StarlingX/Project Priorities

Project Priorities

This Etherpad is the working document for updating this list for the next 6 months.

The following is an ordered list of our priorities from highest to lowest for the next six months.

1. Build stability & mirror cache / improvements. Owner: Build sub-project
2. Basic processes & infrastructure Owner: Docs & Infra sub-project
3. Documentation Owner: Docs & Infra sub-project
4. Distro management. Owners: Distro OpenStack subproject and Distro Non-OpenStack subproject
   1. No OpenStack updates planned for 2018. Rocky/Stein in 2019.
   2. CentOS 7.5 update for Q4 2018 (October release)
   3. We will continually update components for CVE's.
   4. Ceph & qemu/libvirt to update to tip asap
5. Patch backlog analysis and plan to address / close forks. Owner Distro sub-projects
6. Disposition of StarlingX staging - find a long term home for those repos. Owner Dean
7. Project decoupling - make the services more self contained. Owner stx-* services sub-projects (the Flock)
8. KPI establishment, test automation and on-going improvements. Owner Test
9. Reduce patch backlog - openstack and non-openstack. Owner Distro sub-projects
10. Containerized OpenStack services support. Owner Container subproject
11. Distributed Cloud (owner stx-dcloud)
12. Python 3 readiness. Owner Distro-subprojects
13. Package system independence Owner Non OpenStack Distro team (will need stx-update support)
14. Operating System independence Owner Non OpenStak Distro team
15. Networking features Owner Networking sub-project
16. Intel-specific features: SGX, EPID, integrations with Intel platforms and software Owner TBD