[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: Community Call (Sep 13, 2023)

[Khalil, Ghada]

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

Minutes from the community call
Sept 13, 2023

Standing topics
- Build
     - Main Branch Debian Builds
          - Update on build issues from last week: 
               - One issue with connectivity between the build server and the mirror  >> Resolved
               - The second issue is a deficiency with the git repo >> Still open
          - Also hit other issues related to container builds which were resolved.
          - Current build status is unknown. Cannot check the status as the build server is offline due to a power outage at WR Ottawa
          - Build Output: https://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/
     - Antelope Feature Branch Debian Builds
          - Unknown - server down due to power outage
          - Two previous build issues were addressed; waiting for a rebuild to confirm
               - bug/2035346: stx-horizion image build failed
               - bug/2035347: stx-ceph-manager image build failed
     - stx.6.0 Weekly RC Builds
          - Unknown - server down due to power outage
          - 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
          - Unknown - server down due to power outage
          - 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
          - Unknown - server down due to power outage
          - 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 Sept 12: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-September/014506.html
          - Status: Green for SX and Red for DX
          - New LP opened: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2035277
               - Issue related to "kubeadm join". Investigating in progress by the container team, but hampered by power outage at WR Ottawa
               - Suspect a recent code change from Sept 8: https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/stx-puppet/+/893091
     - Debian Main Branch stx-openstack Sanity (Ussuri)
          - No sanity this week also due to scheduling/lab issues: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-September/014505.html
          - Last sanity email sent on Aug 29: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014472.html
          - Status: Yellow
          - Same LPs which were reported from last week
               - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030883
               - https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2030888
               - Confirmed that the issues are reproducible based on two sanity runs on Ussuri. Team will attempt to reproduce on Antelope and investigate further. No plan to investigate on Ussuri currently,
- Gerrit Reviews in Need of Attention
     - ARM Spec Review
          - https://review.opendev.org/c/starlingx/specs/+/890514
          - No progress since Sept 6. 
          - Last update:  Got +1 from Scott (build team). Still waiting for input from Greg and MarkA/Yue Tao
     - 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
- None

ARs from Previous Meetings
- ARM Enablement - Jackie Huang
     - The ARM team is providing 6 servers to the StarlingX community and would like WR to host them.
          - Discussed in the TSC portion of the meeting  - See: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/stx-cores
          - This requires additional resources to manage the servers within WR; no current bandwidth to take this on.
          - Action: SteveG following up on funding.
          - Status: Remove. Will be tracked in the TSC
- 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: In progress. 
          - Discussion started on the mailing list: https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-August/014481.html
          - No updates since Aug 31.

Open Requests for Help
- NVIDIA gpu-operator Support in stx.8.0
     - https://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2023-September/014495.html
     - Status: Open
          - No response on the mailing list as of Sept 13.
- Not able to use NVIDIA drivers with StarlingX vbox installation - raised in the Aug9 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
          - No updates for the last 4 meetings