity email sent on May 16: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-May/014097.html
          - Status: Green for SX. Not run for DX due to lab issues
     - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity
          - Last week's build issues have been addressed. LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2019015
          - Hit some lab issues and were not able to run sanity this week
          - Last sanity email sent on Apr 11: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-April/013968.html
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - tools repo reviews - Virtual Env Setup
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/880870         
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/882728         
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/881832         
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/tools/+/882174
          - Still waiting for core reviewers to have a look; it's unclear who is familiar with this area and would make the best candidates to review.
     - 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
          - Mar 22: Next action is w/ ScottK; As per today's meeting, he'll be looking at the comments
          - Apr 11: Review is still open. Next action is w/ ScottK (the author)
          - May 4: ScottK lost his setup, so needs to recover the review
     - 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
- No new topics raised
- Election and PTG/Summit topics were already covered in the TSC portion of the meeting

ARs from Previous Meetings
- None

Open Requests for Help
- Issue w/ pxebooting a second node on StarlingX
     - Question raised on the community call (Apr 26) by Kevin
     - The initial node installs/boots correctly, but but an identical second node doesn't. This setup is using vmare to run StarlingX in VMs.
     - Status: Open / Greg has some information to share, but isn't sure how to get in touch w/ Kevin
- Build System Setup
     - Question was posted on IRC by Kevin
     - StarlingX documentation has a lot of outdated information. It took a lot of digging to find the right documentation for setting up a build env with minikube.
     - Requested that Kevin open an LP to the doc team and/or send an email to the mailing list w/ more details to the mailing list
     - Status: Open / No email sent to the mailing list yet. Unsure if LP was opened.
- Support for StarlingX 8 setup bring up
     - Reported by Prashanthi
     - Email thread: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-April/014026.html
     - Status: Open / Discussion is active on the mailing list. Greg providing assitance. The issues are related to date/time issues on servers being setup as well as firewall issues