Revision as of 14:43, 10 October 2019

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:

• October 10 2019 2100 UTC, #openstack-meeting (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191010T210000)
• October 17 2019 1400 UTC, #openstack-meeting (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191017T140000)

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

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• #topic Last meeting
  • #link Minutes from last meeting: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2019/nova.2019-10-03-14.00.html
  • Actions:
    • #link db migration placeholders (merged) https://review.opendev.org/#/c/686411/
    • #link SEV bug warning patch https://review.opendev.org/#/c/686414/
    • #link update contributor guide https://review.opendev.org/#/c/685630/
      • more could be done here

• #topic Release News
  • Final RC **today**
  • #link Release todos: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-train-release-todo
  • #link Nova Ussuri schedule https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Ussuri_Release_Schedule

• #topic Summit/PTG Planning
  • Ussuri scope containment
    • #link start of thread http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-September/thread.html#9832
    • #link continued http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-October/thread.html#9835
    • #link Spec template update for "core liaison" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/685857/

• #topic Stable branch status
  • #link stable/train: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/train
  • #link stable/stein: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/stein
  • #link stable/rocky: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/rocky
  • #link stable/queens: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/queens

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • No Critical bugs
  • #link 74 new untriaged bugs (+2 since the last meeting): https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?search=Search&field.status=New
  • #link 3 untagged untriaged bugs (-1 since the last meeting): https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=-*&field.status%3Alist=NEW
  • #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 (seems to be back in action) http://ciwatch.mmedvede.net/project?project=nova

• #topic Reminders

• #topic Sub/related team Highlights
  • Placement (cdent/tetsuro)
    •  ?
  • API (gmann)
    • •  ?

• #topic Stuck Reviews
  • Please note "stuck review" means a review where there is some disagreement that needs resolving. It's not for reviews that just haven't had attention, except for exceptional cases.

• #topic Review status page
  • #link http://status.openstack.org/reviews/#nova
  • Count: 457 (+2); Top score: 2091 (-444 \o/)
  • #help Pick a patch near the top, shepherd it to closure

• #topic Open discussion
  • #help Volunteer core(s) for "Meet the Project Leaders" in Shanghai
    • #link ML thread http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-October/thread.html#9925
    • #link signup etherpad https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/meet-the-project-leaders
  • #help Volunteer for interop guidelines
    • #link http://paste.openstack.org/raw/781768/
    • (mriedem): FWIW I think this is the last time we added anything and it was the first time we added a guideline that depended on a microversion: https://review.opendev.org/509955/
  • [added for 2019-10-10] #link in-place numa rebuild https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/inplace-rebuild-of-numa-instances
  • (melwitt) requesting approval for specless blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/policy-rule-for-host-status-unknown
  • (stephenfin) approval for specless blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/remove-xvpvncproxy
  • (mriedem): Need to discuss options for https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1847367
  • (mriedem): Do we have a particular stance on features to the libvirt driver for non-integration tested configurations, e.g. lxc [ https://review.opendev.org/#/c/667976/ ] and xen [ https://review.opendev.org/#/c/687827/ ], meaning if they are trivial enough do we just say the driver's quality warning on startup is sufficient to let them land since these are changes from casual contributors scratching an itch?

Sub-teams

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

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here