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Weekly Meetings

Please feel free to add items to the Agenda under Open Discussion

1 04/05/2017
2 03/29/2017
3 03/22/2017
4 03/15/2017
5 03/08/2017
6 03/01/2017
7 02/15/2017
8 02/08/2017
9 02/01/2017
10 01/25/2017
11 01/18/2017
12 01/11/2017
13 01/04/2017
14 12/21/2016
15 12/14/2016
16 12/07/2016
17 11/30/2016
18 11/23/2016
19 11/16/2016
20 11/09/2016
21 10/19/2016
22 10/12/2016
23 10/04/2016
24 09/28/2016
25 09/21/2016
26 09/14/2016
27 09/07/2016
28 08/31/2016
29 08/24/2016
30 08/17/2016
31 08/10/2016
32 08/03/2016
33 07/27/2016
34 07/13/2016
35 07/05/2016
36 06/29/2016
37 06/22/2016
38 06/15/2016
39 06/08/2016
40 06/01/2016
41 05/25/2016
42 05/18/2016
43 05/11/2016
44 05/04/2016
45 04/20/2016
46 04/13/2016
47 04/06/2016
48 03/30/2016
49 03/23/2016
50 03/16/2016
51 03/09/2016
52 03/02/2016
53 02/24/2016
54 02/17/2016
55 02/10/2016
56 01/27/2016
57 01/20/2016
58 01/13/2016
59 01/06/2016
60 12/16/2015
61 12/9/2015
62 12/2/2015
63 11/25/2015
64 11/18/2015
65 11/11/2015
66 11/4/2015
67 10/21/2015
68 10/14/2015
69 10/07/2015
70 09/30/2015

04/05/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Our current milestone target is Pike-1 due April 10th
- Open Discussions topic will be follow after Announcements every even weeks.
- There are two hacking rooms for gathering.
Open discussions
- We should be prepared for onboarding rooms, where new contributors can come and we may teach them about the project, code, and give them an opportunity to meet established community members.
- adisky_ said that rdo-package for python-watcherclient will be prepared by number80 (Haïkel Guémar). We still need to find the ways to prepare watcher package.
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Noisy Neighbor Strategy has got algorithm description and now is ready to be reviewed
  - Define grammar for workload characterization Chris is waiting for Antoine's answer
  - Spec for noisy-neighbor-dashboard Vincent should give some answers
  - Support workload fingerprinting needs new PS
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs final core review
  - Add spec for services-versioned-notifications-api bp needs new PS
  - Support visualizing workload fingerprints needs reviews
  - Add spec for Cinder model integration needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Added Actuator Strategy still needs to be taken by someone. Can Vladimir take it?
  - Added suspended audit state needs reviews. Have some tested it yet?
  - Prevent the migration of VM with 'optimize' False in VM metadata needs final core reviews
  - gnocchi support topic should be reviewed
  - Added tempest test for workload_stabilization needs to be tested by someone else
  - Add action description needs reviews
  - Add Watcher JobStore for background jobs needs reviews
  - Run Watcher-API behind mod-wsgi needs new PS
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- exception when running 'watcher audit start XXX' needs unit tests to be added
- Zone migration strategy needs to have spec

03/29/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Project Navigator will have new version soon. We need to know if Watcher may meet some Maturity criteria.
- Etherpad for Boston discussions will be created by EOW. Everyone is invited to suggest topics to discuss.
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - service-versioned-notifications-api needs core reviews
  - workload-fingerprinting-fingerprint-visuzalization should be updated
  - workload-characterization-grammar needs to be answered by acabot
  - audit-tag-vm-metadata should be reviewed again
  - noisy-neighbor-dashboard needs to be answered by vincentfrancoise
  - cinder-model-integration needs reviews
  - background-jobs-ha needs new PS
  - fingerprint needs new PS and answer questions
  - add-power-on-off needs new PS
  - build-baremetal-data-model-in-watcher needs to be redefined with dtardivel
- Watcher
  - gnocchi support for strategies should be reviewed
  - suspended-audit-state needs core reviews
  - dynamic-action-description needs to add notifications
  - audit-tag-vm-metadata needs core reviews
  - Added tempest test for workload_stabilization needs new PS
  - dynamic-action-description needs reviews
  - noisy-neighbor-strategy needs reviews
- Watcher CLI & Dashboard
  - Adding horizon time filters to format the time in detail page needs final core review
  - Remove log translations needs final core review
Open discussions
- adisky_ said that rdo-package for python-watcherclient will be prepared by number80 (Haïkel Guémar). We still need to find the ways to prepare watcher package.

03/22/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Due to time changes the next meeting will be one hour later than usually.
Open discussions
- Python 3.5 Support – it is one of the main goals for Pike cycle and we need to meet completion criteria.
- WSGI Support. Does our API work with WSGI?
- Watcher is not presented in Debian-based systems due to issue. It would be great to build package by ourselves.
- adisky reported that python-watcherclient is not included in rdo repo of python-openstackclient.
Review Action Items
- Watcher
  - Versioned Notifications for service object needs reviews
  - Add Gnocchi datasource needs final core reviews
  - Added suspended audit state needs reviews
  - Prevent the migration of VM with 'optimize' False in VM metadata needs new PS
  - Adding tempest test that executes outlet_temp_control strategy. needs reviews
  - Reduced the code complexity needs new PS
  - stale the action plan needs final core reviews
  - Add gnocchi support in basic_consolidation strategy needs reviews
  - exception when running 'watcher service list' needs reviews
- Watcher specs
  - workload-characterization-grammar needs reviews
  - service-versioned-notifications-api spec needs reviews
  - specs for blueprint cancel action plan needs final core review
  - build-baremetal-data-model-in-watcher needs new PS
  - add-power-on-off needs reviews

03/15/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Two Watcher-related presentations has been accepted for Summit.
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - audit-tag-vm-metadata should be updated
  - workload-characterization-grammar still needs reviews
  - noisy-neighbor-dashboard needs answers to licanwei
  - cron-based-continuous-audits needs new PS with mentioning Vincent's propositions
  - add-power-on-off needs answers to David's questions
  - cancel-action-plan needs reviews
- Watcher
  - gnocchi-watcher needs core reviews
  - Actuator strategy needs to be taken by someone else since Vincent cannot work on it anymore
  - gnocchi support in basic_consolidation strategy needs new PS
  - Add period input parameter to vm workload consolidation and outlet temp control strategy. needs new PS
  - Added suspended audit state needs reviews
  - stale-action-plan needs new PS
  - audit-tag-vm-metadata needs reviews
  - Local copy of scenario test base class needs new PS
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Reduced the code complexity needs new PS
Open discussions
- Propositions for Forum Brainstorming are gathering now. What do we want to discuss?
- Adding Watcher install guide to openstack-manuals: who would like to take care of it?
- Watcher presentations for LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China

03/08/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Project onboarding rooms on Summit. 90 minutes to talk with people interesting in getting started with Watcher. When do we want to reserve one?
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - noisy-neighbor-dashboard needs new PS
  - noisy-neighbor-strategy needs new PS
  - gnocchi-watcher needs reviews
  - cancel-action-plan needs new PS, to answer questions
  - cron-based-continuous-audits needs new PS
  - dynamic-action-description needs core reviews
- Watcher
  - tempest-for-workload_stabilization needs to be tested by someone
  - service-versioned-notifications-api when WiP tag should be removed?
  - reduced-the-code-complexity needs reviews
  - Add gnocchi support in basic_consolidation strategy needs new PS
  - suspended-audit-state needs core reviews
  - stale-action-plan needs reviews
- Watcher CLI & Dashboard
  - Update test requirement needs final core review
Open discussions
- Zone Migration wiki page should be removed because it has to be implemented as part of Watcher. Submit new BP.
- Create a slack channel and connect it to watcher IRC channel

