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.
Ping list: bcafarel, elvira, frickler, mlavalle, mtomaska, obondarev, slaweq, tobias-urdin, ykarel, lajoskatona, jlibosva, averdagu, amotoki, haleyb, ralonsoh
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Announcements / Reminders
- Dalmatian / 2024.2 schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html
- We are now in Dalmatian release week (R - 7)
- Non-client library freeze: August 22nd, 2024 (R-6 week)
- Client library freeze: August 29th, 2024 (R-5 week)
- Dalmatian-3 milestone: August 29th, 2024 (R-5 week)
- (Permanent link during this release) Dalmatian (2024.2) cycle PTG summary and etherpad:
- Reminder: If you have a topic for the drivers meeting on Friday, please add it to the wiki @ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronDrivers
- Since we are at the end of the cycle, I would like to start using the priorities dashboard for patches in the "ready to merge" state. This could be older changes as well as new ones.
- Neutron Priority Dashboard
- For tap-as-a-service I can't set priority: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2015471%22+status:open
- Ironic email
- https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/5SX35AQZ65G6HWQ7WARLJTJK3ASAOWNU/
- We discussed this in the Drivers meeting
- https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/neutron_drivers/2024/neutron_drivers.2024-04-26-14.01.log.html
- Miguel will be point person
- If there is any impact or changes required in neutron it will be communicated
- Left open possibility of a new library, but need more investigation
- Zed/Yoga/Xena/Wallaby/Victoria have transitioned to Unmaintained
- Ussuri and Train have transitioned to EOL
- Caracal (2024.1) cycle links:
- Caracal (PTG): https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-neutron
- Permanent links:
- OpenInfra Live event - https://openinfra.dev/live/#all-episodes - there are some interesting presentations there, maybe You would be interested in some of them
Bugs and Gate issues
- Report from slaweq:
- Bugs without assignee or to be commented:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2076430 (rally job broken with recent keystone change)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2076181 (Accidentally no-allocation-pool for subnet leads to poor diagnosis of build-in dhcp service issues)
- low-hanging fruit
- This week haleyb is the bug deputy, next week will be rubasov
- Current bug count this week: 720, up 2 from last week
- New bug squash etherpad - contains old bugs that need to be closed
- https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/dalmatian-neutron-bug-squash
- (haleyb) I have closed a number of these the past few weeks, will update
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-8-12 | Brian Haley (haleyb) | |
| 2024-8-19 | Bence Romsics (rubasov) | |
| 2024-8-26 | Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle) | |
| 2024-9-2 | Ihar Hrachyshka (ihrachys) | |
| 2024-9-9 | Lucas Alvares Gomes (lucasgomes) | |
| 2024-9-16 | Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva) | |
| 2024-9-23 | Oleg Bondarev (obondarev) | |
| 2024-9-30 | Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh) | |
| 2024-10-7 | Lajos Katona (lajoskatona) | |
| 2024-10-14 | Yatin Karel (ykarel) | |
| 2024-10-21 | Miro Tomaska (mtomaska) | |
| 2024-10-28 | Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel) | |
| 2024-11-04 | Elvira García Ruiz (elvira) | |
| 2024-11-11 | Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) |
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
ryu os-ken
- To move os-ken from https://storyboard.openstack.org/ to launchpad.
- (former) Story board to track ryu backports: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2009283
- Active os-ken patches: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack/os-ken+status:open
- New patches in ryu:
Specs
- Specs: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack%252Fneutron-specs+status:open
- Open reviews:
Community Goals
- Last TC meeting summary: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-07-02-18.00.html
- Current Selected (Active) Goals:
- Add support for the service role in neutron API policies
- Service role implementation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2026182
- Patches complete, Slawek to follow-up with Gmann about integrated testing for it all
- Service role implementation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2026182
- Add support for the manager role in neutron API policies
- Neutron client deprecation
- Eventlet removal
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585
- And related proposal to have oslo.service use cotyledon and futurist to replace eventlet
- https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2069581%22 (ralonsoh)
- Add support for the service role in neutron API policies
Neutron-lib, planned refactoring and other impacts
- Started python type annotation on neutron-lib (discussed in last PTG)
- https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22type_tooling%22
- Thinking mypy vs pyright (mypy seems to be the community choice)
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:
- Week of August 12th
- (irc nick) topic
- (liushy) Bug fix and features for ML2/OVS - should try and merge this cycle
- Add a default goto table=94 for openvswitch fw https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/860767
- Add metadata path extension openflows https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/888097
- Add basical functionalities for metadata path extension https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/881535
- Check subnet service_type for subnet_create https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/901225 (merged)
- Refactor marionette external-network update to router gateway https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/908393 (merged)
- Add meter bandwidth limit support https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/860767
- Some of above need to have merge conflicts fixed with a rebase
Previous meeting logs
- Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.
