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Weekly Nova team meeting

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

Extra Asia + EU meeting slot, first Thursday of every month 8:00 UTC in #openstack-nova in 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 Victoria schedule https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Wallaby_Release_Schedule

• #topic Stable branch status
  • ** #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:

• Sept 28 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-09-28T16:00:00)
• Oct 5 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-10-05T16:00:00)
• Oct 7 2021 8:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-10-07T08:00:00)
• Oct 12 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-10-12T16:00:00)
• Oct 19 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-10-19T16:00:00)

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)
  • No Critical bug
  • #link 13 new untriaged bugs (+0 since the last meeting): #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?search=Search&field.status=New
  • one open bug marked with xena-rc-potential tag #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=xena-rc-potential
  • please start marking release critical bugs with xena-rc-potential tag

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

• #topic Release Planning
  • Release tracking etherpad #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-xena-rc-potential
  • RC2 proposals are up for approval #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/811092 and https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/811094
  • Remember to propose regression bugfixes for a new RC with nova-xena-rc-potential
  • Final RC to be proposed before end of Thursday Oct 1st (only if needed)
  • (gibi): Potential Xena regression #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1945310

• #topic Review priorities
  • https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/nova+OR+project:openstack/placement)+label:Review-Priority%252B1

• #topic PTG Planning
  • every info is in the PTG etherpad #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-yoga-ptg
  • If you see a need for a specific cross project section then please let me know

• #topic Stable Branches
  • nova's stable/ussuri and stable/train are blocked (due to latest virtualenv uses latest setuptools which removed use_2to3)
    • large discussion occurred on the ML #link http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-September/024987.html
    • looks a consensus is going forward with pinning virtualenv on stable branches # link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/810461
  • placement branches are also impacted
  • we waited with the wallaby release until xena RC2 gets released, now we could release from victoria and ussuri together with wallaby as well

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

• #topic Open discussion
  • (bauzas) : Call for Outreachy mentoring extended until Sep 29 #link http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-September/024992.html
  • (add your points here)

Sub-teams

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

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here