03/01/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTG is over, all blueprints have been prioritised
- Prudhvi Rao Shedimbi is in Watcher Core now [1]
- Hidekazu Nakamura is in Watcher Core now [2]
- licanwei is in Watcher Core now [3]
- jed56 stepped down from Watcher Core [4]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - audit-tag-vm-metadata needs new PS to provide a way to filter tagged VMs by Watcher itself (according to PTG proposals)
  - gnocchi-watcher needs reviews
  - noisy-neighbor-strategy needs new PS and answer on questions
  - workload-characterization-grammar take a look into other frameworks like TOSCA and push new PS
  - stale-action-plan needs reviews
  - action-versioned-notifications-api needs core reviews
  - reduce-power-consumption needs new PS and answer on questions
  - cancel-action-plan needs to give some answers and provide new PS
- Watcher
  - gnocchi-watcher needs reviews
  - action-versioned-notifications-api needs final core reviews
  - suspended-audit-state needs reviews
- Watcher CLI & Dashboard
  - Remove support for py34 needs final core reviews
  - Remove unused logging import needs final core reviews
  - Refactor the watcher dashboard enable file needs final core reviews
  - Update the path of watcher dashboard enable file needs final core reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- cinder model integration needs to get review from cinder devs and to be assigned
- cron-based-continuous-audits provide spec with cron and DB persistence updates
- notifications-actionplan-cancel needs spec
- service-versioned-notifications-api needs spec and new PS for implementation
Open discussions
- talk about Nova discussions at PTG (acabot)
- Zone Migration wiki page should be removed because it has to be implemented as part of Watcher. Submit new BP.
- Create a slack channel and connect it to watcher IRC channel

02/15/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTG is in 1 week, etherpad is open and a 1st draft of agenda is available / no projector in the room
- Prudhvi Rao Shedimbi has been nominated to Watcher Core [5]
- licanwei has been nominated to Watcher Core [6]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - All those specs should be completed and retargeted to Pike :
  - Suspended audit state needs a gate fix
  - specs for blueprint cancel action plan needs a new PS
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs reviews
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs final reviews from core
- Watcher
  - workload-balance-tempest needs core final reviews
  - Add Action Notification needs core final reviews
  - Reactivate watcher dashboard plugin in devstack/local.conf.controller needs core final reviews
  - dynamic-action-description needs a new PS
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Bug fixing in progress for Ocata-rcfinal targeted for February 16th (all fixed bugs should be backported to stable/ocata branch)
  - Reviews needed for bugs #1662406, #1642623 & #1662395
  - We will release a v1.0.1 on February 16th due to #1662810
Open discussions
- Ceilometer API is now deprecated and not supported anymore in devstack

02/08/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher has been released in v1.0.0 [7]
- Watcher Dashboard has been released in v1.0.0
- alexchadin is elected Watcher PTL [8]
- PTG is in 2 weeks, etherpad is open and a 1st draft of agenda is available
- 3 lightning talks & 1 presentation submitted for Boston summit [9]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - All those specs should be completed and retargeted to Pike :
- Watcher
  - workload-balance-tempest needs core final reviews
  - Add Action Notification needs core final reviews
  - check the state of action plan needs specs rework
  - dynamic-action-description needs a status
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Bug fixing in progress for Ocata-rcfinal targeted for February 16th (all fixed bugs should be backported to stable/ocata branch)
Open discussions
- Should we enable Watcher dashboard by default ? [10]
- Ceilometer API is now deprecated and not supported anymore in devstack

02/01/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- alexchadin will be appointed as our new PTL soon [11]
- PTG is in 3 weeks, a dedicated etherpad is now open, please submit topics that you want to discuss
- Call for presentations for Boston summit will close next Monday; our dedicated etherpad already has 4 talks suggested (1 has already been submitted). Please review them by EOW and add a "submitter" for each proposal.
- Watcher has been released in v0.34
- Watcher Dashboard has been released in v0.8
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Specs for action-plan-versioned-notifications-api needs final reviews from core
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Noisy Neighbor Strategy has still work in progress
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs reviews
  - Spec for noisy-neighbor-dashboard needs reviews
- Watcher
  - check the state of action plan needs to be fixed to be part of Ocata release
  - action-plan-versioned-notifications-api needs final reviews from core to be merged before the release
  - Add first alembic version for db migration needs final review from core
  - Use RPC cast() to be asynchronous needs a new PS
  - workload-balance-tempest needs reviews
  - Adding additional details to notification logs needs a status
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Watcher O3-rc1 will be release tomorrow and Ocata stable branch will be created
- we will also release watcher-dashboard v1.0 tomorrow
Open discussions

01/25/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Pike PTLs self nomination has started and Watcher has no candidate yet [12]
- Meeting time for odd weeks will be moved from 9:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-alt [13]
- PTG is in one month, a dedicated etherpad is now open, please submit topics that you want to discuss
- Call for presentations for Boston summit is now open (deadline is February 6th), a dedicated etherpad is ready to be completed
- Watcher CLI has been released as 1.0.0
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs a final core review before release
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Noisy Neighbor Strategy has still work in progress
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs reviews
- Watcher
  - New default planner has been merged
  - Graph cluster model instead of mapping one & Remove obsolete Resource element have been merged
  - Fix multinode tempest test failure multinode gate is still being fixed
  - check the state of action plan needs final core reviews
  - Documentation update needs reviews
  - add Ocata release notes needs reviews
  - Add period input parameter to basic strategy is in merge conflict
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Ocata 3 Milestone, with Feature and Requirements Freezes: 26 Jan
- Ocata RC1 target: 2 Feb
- Ocata Final Release candidate deadline: 16 Feb
Open discussions

01/18/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTG is in one month, a dedicated etherpad is now open, please submit topics that you want to discuss
- Call for presentations for Boston summit is now open (deadline is February 6th), a dedicated etherpad is ready to be completed
- Pike PTLs self nomination will start next week and Watcher needs to find a new PTL [14]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs to be rewritten after implementation as it differs from original spec
  - Add improvements to Applier to make it parallel needs a final core review
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Noisy Neighbor Strategy has still work in progress
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata still has TODOs
  - cluster energy saving needs to be resubmitted as launchpad does not allow to change the superseded state
- Watcher
  - Automatic triggering audit has been merged
  - Added Monasca Helper & Multi datasource support for Basic Consolidation have been merged
  - Fix multinode tempest test failure multinode gate is still being fixed
  - New default planner needs final core reviews
  - Graph cluster model instead of mapping one needs final reviews and all strategy authors should try their strategy
  - check the state of action plan needs final reviews
  - dynamic action description needs a status
- Watcher CLI & dashboard
  - both must be released by January 19th
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- ocata-3 is due January 23rd (feature freeze)
Open discussions

01/11/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- a new video demo of Watcher is available on YouTube
- Call for presentations for Boston summit is now open (deadline is February 6th), a dedicated etherpad is ready to be completed
- Pike PTLs self nomination will start January 23rd and Watcher needs to find a new PTL [15]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs to be merged soon as code is already available
  - Add improvements to Applier to make it parallel should be reviewed and merged as its dependant from previous spec
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Noisy Neighbor Strategy has still work in progress
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata still has TODOs
  - cluster energy saving needs to be resubmitted as launchpad does not allow to change the superseded state
- Watcher
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher needs a gate fix to be merged
  - New default planner needs a gate fix to be merged
  - Added Monasca Helper needs a new PS
  - Multi datasource support for Basic Consolidation needs a new PS and reviews
  - check the state of action plan needs a new PS
  - dynamic action description needs a status
- Watcher CLI
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient needs final reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- - all unstarted BPs have been moved to ocata-rc1, ocata-3 is due January 23rd
  - non-client libraries (watcher CLI) must be freezed on January 19th
Open discussions
- Graph model in Watcher, how do we handle unsupported objects like network & storage ? [16]
- Sync with fingerprinting work from Intel presented at Barcelona summit ?

