CinderAntelopeMidCycleSummary

Introduction

Welcome to the Cinder Antelope midcycle summary page!

We conduct 2 midcycles every 6 months (OpenStack release) that acts as a checkpoint for the following:

• Revisiting/following up the topics discussed at PTG
• Discuss topics that were missed during PTG due to author's unavailability or lack of time or any other reason
• Status of work items based on the milestone

There could be more reasons but the above highlighted are the major ones.

For Antelope, the Midcycle will happen at:

1. R-16: 30th November, 2022 (Wednesday) 1400-1600 UTC
2. R-9: 18th January, 2022 (Wednesday) 1400-1600 UTC

Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-antelope-midcycles

Session Two: R-9: 18 January 2023

recordings

Recording for Midcycle 2: https://bluejeans.com/s/3cDgbhL7LLI

We held our second mid cycle of the 2023.1 (Antelope) development Cycle on 18th January (R-9 week) between 1400-1600 UTC.

There were a lot of topics discussed but two important cinder policies to keep in mind for active/new contributors is as follows:

• Do reviews to get reviews
  • The idea is to promote opensource contribution in terms of reviews and not just code commits
  • Contributors should actively review and also make their organization understand the importance of reviews in OpenStack contribution
  • For starting out with your code review journey, here is a guide proposed to efficiently do reviews
    • https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/contributor/gerrit.html#efficient-review-guidelines

• Avoid bare rechecks
  • Although not intentional, sometimes we skip the reason for rechecking which in general is not a good practice, see our guidelines regarding rechecks
    • https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/contributor/gerrit.html#ci-job-rechecks
  • There is also a "bare recheck" thread that keeps track of number of bare rechecks per project, we should try to keep that minimal
    • https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-December/031534.html

Session One: R-16: 30 November 2022

recordings

YouTube Recording for Midcycle 1: https://youtu.be/fKulY7whZlo

We held our first mid cycle of the 2023.1 (Antelope) development Cycle on 30th November (R-16 week) between 1400-1600 UTC.

We started out with specification status. we currently have 3 active specs:

• Encrypted backups: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder-specs/+/862601
• Use assisted volume extend API: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder-specs/+/864020
• New backup state: (A new spec will be proposed, old discussion at https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder-specs/+/818551)

We continued with drivers proposed/targeted for this cycle:

• HPE XP driver: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/815582
• Fungible NVMe TCP: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/849143

Other topics (following) can be found in the etherpad as well as in the recording.

• remove Xenserver image support
• cinderlib Recursion Error
• Infinidat driver improvements