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Weekly Nova team meeting

MEETING TIME: Thursdays alternating 14:00 UTC (#openstack-meeting) and 21:00 UTC (#openstack-meeting)

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.

NOTE: this wiki page should be 'emptied' at the end of each meeting.

Agenda for next meeting

Next meetings scheduled for:

• August 18th 2016 2100 UTC, #openstack-meeting (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160818T210000)
• August 25th 2016 1400 UTC, #openstack-meeting (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160825T140000)

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

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• Release News
  • #link Newton release schedule: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Newton_Release_Schedule
  • #info Aug 22-26: final non-client library release (oslo) - so if you need things released from dependent libraries get them done soon
• Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • Gate status
    • #link check queue gate status http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html
    • Should we make gate-tempest-dsvm-multinode-live-migration voting now? It's relatively stable after skipping the volume-backed tests and we can control it in tree.
  • 3rd party CI status
    • http://ci-watch.tintri.com/project?project=nova&time=7+days
  • Critical bugs
    • none
• Reminders:
  • #info mriedem is out next week (8/22), dansmith is the backup
  • #info Stop proposing centralize / cleanup config option changes until at least after feature freeze on 9/2.
  • #link Newton review focus list: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-nova-priorities-tracking
  • #help https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage#Weekly_bug_skimming_duty Volunteers for 1 week of bug skimming duty?
• Stable branch status: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stable-tracker
  • stable/mitaka: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:stable/mitaka,n,z
  • stable/liberty: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:stable/liberty,n,z
• Subteam Highlights
  • Cells v2 (alaski)
  • Scheduler (edleafe/jaypipes)
  • Live Migration (PaulMurray)
  • API (sdague/alex_xu)
  • SR-IOV/PCI (moshele)
• Stuck Reviews
  • Please note "stuck review" means a review where there is some disagreement that needs resolving. Its not for reviews that just haven't had attention, except for exceptional cases. Where you see "?" feel free to just edit the wiki and add your item.
  • Any stuck code reviews to discuss:
    •  ?
• Open discussion
  • (markus_z) There are some bug reports emerging regarding "image cache" + "ephemeral disks" + "resize" which could need some attention:
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1608934 ephemeral disk creation fails for local storage with image type raw/lvm
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1610015 Creating an instance using images_type=lvm fails on ephemeral volume creation
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1558880 instance can not resize ephemeral in mitaka
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1605720 backing store missing for ephemeral disk on cold migration
  • (abhishekk) Can we backport this fix to mitaka
    • BUG: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1469179
    • Patches:
      • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/355091/ (submitted by melanie witt)
      • https://review.openstack.org/#/c/200870/ (image_ref approach)
    • ML Reference: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-August/101566.html

Sub-teams

There are also some Nova subteam meetings. See Nova#Active_Sub-teams: for details.

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here