01/04/2017

Roll Call
Announcements
- Pike PTLs self nomination will start January 23rd and Watcher needs to find a new PTL [17]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS an answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Spec for Noisy Neighbor Startegy needs reviews
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata There are +1s but TODOs are still left in spec
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs final reviews
  - Add improvements to Applier to make it parallel needs reviews
  - cluster energy saving needs to be resubmitted as launchpad does not allow to change the superseded state
- Watcher
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher needs final reviews & merge
  - Graph model needs reviews
  - Added Monasca Helper needs reviews
  - Multi datasource support for Basic Consolidation needs discussions
  - New default planner & check the state of action plan needs final reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add auto_trigger support needs final reviews & merge
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Watcher ocata-3 has started and finishes on January 23rd with 12 BPs to finish
Open discussions

12/21/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS an answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs a new PS
  - Add specs for cache occupancy strategy needs reviews
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata There are +1s but TODOs are still left in spec
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs a jenkins fix & reviews
- Watcher
  - centralise-config-opts remove _opts PS has to be pushed
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher needs final reviews & merge
  - Graph model needs reviews
  - New default planner needs a new PS
  - check the state of action plan needs a new PS
- Watcher CLI
  - Add auto_trigger support needs final reviews & merge
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Watcher ocata-3 has started and finishes on January 23rd with 12 BPs to finish
- Improve Applier to execute Actions in parallel needs reviews
Open discussions
- cluster energy saving

12/14/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- we had a couple of gate issues last days due to upper constraints [18]
- Watcher mid-cycle will be held in Atlanta in February Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd [19] please register at [20]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS an answering previous comments
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs completion
  - Add specs for cache occupancy strategy needs a new PS
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs final reviews from core
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs a jenkins fix & reviews
- Watcher
  - centralise-config-opts must be merged
  - update strategy table when parameters_spec changes must be merged
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher needs final reviews & merge
  - New default planner needs final reviews & merge
  - check the state of action plan needs final reviews & merge
  - Repair log parameter error needs a bug reference & reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add auto_trigger support needs reviews & merge
  - Support parents field along with planner changes needs reviews & merge
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Watcher ocata-2 must be released tomorrow December 15th
- Improve Applier to execute Actions in parallel has been added
- is vm-migration-ordering dependent on Improve Applier to execute Actions in parallel ?
- Strategy to detect and migrate the the cache greedy VM affecting other's performance is dependent on Define grammar for workload characterization & Workload Characterization and QoS which have not been started yet, I would suggest to postpone it to Pyje cycle
Open discussions

12/07/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS after answering comments
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs final reviews from core
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs final reviews from core
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs reviews
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs work items
  - Add specs for cache occupancy strategy needs reviews
- Watcher
  - centralise-config-opts needs reviews & jenkins fixes
  - check the state of action plan needs reviews
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher should be merged
  - Specific exception for stale cluster state was added needs reviews
  - Documentation for Workload Balance Migration Strategy needs reviews
  - Add auto_trigger in audit API should be abandonned
- Watcher CLI
  - Add auto_trigger support should be merged
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient needs reviews
  - changes to make consistent with other openstack component needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Our current target is ocata-2 due next week
Open discussions

11/30/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- acabot will be presenting Watcher at Cloud Expo Europe today
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs reviews
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs reviews
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs reviews
  - Support Description For Dynamic Action needs reviews
- Watcher
  - centralise-config-opts needs reviews
  - check the state of action plan needs discussions
  - Add auto_trigger support to watcher needs reviews ?
  - Specific exception for stale cluster state was added needs reviews
  - Add auto_trigger in audit API needs a status
  - Fix rally gate test needs reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add auto_trigger support needs reviews ?
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient needs reviews
  - changes to make consistent with other openstack component needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Our current target is ocata-2
Open discussions

11/23/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- python-watcher v0.32 & python-watcherclient v0.26 & watcher-dashboard v0.6 have been released for ocata-1 on November 18th
- recap for Barcelona has been sent [21]
- a discussion has been started regarding the way we should validate Watcher strategies [22]
- acabot didn't has the time to prepare the trello board for the meeting
- acabot presented Watcher & our big tent journey on November 22nd @openstackdayfrance2016 [23]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT should now be reviewed and merged
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs final reviews from cores
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs reviews
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs reviews
- Watcher
  - watcher-notifications-ovo merged
  - audit-versioned-notifications-api merged
  - Documentation for Outlet Temperature Based Strategy looks good and will be merged soon
  - centralise config options need reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Ocata-2 is our current target due December 12th
Open discussions

11/16/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- We should send a recap of discussions in Barcelona on the ML
- We will start a thread on the ML to discuss the way we can test available strategies
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - team priorities for Ocata have been merged
  - scale out or delete instance based on workload should be abandonned
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT should now be reviewed and merged
  - Specs for watcher-versioned-objects must be merged as code has already been merged
  - Specs for audit-versioned-notifications-api needs final reviews from core
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs reviews
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs discussions
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs a jenkins fix & reviews
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs reviews
  - Add specs for cache occupancy strategy needs discussions
- Watcher
  - Documentation for workload stabilization [24] & workload consolidation [25] have been merged
  - watcher-notifications-ovo will be merged today
  - audit-versioned-notifications-api will be merged today
  - Added Model base class + related doc will be merged today
  - Change hardware.cpu_util in workload_stabilization should be merged
  - Implemented base + moved plugins & service conf should be merged
  - Documentation for Outlet Temperature Based Strategy need a new PS and reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Ocata-1 will be released tomorrow
- A couple of unfinished blueprints have been moved to Ocata-2
Open discussions
Should we use Trello to keep progress on Watcher ?

11/09/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- The OpenStack Summit in Barcelona is over, minutes are available on etherpad [26]
- Team priorities for Ocata have to be merged [27]
- Watcher CLI v0.25.1 has been released after Summit freeze [28]
- Feedback for the mascot is requested by Friday 11th [29]
- We should send a quick recap of discussions on the ML
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT needs a new PS and final reviews from core
  - scale out or delete instance based on workload needs a new PS
  - Specs for watcher-versioned-objects needs a new PS and final reviews from core
  - Specs for audit-versioned-notifications-api needs a new PS
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid is in merge conflict and needs final reviews from core
  - Audit tag in VM Metadata needs a new PS
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs reviews
- Watcher
  - watcher versionned objects needs reviews
  - watcher notifications ovo needs reviews
  - audit versioned notifications api needs reviews
  - check the state of action plan needs reviews
  - Add doc for workload-stabilization spec needs a new PS
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs a jenkins fix and reviews
  - Added Tempest API tests for /scoring_engines needs reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add functional tests to watcherclient is still WIP ? needs reviews ?
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Our current milestone target is Ocata-1 due November 14th
- automatic triggering audit status as it is an essential BP for Ocata-1
Open discussions
- Shouldn't all strategies have an associated tempest test to make sure they work?
- Should we keep this meeting time slot in the future ?
- Should we use Trello to keep progress on Watcher ?

