Network/Meetings
The OpenStack Networking Team (Neutron) holds public meetings as advertised on OpenStack IRC Meetings Calendar. If you are unable to attend, please check the most recent logs.
Contents
Announcements / Reminders
- According to the Victoria cycle calendar https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html
- We just reached Victoria-2 milestone, next one will be in the week of 7th September which is also Feature and Requirements freeze,
- Networking-midonet - call for maintainers mail sent http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-June/015583.html
- we have some volunteer who wants to take care of networking-midonet: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-July/016154.html
- CFP deadline for virtual Open Infrastructure Summit is today: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-August/016245.html
- Virtual PTG summary http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-June/015368.html,
Blueprints
Blueprints which we should include in Victoria milestones:
- Blueprints for Victoria-3: https://launchpad.net/neutron/+milestone/victoria-3
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/enginefacade-switch
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/metadata-over-ipv6
- Patches https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:metadata-ipv6+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
- some patches are merged. Only 3 left to review now.
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/sg-sharing-as-readonly
- slow progress on this one currently
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/tagging-on-post
- The only missing bit for this is OSC patch.
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/address-groups-in-sg-rules
- Patches https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:bp/address-groups-in-sg-rules
- neutron-lib patch is IMO good to go now
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/dns-records-in-neutron
- is it ready?
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/default-dns-zone-per-tenant
- Neutron patch https://review.opendev.org/#/c/686343/ should be ready for review
- neutron-tempest-plugin test https://review.opendev.org/#/c/733994/ - I need to verify failures there
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1882804 - allow replacing the QoS policy of bound port
- WIP patch https://review.opendev.org/#/c/741452/
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1863113 - George framework
- Moved to neutron-next:
Community Goals
This slot is to used to track the progress of the community goals. https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/index.html#release-cycles
- Migrate CI/CD jobs to new Ubuntu LTS Focal
- Goal description https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/victoria/migrate-ci-cd-jobs-to-ubuntu-focal.html
- Devstack patch https://review.opendev.org/731207
- neutron functional and fullstack jobs switch https://review.opendev.org/#/c/734304/
- it should be ok with https://review.opendev.org/#/c/744500/
- neutron-tempest-dvr-ha-multinode-full job switch https://review.opendev.org/737370
- this one seems ok
- Zuul v3 migration
- based on last email from tosky http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-July/016058.html we are not done with this yet,
- etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/goal-victoria-native-zuulv3-migration
- Support IPv6-Only Deployments (slaweq)
- https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/train/ipv6-support-and-testing.html
- https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005477 (This seems to be used to track gmann's job changes)
- Patches for stadium projects are needed:
- https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:ipv6-only-deployment-and-testing+(status:open+OR+status:merged)+(project:%255Eopenstack/neutron.*+OR+project:%255Eopenstack/networking-.*)
- there are some patches for networking-bagpipe/bgpvpn and networking-odl there - maintainers of those projects, please take a look at them :)
- I just rebased neutron-tempest-plugin patch https://review.opendev.org/686043 and will try to continue work on it,
Bugs and Gate issues
amotoki was bug deputy last week
More discussion on this topic takes place during the Neutron CI meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronCI
- Confirmed gate failures
- Bugs that need attention
- All bug reports associated to deprecation issues
- Bugs Sheet
- Grafana dashboards
Bug deputy
You can find more information about what the role is here: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html#neutron-bug-deputy
During the Denver PTG we made the decision to institute a fixed rotation for the the bugs deputy role. The currently scheduled rotation is the following:
Date | who | note |
---|---|---|
June-15-2020 | Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel) | |
June-22-2020 | Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) | |
June-29-2020 | Hongbin Lu (hongbin) | |
July-6-2020 | Brian Haley (haleyb) | |
July-13-2020 | Lajos Katona (lajoskatona) | |
July-20-2020 | Nate Johnston (njohnston) | |
July-27-2020 | Akihiro Motoki (amotoki) | |
Aug-3-2020 | Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle) | |
Aug-10-2020 | Bence Romsics (rubasov) | |
Aug-17-2020 | Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh) | |
Aug-24-2020 | Lucas Alvares Gomes (lucasgomes) | |
Aug-31-2020 | Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva) |
In preparation for their duty week, deputies are encouraged to review the Neutron bugs policy: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html
Neutron performance subteam
New engine facade
- BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/enginefacade-switch
- Neutron "progress" patch: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/545501/
- Stadium projects' required changes: TBD
Docs
- The future of OpenStack documentation - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-July/099012.html
- Documentation bugs - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bugs?field.tag=doc
CLI/SDK
Allow not defined arguments to be passed in OSC, Documentation of neutronclient https://docs.openstack.org/python-neutronclient/latest/cli/neutron.html#extra-arguments-for-create-update-operation OSC work: TBD
SDK migration of neutronclient python bindings https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/neutron-openstacksdk-migration
Status of changes to deliver OSC (this needs to be revisit)
- https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/osc-transition-priorities
- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-neutronclient/devref/transition_to_osc.html
Neutron-lib, planned refactoring and other impacts
HOUSE KEEPING
- Neutron-lib work items and volunteers are being tracked via etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/neutron-lib-volunteers-and-punch-list
- For a list of "current" consumers who receive neutron-lib updates and consumption patches, see: http://codesearch.openstack.org/?q=neutron-lib-current
- For a complete list of neutron-lib consumption patches that may impact consumers see: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/message:%22NeutronLibImpact%22
PATCHES THAT NEED REVIEWS
- Decouple DB workstream/blueprint: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+topic:bp/neutronlib-decouple-db+label:Workflow%253D0
- Callback payload workstream: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+topic:use-callback-payloads+label:Workflow%253D0
On Demand Agenda
We can only pick one or two topics we can talk in the time left of the meeting. People should add ideas to the topics section. We will select one or two topics we can chew during the next meeting. Please follow the template below:
- Topic for the meeting (keep this template, please):
- (nick): Topic
- More details
- (slaweq) Terminology https://review.opendev.org/#/c/735251/ - please review
- (mlavalle) Requesting neutron-lib release to support the development of address groups: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:bp/address-groups-in-sg-rules+(status:open+OR+status:merged). Specifically, we want to make the API definition (https://review.opendev.org/#/c/741784/) available for further development on the Neutron side
- (ralonsoh) https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1887523: a good proposal to improve the DB performance, that could be done in parallel to https://review.opendev.org/#/c/739139/
- (ralonsoh) https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1888829: Improve core plugin extension filtering using the mechanism driver information (in other words: if loaded mech drivers do not support any ML2plugin extension, this extension will be gracefully removed).
- (ralonsoh) https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1889631: [OVS][FW] Multicast non-IGMP traffic is allowed by default, not in iptables FW
- (nick): Topic
Previous meeting logs
- Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.