StarlingX/Project Priorities

Project Priorities
This Etherpad is the working document for updating this list for the next 6 months.

The following is an ordered list of our priorities from highest to lowest for the next six months.


 * 1) Build stability & mirror cache / improvements.  Owner: Build sub-project
 * 2) Basic processes & infrastructure  Owner: Docs & Infra sub-project
 * 3) Documentation  Owner: Docs & Infra sub-project
 * 4) Distro management.  Owners: Distro OpenStack subproject and Distro Non-OpenStack subproject
 * 5) No OpenStack updates planned for 2018.  Rocky/Stein in 2019.
 * 6) CentOS 7.5 update for Q4 2018 (October release)
 * 7) We will continually update components for CVE's.
 * 8) Ceph & qemu/libvirt to update to tip asap
 * 9) Patch backlog analysis and plan to address / close forks.  Owner Distro sub-projects
 * 10) Disposition of StarlingX staging - find a long term home for those repos.  Owner Dean
 * 11) Project decoupling - make the services more self contained. Owner stx-* services sub-projects (the Flock)
 * 12) KPI establishment, test automation and on-going improvements.  Owner Test
 * 13) Reduce patch backlog - openstack and non-openstack.  Owner Distro sub-projects
 * 14) Containerized OpenStack services support.  Owner Container subproject
 * 15) Distributed Cloud (owner stx-dcloud)
 * 16) Python 3 readiness.  Owner Distro-subprojects
 * 17) Package system independence Owner Non OpenStack Distro team (will need stx-update support)
 * 18) Operating System independence Owner Non OpenStak Distro team
 * 19) Networking features Owner Networking sub-project
 * 20) Intel-specific features: SGX, EPID, integrations with Intel platforms and software Owner TBD