10/19/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- meeting agenda for Barcelona design summit is finalized [30]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Specs for watcher-notifications-ovo has been merged
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT needs final reviews from core
  - scale out or delete instance based on workload needs a new PS
  - Specs for watcher-versioned-objects needs reviews
  - Specs for audit-versioned-notifications-api needs reviews
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs reviews
  - Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs reviews
  - Add improvements to the planner and workflow mechanisms needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Audit Scope Handler & Service supervisor have been merged
  - Strategy doc template has been merged
  - watcher versionned objects needs reviews
  - watcher notifications ovo needs reviews
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs a jenkins fix
  - Added Tempest API tests for /scoring_engines needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone target is Ocata-1 due November 14th
- status for Write Tempest CLI tests for Watcher CLI ?
Open discussions
- now that we have a template for documenting strategy, we need to add doc for each of them
- Audit tag in VM Metadata add this to ocata priorities ?

10/12/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- meeting agenda for Barcelona design summit is nearly finalized, please add missing topics before end of week [31]
- sessions titles have been updated on the official agenda [32]
- should we schedule discussions with Congress ? Nova (Unconference session) ? Monasca ?
- Watcher will have a room at the PTG in Atlanta [33]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - scale out or delete instance based on workload needs discussions
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT needs final reviews from core
  - Specs for watcher-notifications-ovo needs reviews
  - Specs for watcher-versioned-objects needs reviews
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS
- Watcher
  - Add strategy template doc needs reviews
  - Add Audit Scope Handler needs reviews
  - watcher versionned objects needs reviews
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs a jenkins fix
  - Added composite unique name constraints needs reviews
  - Moved Watcher doc plugin outside main package needs reviews
  - Added Tempest API tests for /scoring_engines needs reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add support for Audit Scope needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone target is Ocata-1 due November 14th
- Define when an action plan is stale/invalid needs a spec
Open discussions
- now that we have a template for documenting strategy, we need to add doc for each of them

10/04/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- please complete topics list in barcelona summit etherpad
- we need to define a topic for each work session & fish bowl
- Watcher Newton final release has been released [34]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Resize instance base on workload needs reviews from core
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT needs reviews from core
  - Add team priorities for Ocata needs reviews from core
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs a new PS
  - Define grammar for workload characterization needs a new PS
- Watcher
  - Add Audit Scope Handler needs reviews from core
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs a new PS
  - Add service supervisor needs reviews
  - Added Tempest API tests for /scoring_engines needs reviews
  - Watcher versioned objects needs reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Add service support needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Improve the storage of the ActionPlan has many dependencies and should be started asap
- we still have many unassigned blueprints for Ocata [35]
Open discussions
- We need more reviewers on patches

09/28/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- please complete topics list in barcelona summit etherpad
- Watcher Newton final release will be submitted today'
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Resize instance base on workload needs reviews from core
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs a new PS
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDI needs a new PS
  - Add team priorities for Ocata needs a new PS with BP split
- Watcher
  - Add Audit Scope Handler needs reviews
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs reviews
  - Add service supervisor needs reviews
  - Added Tempest API tests for /scoring_engines needs reviews
- Watcher CLI
  - Added support for Client creation from KS session needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Added action details needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Improve the storage of the ActionPlan has many dependencies and should be started asap
Open discussions
- We need more reviewers on patches

09/21/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher Newton RC1 (v0.30.0) has been released, please follow instructions sent on the ML [36]
- we need your help to test the release and submit bugs before the final release next week
- acabot will be Watcher PTL for Ocata cycle
- Newton stable branches have been created by the TC for watcher & python-watcherclient
- design summit sessions timeslots are available on the dedicated etherpad [37]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Resize instance base on workload needs a new PS and should be retargeted to Ocata
  - automatic triggering of action plans for AUDIT needs reviews
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
  - Add team priorities for Ocata needs reviews and will be merged during the summit
  - We need a spec for Define grammar for workload characterization
- Watcher
  - Add Audit Scope Handler needs reviews
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Dashboard devstack plugin has been disabled until a bug is fixed in devstack [38]
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- a prioritization of blueprints for Ocata is available on launchpad, please review it
- scalability tests - platform status
Open discussions
- Notifications in Watcher is too big and need to be segmented
- we should provide a user documentation for each strategy
- fix requirements

09/14/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTL candidates should submit their candidacy before Sunday [39]
- Official Ocata schedule has been released [40]
- Kolla has packaged Watcher [41]
- We will have 1 fishbowl, 3 working sessions & 1 contributors meetup during the Design Summit in Barcelona [42]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Resize instance base on workload should be retargeted to Ocata
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
  - automatic triggering audit needs a new PS and we should probably limit the scope
- Watcher
  - merge bug fixes and tests improvements before September 15th (rc-1 release), candidates are :
  - merge rally support for rc-1
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- we need a spec for Notifications in Watcher
- we need a spec for Define grammar for workload characterization
Open discussions
- we need to review priorities for Ocata because all BPs are medium or low...

09/07/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTL nominations will be held next week [43], as we are now an official project, candidacy must be submitted through Gerrit [44]
- 3 patches are needed for Newton branch handled by dhellmann [45]
- watcher 0.29.0, python-watcherclient 0.25.0 & watcher-dashboard 0.4.0 have been announced
- Confirm speakers for our talk in Barcelona [46]
- Project Teams Gathering will be held in Atlanta Feb 20-24, 2017 [47]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Resize instance base on workload should be retargeted to Ocata
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
  - automatic triggering audit needs reviews
  - Add Ocata entry for specifications needs reviews
  - Change host aggregates id type to integer needs core reviews
- Watcher
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs discussion regarding Heat
  - Add documentation for Scoring Module should be merged before branching
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support needs a doc addition
  - When the action plan is empty, it's state is incorrect needs discussion
  - Implemented GMR plugin to show CDM structures is needed for scalability tests
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Current milestone is Newton-rc1 due September 12th - only one BP (scalability tests) & bug fixes
- dependency to discuss between Limit Concurrent Actions & Improve the storage of the ActionPlan
- License cost aware VM placement in Openstack needs discussion
Open discussions
- Platform status for scalability tests [48]
- Quick overview of our test bed [49]

08/31/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Only one talk accepted for Barcelona summit [50]
- Newton-3 release has been submitted to the release team [51]
- hvprash is now core contributor on Watcher specs
- Watcher has got Rally support [52]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Newton approved specs have been moved to implemented folder [53]
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center needs final review from core
  - Resize instance base on workload should be retargeted to Ocata
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
  - automatic triggering audit needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Scoring module has been merged and doc is in review
  - Cluster model objects wrapper has been merged
  - Newton release notes have been merged
  - Graph cluster model implementation needs reviews
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support needs tests ?
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Current milestone is Newton-rc1 due September 12th
- only one BP (scalability tests) & bug fixes
Open discussions
- Platform status for scalability tests

08/24/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- please vote for promoting hvprash as core on watcher-specs [54]
- welcome Walmart new contributors
- notifications for acceptance (or not) of our talks for Barcelona OpenStack Summit will be sent on August 25th
- Space requested for the design summit is 3 workroom sessions (40 min slots), 1 fishbowl session (40 mins slot) & 1 contributors meetup (friday afternoon)
- thx to michaelgugino, we now have official OpenStack-Ansible playbooks for Watcher, dtardivel & vincentfrancoise are now core on this repo
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Update define-the-audit-scope spec has been merged
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center needs a quick status
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs to be retargeted and reviewed
  - Resize instance base on workload needs reviews
  - automatic triggering audit needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Add Scoring Module implementation needs a final review from core before EOW
  - Added strategy ID + Action Plan syncing needs final review from core before EOW
  - Check unspecified parameters when create audit needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- newton-3 is due next week, code freeze on Friday 26th
- vincentfrancoise added a BP Make Watcher objects versioned as code was already available
- Add unit test for watcher/doc.py needs to be discussed
Open discussions
- help needed for Add scaffolding for OpenStack-CI tests ?
- PKB in docker containers ?
- everything ready for scalability tests on Intel infra ?

