Revision as of 23:26, 26 November 2021

Weekly Nova team meeting

Regular MEETING TIME: Tuesdays 16:00 UTC (#openstack-nova on OFTC)

This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on OpenStack Compute (Nova). We cover topics such as release planning and status, bugs, reviews, and other current topics worthy of real-time discussion.

Project Heartbeat

This information will be updated weekly but not mentioned in the meeting unless specifically called out on the agenda.

• #topic Release News
  • #link Nova Yoga schedule https://releases.openstack.org/yoga/schedule.html

• #topic Stable branch status

• • #link stable/xena: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/xena
  • #link stable/wallaby: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/wallaby
  • #link stable/victoria: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/victoria
  • #link stable/ussuri: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/ussuri
  • stable/train is EM

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #link bug triage how-to: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage#Tags
  • #help need help with bug triage

• #topic Gate status
  • #link check queue gate status http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html
  • #link 3rd party CI status (not so dead) http://ciwatch.mmedvede.net/project?project=nova

• #topic Review status page
  • #link http://status.openstack.org/reviews/#nova
  • Count: 438 (+20); Top score: 2303 (+21) (last refresh was 09-03)
  • #help Pick a patch near the top, shepherd it to closure

Agenda for next meeting

Next meetings scheduled for:

• Nov 23 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-11-23T16:00:00)
• Nov 30 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-11-30T16:00:00)
• Dec 07 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-12-07T16:00:00)
• Dec 14 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-12-14T16:00:00)

Where you see "?" feel free to just edit the wiki and add your item.

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #info No Critical bug
  • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?search=Search&field.status=New 29 new untriaged bugs (+1 since the last meeting)
  • #help Nova bug triage help is appreciated https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage
  • #link https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack/placement 33 open stories (+0 since the last meeting) in Storyboard for Placement

• #topic Gate status
  • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=gate-failure Nova gate bugs
  • #link https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Fplacement&pipeline=periodic-weekly Placement periodic job status
  • #info Please look at the gate failures, file a bug, and add an elastic-recheck signature in the opendev/elastic-recheck repo (example: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/759967)

• #topic Release Planning
  • Yoga-1 was Nova 18th #link https://releases.openstack.org/yoga/schedule.html#y-1
  • #info Spec review day helped to merge 3 specs

• #topic Review priorities
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/nova+OR+project:openstack/placement)+label:Review-Priority%252B1
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/816861 bauzas proposing a documentation change for helping contributors to ask for reviews

• #topic Stable Branches
  • #info stable gates are not blocked
  • #info Ussuri transitioned to Extended Maintenance for nova projects \o/

• #topic Sub/related team Highlights
  • Libvirt (lyarwood)

• #topic Open discussion
  • (dasp) Blueprint for review: "Make no_compression_image_types configurable" -- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/configurable-no-compression-image-types
    • Rationale: hardcoded behavior slows down cold migrations with local RAW disk images to 8 mbps and maxes CPU.
    • It might be a good idea to change the default value as well or disable compression for all types.
  • (jhartkopf) Update user data spec (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/816542)
  • (gmann) Specless BP approval request for RBAC community-wide goal
    • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/policy-defaults-refresh-2
    • Nova policy audit: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/rbac
    • Commnity-wide goal : https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/815158

Sub-teams

There are also some Nova subteam meetings. See Nova#Nova_subteams for details.

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here