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Weekly Nova team meeting

MEETING TIME: Thursdays 16:00 UTC (#openstack-meeting-3)

The Thursday 8:00 UTC slot is kept as a unofficial office hour on #openstack-nova for contributors who cannot attend on the official meeting slot.

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/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
  • #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
  • stable/stein 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:

• Marc 4 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-meeting-3 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210304T160000)
• Marc 11 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-meeting-3 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210311T160000)
• Marc 18 2021 16:00 UTC #openstack-meeting-3 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210318T160000)

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 bugs
  • <to be updated>#link 14 new untriaged bugs (+2 since the last meeting): #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?search=Search&field.status=New

• #topic Gate status
  • gate on master feels OK to me
  • 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 Runway status <to be updated>
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-runways-wallaby
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:bp/routed-networks-scheduling : merged \o/
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-driver-ip-metadata : merged \o/
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/support-interface-attach-with-qos-ports : the last necessary patch merged \o/ some cleanup patches are open

• • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nova-support-webvnc-with-password-anthentication : stephenfin's and melwit's comments has been resolved so needs re-review
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/compact-db-migrations-wallaby : nova_api db patches needs a second core, I see bauzas started on it
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/modernize-os-hypervisors-api : the api code landed, the python-novaclient patch and the policy patch needs some work
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-default-machine-type : has some negative review
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/allow-disabling-cpu-flags : good progress, but there is an open discussion in the review about a config option
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/hyperv-rbd : there was os-brick min version conflict so it is bounced from the gate. Needs second core to try again
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/smarter-usb-devices : needs a second core on the last patch
  • #link https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-socket-affinity : the bottom of the series needs a second core (gibi will look at it), the top of the series has some negative review

• #topic Release Planning
  • Feature Freeze is at 11th of March, in 1 weeks from now
  • <to be updated>We finished 4 and deferred 1 blueprints out of the 20 approved bp so far.
  • I've created the release tracking ether pad #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-wallaby-rc-potential
  • please use wallaby-rc-potential tag on bugs that you consider warranting a new RC if fixed
  • PTL and TC nomination periods are open until 9th of March: #link https://governance.openstack.org/election/ Feel free to do self nomination

• #topic PTG planning
  • PTG date had been announced: April 19-23, 2021
  • Use the PTG etherpad to collect topics: #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-xena-ptg
  • I will create a poll for agree on the timing of the sessions

• #topic Stable Branches
  • stable branches should be OK in general (there were some gate failures yesterday, though)
  • no next stable release planned yet
  • so nothing special...

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

• #topic Open discussion
  •  ?

Sub-teams

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

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here