08/17/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- alexchadin is now core on Watcher
- please vote for promoting hvprash as core on watcher-specs [55]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center needs a new PS and final reviews
  - Update define-the-audit-scope spec needs reviews from core
  - Added spec for automatic triggering audit needs a new PS
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
  - Move Mitaka specs to Newton cycle & Add ocata folders and template for specs need +2
- Watcher
  - Add Scoring Module implementation needs more reviews
  - Added Monasca Helper has to be merged
  - Added strategy ID + Action Plan syncing needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone in Newton-3 due August 29th [56]
- I suggest to move unimplemented BP to Ocata and keep rc-1 & rc-final for bug fixes only
- resize-overload-instance needs a new description and specs
Open discussions
- email sent to Monasca PTL to get a status on Ceilosca code
- can we package perfkit benchmarker in a docker container ?

08/10/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher release mode has been updated to cycle-with-milestones but TC prefer that we wait for the Ocata cycle [57]
- ongoing discussions on the ML regarding Watcher use cases for Nova placement API [58] & [59]
- tpeoples stepped down from Watcher core [60]
- alexchadin is promoted as Watcher core, please vote on the ML [61]
- jellyfish is now the official Watcher mascot [62]
- votes for Barcelona talks are closed, we will get the results on August 25th
- last mid-cycle etherpad with actions [63]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Update define-the-audit-scope spec need an update reflecting mid-cycle discussions (limit the scope to availabilityZone and aggregatehost)
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center needs reviews from core
  - Added spec for automatic triggering audit needs a new PS
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Add goal_id, strategy_id and host_aggregate CLI options to audit has been merged
  - Add Scoring Module implementation needs reviews
  - Added Monasca Helper needs reviews
  - Added strategy ID + Action Plan syncing needs reviews to close the efficacy-indicator BP
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support any update since Rally additions ?
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone in Newton-3 due August 29th [64]
- Handle race condition of sync from multiple decision engines should be abandoned (mid-cycle discussion)
- any update regarding perform scalability test for watcher ?
- resize-overload-instance needs an updated description and specs
Open discussions
- Thanks to POC [65] & bench [66] done by vincentfrancoise, we need to decide which metrics back-end we need to support in Watcher
- please look at your actions on the mid-cycle etherpad

08/03/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Alexchadin from Servionica core contributor proposal on a the openstack-dev mailing list
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center needs reviews from core
  - Limit concurrent actions invoked by Watcher new spec
- Watcher
  - Add scoring engine commands has been merged
  - Add scoring engines to database and API layers has been merged
  - Implement goal_id, strategy_id and host_aggregate into Audit api has been merged
  - Add goal_id, strategy_id and host_aggregate CLI options to audit will be merged soon
  - cluster-model-objects-wrapper has been merged
  - Added Monasca Helper PoC with monasca
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- use parameters to set the threshold has been merged

Open Discussion

07/27/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- talks are open to votes
- Watcher has his own mascot, a jelly fish !
- Watcher mid-cycle
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center
  - Update define-the-audit-scope spec need a new patchset]
  - Added spec for automatic triggering audit need a new patchset]
- Watcher
  - scoring module need final reviews
  - cluster-model-objects-wrapper need a patchset
  - Add goal_id, strategy_id and host_aggregate CLI options to audit need a new patchset
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support status
- Watcher dashbord
  - Remove discover from test-requirements need a new patchset
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- - use parameters to set the threshold need a status

Open Discussion

07/13/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Today is the deadline to submit talks: [67], we need a leader (in bold) for each talk in charge of submitting it right after the meeting. 3 speakers max per talk.
- mid-cycle agenda is open for additions / sync with Nova team in progress [68]
- sync with Nova scheduler team last meeting logs, we will adda topic in their agenda and try to attend an unconference session [69]
- Mascot for Watcher please come at the midcyle with a couple of animals or natural features in mind that represent Watcher
- Release naming process is open for Q & P, you should have received an email with a link to vote
- no meeting next week due to the midcycle
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Make default Planner generic has been merged
  - Update define-the-audit-scope spec needs reviews
  - Blueprint priorities for Newton needs reviews
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - Watcher n2 released today
  - Add continuously optimization has been merged
  - Add policies for API access control to watcher project has been merged
  - Uniform Airflow migration strategy implementation has been merged
  - Make default Planner generic to handle new action has been merged
  - Add scoring engines to database and API layers needs W+1
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support needs new tests
- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameter has been merged
  - Add scoring engine commands needs reviews from core
- Watcher dashboard
  - Add support continuously-optimization has been merged
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone is Newton-3 - BPs list is subject to change during the midcycle next week
- Refactor continuous audit type needs approve
Open Discussion

07/05/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- last week to complete talk descriptions for the summit, we need 2 more speakers and description updates [70]
- mid-cycle agenda is open for additions / sync with Nova team in progress [71]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Make default Planner generic needs reviews
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - Enable strategy parameters has been merged
  - Add continuously optimization needs reviews from core
  - Add scoring engines to database and API layers needs reviews from core
  - Add policies for API access control to watcher project needs more unit tests
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support needs new tests
  - Uniform Airflow migration strategy implementation needs final review from core
- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameter needs a discussion regarding parameter name
  - Add scoring engine commands needs reviews from core
- Watcher dashboard
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs reviews
  - sync with global requirements ?
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone is Newton-2 / release due July 11th (suggest to freeze July 8th)
Open Discussion
- How to deal with packaging (puppet) when updating conf parameters ?

06/29/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher packages are available for Red Hat & Debian [72] [73]
- 2 weeks away from submission deadline, please register as speakers in [74], we also need to complete descriptions
- a first draft of mid-cycle agenda is available [75]
- Watcher should respect the Nova policies spec has been discussed with the Nova scheduler team meeting logs
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Update the continuously optimization spec needs reviews from core as its already implemented
  - Cluster model objects wrapper needs reviews from core
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - Enable strategy parameters is in progress, test feedback requested
  - Add continuously optimization needs reviews from core
  - Add scoring engines to database and API layers needs reviews
  - Add policies for API access control to watcher project needs reviews
  - Add rally-jobs folder to get rally support needs new tests
- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameter needs a new PS
  - Add scoring engine commands needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs a new PS
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone is Newton-2 / release due July 11th
Open Discussion
- Global Requirement: is watcher-dashboard project automatically sync with OS Global Requirements ?
- How to deal with packaging (puppet) when updating conf parameters ?

06/22/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Call for presentations opens for Barcelona summit, etherpad [76] to complete with talk description & speakers
- Agenda for the mid-cycle is open [77]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db has been merged
  - BP continuously-optimization has been amended with a new spec Update the continuously optimization
  - spec Cluster model objects wrapper updated, need review from core team
  - new spec Watcher should respect the Nova policies pushed for review
- Watcher
  - Enable strategy parameters requires an update to resolve merge conflict
  - Select destinations filter implementation requires an update to resolve merge conflict
  - Add continuously optimization needs review
  - Add scoring engines to database and API layers need review

- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameters requires an update to resolve merge conflict
  - Add scoring engine commands need review
- Watcher dashboard
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs review

Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone is Newton-2
Open Discussion
- Global Requirement: is watcher-dashboard project automatically sync with OS Global Requirements ?

