CinderCaracalMidCycleSummary

Introduction

Welcome to the Cinder 2024.1 (Caracal) midcycle summary page!

We conduct 2 midcycles between the OpenStack development cycle (6 months) 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 2024.2 (Caracal), the Midcycle will happen at:

1. R-17: 6th December, 2023 (Wednesday) 1400-1600 UTC
2. R-7: 14th February, 2023 (Wednesday) 1400-1600 UTC

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

Session One: R-17: 06 December 2024

recordings

• Recording for Midcycle 1 (YouTube): https://youtu.be/QSKWA1St97A

We held our first mid cycle of the 2024.1 (Caracal) development Cycle on 6th December (R-17 week) between 1400-1600 UTC.

• Retiring cinderlib
  • Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinderlib-retirement
  • Major consumers of Cinderlib are Ember-CSI and oVirt
    • They are happy with old releases of cinderlib and don't require new development work into it
  • We will not transition to 2024.1 (Caracal) development
  • We will not accept any new patches in cinderlib
  • We will support the last 3 stable releases i.e. 2023.2, 2023.1 and Zed (approximately 18 months)
  • EM branches will transition to Unmantained (Victoria -> Yoga)
  • #action: rosmaita to follow up on work associated with the deprecation
• Rework of JovianDSS Driver
  • Patch: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/889284
  • Refactoring of an old driver
  • #action: Review the patch
• NFS online extend
  • Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/extend-volume-completion-action
• Two os-brick patches and acceptable usage of `__init__()`
• CI Monitoring
• Supporting AND operation on time comparison filters
• Several patches to the StorPool Cinder driver