CinderBobcatPTGSummary
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Introduction
The Seventh virtual PTG for the 2023.2 Bobcat cycle of Cinder was conducted from Tuesday, 28th March, 2023 to Friday, 31st March, 2023, 4 hours each day (1300-1700 UTC). This page will provide a summary of all the topics discussed throughout the PTG.
This document aims to give a summary of each session. More context is available on the cinder Bobcat PTG etherpad:
The sessions were recorded, so to get all the details of any discussion, you can watch/listen to the recording. Links to the recordings are located at appropriate places below.
Tuesday 28 March
recordings
- <Placeholder for Recording 1>
- <Placeholder for Recording 2>
Announcements
- 2023.1 (Antelope) is released!
ML: https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-March/032872.html
- 2023.1 (Antelope) Project update in OpenInfra live
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLTUTyJ1eU
PTL and TC Interaction Summary
We discussed about what are the challenges faced by a new contributor in OpenStack and what steps we can take to help improve the process. Some of the difficulties discussed are:
- Gerrit interface isn't very intuitive
- Devstack errors are not easy to debug and resolve: Cinder team didn't mandate installing devstack for Outreachy contribution this time which improved the contribution significantly.
- OpenStack requires more devops/linux-style knowledge than many other OSS projects
There is a crash course for learning linux concepts
Link: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
Manila team is working on a guide for outreachy applicants
Link: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy_Applicants_Guide#Outreachy_Applicants_Guide
2023.1 (Antelope) Retrospective
What was good?
- Added a new core -- Jon Bernard
What was bad?
- Delaying of RC1 and RC2 due to certain fixes
What should we stop doing?
- Someone mentioned that they don't like the recent practice of adding reviews to the meeting agenda, but on the other hand, it does get them some attention
- Keystone has "reviewathon" on Fridays. They separate managing bugs/reviews and doing reviews in a meeting. - We also have "festivals", but not every week.
- It would be good to have more people joining
- It was also mentioned that we should have a meeting where people can bring their own patches for reviews (not specifically XS)
- There was a concern regarding driver patches taking time for third party CI to respond and patches keep waiting even after CI passes
- we can discuss about their CI status and if not reporting, we can flag and warn them to fix it
What should we continue doing?
- Festival of XS reviews
- once-a-month video team meeting
Cinder contribution Information:
Link: https://tiny.cc/cinder-info