06/15/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Call for presentations opens for Barcelona summit, etherpad [78] to complete with talk description & speakers
- Watcher CLI documentation will be generated on docs.openstack.org next time the release team will tag it
- Release notes management has been set-up for Watcher [79]
- Translation server is up and running [80], translations are stored on git only above 70% of coverage per language
- a request has been sent to OSIC [81] for a test cluster in september [82]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db has been merged
  - Cluster model objects wrapper needs reviews after work items additions
- Watcher
  - Efficacy indicator has been merged
  - Enable strategy parameters needs a new PS
  - Implement immutable audit_template CRUD needs an update
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs reviews
  - Uniform Airflow migration strategy implementation needs reviews
- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameter needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs reviews
- Watcher puppet
  - This commit adds the initial project files has been merged
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- our current milestone is Newton-2
- hanrong took the BP Define policies for accessing Watcher components
- Provide a way to filter available hosts that can be targeted for a migration has been deferred due to specs improvements needed
Open Discussion
- jed56 looked at nova policies and how we can interact properly with Nova Respect Nova policies
- Debian & RDO packages

06/08/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher n1 version has been released by the release team but no announcement sent yet
- Watcher documentation is now available on docs.openstack.org & Add Watcher to docs.openstack.org
- Watcher specs are available on specs.openstack.org
- The Call for Presentations is now open for the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, October 25-28 ( submission deadline is July 14th at 6:59 UTC)
- Mid-cycle details have been announced on the ML
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db needs a new PS / discussion ?
  - vincentfrancoise will provide work items for Cluster model objects wrapper
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - Uniform Airflow migration strategy implementation needs reviews
  - Add continuously optimization needs reviews from core
  - efficacy indicator need reviews from core
  - Enable strategy parameters needs a new PS
  - WIP Implement immutable audit_template CRUD needs a status
  - Select destinations filter implementation needs a status
- Watcher client
  - Add support continuously-optimization needs reviews
  - Enable strategy parameter needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
- Watcher puppet
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- current milestone is Newton-2
- update needed on Provide a scoring module for Watcher
- Define the scope of an Audit as a pool of resources has been assigned to Charlotte Han from ZTE, can we set a target milestone ?
- Automatic triggering Action Plans has been assigned to Jinquan Ni, what about your current implementation of Provide a way to filter available hosts that can be targeted for a migration ?
Open Discussion
- now that Watcher is big-tent, should we provide a DB migration tool ?

06/01/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher has been accepted for the OpenStack big tent 1 2 3
- Stackalytics has a Watcher Official module
- This achievement has been announced on the ML
- Newton-1 release has been packaged on May 30th watcher v0.27, python-watcher client v0.23 & watcher-dashboard v0.3
- seanmurphy published a blog post about Watcher
- mid-cycle details will be announced on the ML by EOW
- Watcher puppet repository is now available
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add Watcher Continiously Optimization spec has been merged
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db needs review from core
  - Cluster model objects wrapper has been unassigned from tpeoples
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - plugins-parameters has been merged
  - 2 strategies have been merged Workload balance migration strategy implementation & Add Overload standard deviation strategy
- Watcher client
  - openstackclient-plugin has been merged
- Watcher dashboard
- Watcher puppet
  - puppet-watcher: Initial commit is in review
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Newton-2 is our next milestone due July 11th (just before the mid-cycle)
Open Discussion
- should we add puppet repository and watcher-dashboard to project-config to get IRC notifications from CI ?

05/25/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Meeting time will be 9:00 UTC (odd week)
- Commit message for big tent inclusion is now ready to be submitted
- Watcher puppet repository creation currently in review
- sballe shared a slides set to compare Watcher/Congress/Craton scope
- our next mid-cycle will be announced on the ML soon
- discussion started around getting an infrastructure to test Watcher on etherpad
- discussion on the ML about Suggest to not deprecate os-migrations API
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Specs for plugins-parameters & Airflow event based migration strategy spec have been merged
  - Enable strategy parameters is still in merge conflict
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db needs review from core
  - Add Watcher Continuosly Optimization spec, Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
  - Cluster model objects wrapper work items are still missing
- Watcher
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy needs a new PS
  - Workload balance migration strategy implementation needs a new PS
  - More reviewers needed on plugins parameter
- Watcher client
  - openstackclient-plugin will be merged soon
  - Enable strategy parameter still in merge conflict
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- code reviews needed on our 7 BPs targeted for Newton-1, I have added watcher-core group as reviewers for most of them
Open Discussion

05/18/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Craton project (fleet management) officially launched mailing list thread, looking for a common mid-cycle with Watcher team
- Commit message for big tent inclusion open for reviews
- Sync with Congress ?
- Dont forget that meeting time has changed every 2 weeks starting next week
- jwcroppe jed56 alexchadin sballe_ to give feedback on Congress Delegation for VM-placement
- Watcher puppet repository creation currently in review
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Specs for plugins-parameters needs reviews from core (as code is already open to reviews)
  - Airflow event based migration strategy spec needs reviews from core
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one & Add Watcher Continuosly Optimization spec need reviews
  - Audit parameters should be persistent in Db is in WIP
  - Cluster model objects wrapper work items are still missing
- Watcher
  - get goal from strategy has been merged
  - 2 strategies are in review Workload balance migration strategy implementation & Add Overload standard deviation strategy
- Watcher client
  - openstackclient-plugin need reviews
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- - Watcher release for Newton-1 is due on May 30th
  - update needed for Allow specification of threshold defining when optimization is needed
Open Discussion
- - which keyword should we use in OpenStack official CLI to identify Watcher service (currently infra-optim) ?
  - should we already ask for an infra to OSIC before being part of the big tent ?

05/11/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Sync with Congress team ?
- Watcher team meeting time change suggested mailing list thread
- Watcher mid-cycle details are available on eventbrite
- Sync with Puppet team to create a puppet repo for Watcher mailing list thread
- jwcroppe jed56 alexchadin sballe_ to give feedback on Congress Delegation for VM-placement
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Provide efficacy indicators has been merged
  - Cluster model objects wrapper work items are still missing
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy needs reviews from core
  - Airflow event based migration strategy spec needs reviews from core
  - Allow the developer of a Watcher plugin to add specific parameters needs reviews from core
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one need reviews
- Watcher
  - get goal from strategy will be merged soon
  - 2 strategies are in review Add Overload standard deviation strategy & Workload balance migration strategy implementation
- Watcher client
  - openstackclient-plugin need reviews
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- tomasz will not be able to complete the scoring module for n1 release
- any update on Audit parameters should be persistent in Db
- current target is newton-1 (13 BPs & 19 bugs targeted)
- we need to delay some BPs to Newton-2
Open Discussion
- regarding the big tent inclusion, acabot will propose a commit message to be reviewed by our team for next meeting
- does any partner has a larger test infrastructure than 10 nodes to test Watcher scalability ?

