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Weekly Nova team meeting

Regular MEETING TIME: Tuesdays 16:00 UTC (#openstack-nova on OFTC)

This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on OpenStack Compute (Nova). We cover topics such as release planning and status, bugs, reviews, and other current topics worthy of real-time discussion.

Project Heartbeat

This information will be updated weekly but not mentioned in the meeting unless specifically called out on the agenda.

• #topic Release News
  • #link Nova 2025.2 Flamingo schedule https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2025.1 Epoxy schedule https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2024.2 Dalmatian schedule https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2024.1 Caracal schedule https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2023.2 Bobcat schedule https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2023.1 Antelope schedule https://releases.openstack.org/antelope/schedule.html

• #topic Stable branch status
  • #link stable/2025.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2025.1
  • #link stable/2024.2: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2024.2
  • #link stable/2024.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2024.1
  • 2023.2 Bobcat (non-SLURP) is End of Life (tag: bobcat-eol)
  • 2023.1 Antelope (SLURP) is Unmaintained (branch:unmaintained/2023.1)

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #link bug triage how-to: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage#Tags
  • #help need help with bug triage

• #topic Gate status
  • #link check queue gate status http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html
  • #link 3rd party CI status (not so dead) http://ciwatch.mmedvede.net/project?project=nova

• #topic Review status page
  • #link http://status.openstack.org/reviews/#nova
  • Count: 438 (+20); Top score: 2303 (+21) (last refresh was 09-03)
  • #help Pick a patch near the top, shepherd it to closure

Agenda for next meeting

Next meetings scheduled for:

• July 15 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-07-15T16:00:00)
• July 22 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-07-22T16:00:00)
• July 29 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-07-29T16:00:00)

Where you see "?" feel free to just edit the wiki and add your item.

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #info One Critical bug
    • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/2116852
    • #info mdev sample building in nova-next is still disabled. *** https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/922140 bauzas working on a patch to enable it again.
• #topic Gate status
  • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=gate-failure Nova gate bugs
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-ci-failures-minimal
  • #link https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Fnova&project=openstack%2Fplacement&branch=stable%2F*&branch=master&pipeline=periodic-weekly&skip=0 Nova&Placement periodic jobs status
  • #info Please look at the gate failures and file a bug report with the gate-failure tag.
  • #info Please try to provide a meaningful comment when you recheck
  • #info (gibi): The ceph regression is now tracked in https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/72203 and I pinged two of the maintainers to let them know we need help.
  • #info (gibi): https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/grenade/+/955865 is merged. If you still see grenade failures due to timeout during DB dumping then please let me know in the bug.

• #topic tempest-with-latest-microversion job status
  • #link https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=tempest-with-latest-microversion&skip=0

• #topic Release Planning
  • #link https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
  • #info Nova deadlines are set in the above schedule

• #topic Review priorities
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2025.2-status

• #topic OpenAPI
  • #link: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22openapi%22+(project:openstack/nova+OR+project:openstack/placement)+-status:merged+-status:abandoned
  • #info 18 remaining.

• #topic Stable Branches
  • #info stable branches (stable/2025.1 and stable/2024.*) seem to be in OK state
  • release nova stable versions:
    • 31.0.1 (2025.1 Epoxy) https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/955058
    • 30.0.2 (2024.2 Dalmatian) https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/947847
    • 29.2.2 (2024.1 Caracal) https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/954474
  • (the latter is preparation for 2024.1 Caracal to move to Unmainained in October)
  • #info stable branch status / gate failures tracking etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-stable-branch-ci

• #topic vmwareapi 3rd-party CI efforts Highlights

• #topic Gibi's news about eventlet removal.
  • #link Blog: https://gibizer.github.io/categories/eventlet/
  • #link nova-scheduler series is ready for core review, starting at https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/947966

• #topic Open discussion
  • (sp-bmilanov) Bug #2092391: duplication instances when nova compute service restart: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/2092391
  • (gibi): just want to socialize a small independent test speed improvement series: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22unit-test-speedup%22 Easy to review and low risk patches.

• #topic Bug scrubbing
  • #info up to 167 :( Increased a lot on the 16th of June.
  • #link: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-bug-selection-for-triaging#L4
  • #link: https://truc.uggla.fr/ I kicked off this draft page to follow open bugs.

Sub-teams

There are also some Nova subteam meetings. See Nova#Nova_subteams for details.

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here