05/04/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- OpenStack Summit Austin
  - Etherpad with all discussions
  - Watcher talk is available on YouTube and SlideShare
  - Sync with Congress & Monasca
  - We will keep this time for our meeting on even week and try to find a most suitable time for Asia on odd weeks (starting next week - week 19)
  - Aggreed to propose Watcher for the big tent in May
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Provide efficacy indicators needs a new PS
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper work items missing
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy needs reviews from core
  - Airflow event based migration strategy spec needs reviews from core
  - Allow the developer of a Watcher plugin to add specific parameters needs reviews from core
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one have been submitted
- Watcher
  - A lot of code is currently in review (23 reviews open)
  - most of them are related to get-goal-from-strategy where we need more core reviewers
  - 2 strategies are in review Add Overload standard deviation strategy & Workload balance migration strategy implementation
- Watcher client
  - vincentfrancoise started to implement the plugin for the official openstack CLI
  - code reviews are open
- Watcher dashboard
  - Added Goals and Strategies to Dashboard is in review
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Our current target is Newton-1 (May 30th), we have 6 essential blueprints targeted for this release
- a new BP is available to improve tempest tests with the new unified CLI
- Servionica would like to take continuously-optimization BP
- Audit parameters should be persistent in Db has been set as Discussion state
Open Discussion
- Monasca integration for collecting metrics - Enforcing Application SLAs with Congress and Monasca
- Congress integration - continual enforcement
- Valet Holistic Data Center Optimization for OpenStack
- mid-cycle details in July
- Create a puppet-watcher project: who should be in charge of creating it? (pav0)

04/20/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- one week from the Summit, slides are ready for Watcher session https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_h5gjY7WQPMZm5SU3MzTjM5dXM
- proposed agenda for our meetings is available https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Design_Summit/Newton/Etherpads#Watcher
- etherpad is open https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/watcher-newton-design-session
- open thread in the ML about "Api and Decision Engine integration - design question" http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-April/092437.html
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add specification for Watcher Scoring Module has finally been merged
  - Provide efficacy indicators looks good to jwcroppe & acabot
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy needs reviews from core
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec needs reviews from core
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper needs a status
- Watcher
  - get-goal-from-strategy needs reviews as there is a lot of code and impacts on Watcher
  - WIP Add Overload standard deviation strategy is still a WIP ?
  - Select destinations filter implementation probably needs a new PS already
- Watcher client
  - code in review with get-goal-from-strategy
- Watcher dashboard
  - 2 bug fixes in review
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- a couple of specs need to be submitted to Newton folder
- our new target is Newton-1 (May 30th) https://launchpad.net/watcher/+milestone/newton-1
- at the summit, we will update priorities and target for blueprints in the backlog
Open Discussion
- Do we need to add a new core reviewer to watcher-specs ?
- Shall we keep uuid field as part of POST method in API?

04/13/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Experimental job for running tempest tests with multinodes is available
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Add specification for Watcher Scoring Module waiting second core reviewer agreement for merging
  - Provide efficacy indicators: waiting for core reviewer agreements
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy waiting for core reviewer agreements
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec waiting for core reviewer agreements
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper : what is the status ? we have -1 from Sean and +1 from Thomas (last update: Mar 23)
  - Airflow event based migration strategy spec need new review (last update: Mar 21)
- Watcher
  - get-goal-from-strategy need new reviews
  - WIP Add Overload standard deviation strategy
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Use oslo.service in Watcher need a new patchset
- Add parameters verification when Audit is being created need a new patchset
Open Discussion
- There are many specifications which have been reviewed several times but they need a core reviewer agreement for merging. Do we need to add a new core reviewer to watcher-specs ?
- Problem of discovering resources strong coupling between watcher-api and watcher-de

04/06/2016

Roll Call

Announcements
- watcher mitaka-rc-final "rcfinal" (v0.26.0) & python-watcherclient rcfinal (v0.22.0) & watcher-dashboard rcfinal (v0.2.0) have been released on April 5nd
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Watcher Scoring Module & Provide efficacy indicators can be merged
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper needs a new PS and reviews
  - Airflow event based migration strategy spec & Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec needs reviews
  - Graph model describing virtual and physical elements in a data center & Consolidation of multiple Action-plans into a single one two new specs
- Watcher
  - & https://review.openstack.org/#/c/297557/ Enable strategy parameters needs a new PS and reviews
  - Workload balance migration strategy implementation needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Added Goals and Strategies to Dashboard needs reviews
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Added Goal model into Watcher DB we need to amend the spec to tackle the issue of goal syncing.
- Many bugs have been merged: Added information on plugin mechanism to glossary Disabled PATCH, POST and DELETE for actions Invalid states for Action Plan in the glossary Added missing support for resource states in unicode format in VM workload consolidation strategy

Open Discussion
- We need to retarget blueprints from Mitaka to Newton (watcher-specs)
- regarding the Openstack Summit in AUSTIN, we should run a battery of tests on watcher to be sure that everything is working (Watcher and the available strategies).

03/30/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Contributing wiki page updated with BP & bugs policies defined in previous meetings
- Final slides set for the OpenStack summit
- we should start sharing agendas for the summit
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy has been merged
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec & Add specification for Watcher Scoring Module need additional reviews
  - Provide efficacy indicators can be merged as the license issue is non blocking
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper needs additions (work items)
- Watcher
  - Integrated consolidation strategy with watcher has been merged
  - A lot of code has been released by vincentfrancoise on The achieved goal should be returned by each strategy
  - Enable strategy parameters needs reviews
  - Workload balance migration strategy implementation needs a new PS and reviews
- Watcher client
  - Enable strategy parameter needs reviews
  - Updated CLI for new goals/strategies API needs reviews
- Watcher dashboard
  - Watcher-dashboard will be impacted by The achieved goal should be returned by each strategy implementation in Watcher, we need a contributor to work on it
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- RC-Final target 5 BPs & 9 bugs and is due on April 1st
Open Discussion
- We need many code reviewers for the next 3 days to have a complete rc-final version
- Should we split in different repos the framework code and the available strategies ?

03/23/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- watcher RC-1 (v0.25) & python-watcherclient RC-1 (v0.21.1) have been released on March 22nd
- First draft of slides for Austin talk are open for comments
- PTL election - acabot is the only candidate so he will be the PTL for Newton
- first patch to fix our tempest gate received a +2
- Accept multiple hosts when calling live migration received a -1
- jwcroppe and tpeoples were presenting Watcher to IBM teams last week
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Achieved goal should be returned by each strategy must be reviewed and implemented asap as we discovered dependencies with Allow specification of threshold defining when optimization is needed & Provide a scoring module for Watcher
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec needs a new PS
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper needs reviews
  - Add specification for Watcher Scoring Module needs reviews
  - Provide efficacy indicators lock on licences discussion
- Watcher
  - 7 bugs fixed until last meeting / all unfixed rc-1 bugs are re-targeted for rc-final
- Watcher client
  - Rename TRIGGERED state as PENDING was not applied on python-watcherclient
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- 9 BPs & 18 open bugs targeted for RC-final (April 1st) - we need to postpone BPs (and probably bugs) to Newton
Open Discussion
- What is the good practice to re-assign a bug to someone ?

03/16/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- PTL election is now open to candidacy on the ML
- First draft of slides for Austin talk are open for comments
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - a lot of specs are open and need reviews
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec is waiting for review
  - workload balance migration strategy spec has been merged
- Watcher
  - purge DB command has been implemented
  - Integrated consolidation strategy with watcher has been submitted for reviews
  - Workload balance migration strategy implementation has been submitted for reviews
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- RC-1 is targeted for March 18th
Open Discussion
- we need to fix our tempest gate
- should we continue to use the term "hypervisor" when we talk about Nova metrics ?

03/09/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mitaka-3 version of Watcher has been released on pypi & launchpad (v0.24)
- Our talk about Watcher has been accepted for the OpenStack summit and will take place on Thursday 2.20pm
- Our proposition of hands-on lab has been rejected
- PTL elections will start on friday
- WSME is not being actively maintained and used in Watcher
- Watcher stated as a ported to Python 3 project on RDO blog
- RC-1 & RC-final milestones created on launchpad
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - workload balance migration strategy spec needs a +1 on workload to be merged
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec needs reviews
  - Provide efficacy indicators needs reviews
  - WIP: Cluster model objects wrapper needs reviews
  - Add specification for Watcher Scoring Module needs reviews
  - Provide a way to filter available hosts that can be targeted for a migration needs a spec
- Watcher
  - WIP on db purge engine
  - Integrated consolidation strategy with watcher needs reviews
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
Open Discussion

03/02/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mitaka-3 is expected tomorrow !
- Do we define RC milestones or we set the next target to Newton-1 ? Mitaka official schedule
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Added specification for ZHAW load consolidation has been merged
  - optimization threshold spec has been merged
  - Define the scope of an Audit as pool of resources has been merged
  - workload balance migration strategy spec needs review since last PS
  - Provide efficacy indicators needs a new PS
  - Add Overload standard deviation strategy spec has been submitted, can we start reviewing ?
  - Cluster model objects wrapper is a WIP but tpeoples wants feedback
  - we need specs for Provide a scoring module for Watcher & Provide a way to filter available hosts that can be targeted for a migration
- Watcher
  - reviews needed on Purge soft-deleted Watcher objects
  - a couple of bugs fixed and merged since our last meeting
  - implementation of optimization threshold & ZHAW load consolidation should now start
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- we need a BP to be able to register new actions without having to change code in the default planner
Open Discussion

02/24/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Nominating Vincent Francoise to Watcher Core
- Mid-cycle highlights shared on the ML
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Provide efficacy indicators has been merged very fast but needs additions https://review.openstack.org/#/c/283449/
  - Can we merge Added specification for ZHAW load consolidation & workload balance migration strategy spec ?
  - optimization threshold spec needs additional reviews
  - Specs needed for :
- Watcher
  - Improve DevStack documentation for beginners experienced by tomasz
  - 17 bug fixes are in review https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/watcher+status:open
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
  - initial commit merged
  - launchpad set-up needed https://launchpad.net/watcher-dashboard
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Mitaka-3 high priority BPs https://launchpad.net/watcher/+milestone/mitaka-3
- we need to start implementing Workload balance migration strategy for summit hands-on lab
- we need a spec for Provide a scoring module for Watcher
Open Discussion

02/17/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
- Watcher
  - Delete related actions when deleting an action plan implemented
  - imports clean-up (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/277369/)
  - bug fixes in review
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
  - initial commit still in review
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- SSL support
  - bugs identified in devstack (https://bugs.launchpad.net/devstack/+bug/1544932 & https://bugs.launchpad.net/devstack/+bug/1544903)
  - one bug open on Watcher (https://bugs.launchpad.net/watcher/+bug/1545012)
Open Discussion
- share a review of actions from our mid-cycle on the ML

02/10/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Watcher mid-cycle etherpad
  - use cases refresh
  - review priorities for Mitaka
  - big tent checklist
  - next summit actions
- specs for Accept multiple hosts when calling live migration have been submitted for Newton by edleafe
- talks are open to votes
  - https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/vote-for-speakers/Presentation/7108
  - https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/vote-for-speakers/Presentation/7113
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - Airflow balance migration strategy spec needs reviews
  - Added specification for ZHAW load consolidation needs a new PS after jwcroppe comments
  - Define the scope of an Audit as pool of resources needs reviews
  - Provide a scoring module for Watcher needs a description update and a drafted spec
  - Provides a wrapper to deal with cluster model objects needs a drafted spec
  - Provide a way to filter available hosts that can be targeted for a migration needs a drafted spec
  - Watcher Overload (cpu, ram) algorithm needs reviews
- Watcher
  - Delete linked actions when deleting an action plan needs reviews
  - Better cleanup for Tempest tests needs reviews
  - doc improvement for set-up devstack https://review.openstack.org/278244
- Watcher client
- Watcher dashboard
  - New repository available https://github.com/openstack/watcher-dashboard
  - Watcher Dashboard - Initial commit needs reviews but code base is very large
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- we need a BP for ability to merge multiple action plans into a single one (tmetsch)
- we need a Nova BP to add a Nova API call to return all acceptable migration target hosts for a given instance, paginating if necessary (edleafe)
- 24 bugs open for mitaka-3 https://launchpad.net/watcher/+milestone/mitaka-3
Open Discussion
- Watcher SSL support
- next mid-cycle in Boston area on week 30
- meeting with Congress

01/27/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mitaka-2 Watcher released on 25th of January (9 BPs & 37 bugs targeted)
- Mitaka-3 is our new target for 3rd of March
- gzhai from Intel is now core contributor
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - specification for ZHAW load consolidation is now open for reviews
  - Provide an efficacy indicator is open for reviews
  - Specs for Define the scope of an Audit as a pool of resources will be on review in the coming days
  - We need specs for Watcher Overload (cpu, ram) algorithm
- Watcher
  - Add Voluptuous to validate the action parameters needs review
  - Addition of tempest scenarios
- Watcher client
  - Mitaka-2 version released
- Global openstack/requirements changes need to be merged before proposing Watcher to projects list
  - watcher
  - watcher-client
- Reviews / testing? needed for OpenStack convenience class for consuming different API versions
- Email sent to ML regarding DevStack plugin (http://markmail.org/message/e6gf45mpqgdvgnvk)
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Many new BPs added that needs specs (please assign yourself if you start working on one of them) :
- we will prioritize them during the mid-cycle meetup / please add your blueprints before EOW
Open Discussion
- cross-project liaison
- final agenda for the mid-cycle
- Experimental job for running tempest tests
  - What does it take to get this to be an automatic non-voting job (eventually voting gate job)?

01/20/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- mitaka-2 release target is 22nd January with 10 BPs implemented and 41 bugs fixed (17 still in progress) mitaka-2
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - status for Allow specification of threshold defining when optimization is needed
  - Provide a gain indicator associated with the actions plan specs are in review [83]
- Watcher
  - doc updates before mitaka-2 in review Add diagrams to the architecture doc page & Re-organize the Wacher documentation Home Page
  - Add a dynamic loading of Actions handlers in the Watcher Applier feature is now available in Watcher but we need to add schema to declare the contract of an action and oslo configuration of actions
  - Tempest basic set up needs reviews
  - 13 bugs fixed since our last meeting
  - External API versioning is in progress, hoping to finish up and test by Thursday (tpeoples)
- Watcher client
  - Make watcherclient use graduated oslo lib & Support translation merged
  - a review in progress on Sync Action resource fields
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- bug status on mitaka-2
- Creation of a watcher audit with an unknown audit template generates bad error (tpeoples)
Open Discussion
- Do we need to appoint a cross-project liaison? See http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/cross-project.html#cross-project-specification-liaisons

01/13/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- first draft of mid-cycle agenda available [84]
Review Action Items
- Watcher specs
  - outlet Temperature based migration strategy spec has been merged
  - 2 new blueprints have been created to handle latest comments Allow specification of threshold defining when optimization is needed & provide an helper to call Nova select_destinations() from the scheduler's API
  - Provide a more dynamic Actions management solution merged and implementation is in progress
  - reviews needed on Define an api to allow the description in Watcher of constraints & first draft of watcher-consolidation-grammar
- Watcher
  - Many reviews [85] are related to Provide a more dynamic Actions management solution and need to be merged together
  - Implement DevStack plugin merged
    - Do we want to send out a note to the ML?
- Watcher client
  - Launchpad page has been set up
  - Make watcherclient use graduated oslo lib implemented but needs reviews [86]
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Please update the delivery field on Watcher launchpad to your assigned BPs
- we need an updated status on BPs Watcher Overload (cpu, ram) algorithm & Add new client commands to control cluster balancing
- Provide a plug-in for Horizon will need a dedicated git repo, could we call it "watcher-dashboard" ?
- bug status for mitaka-2
Open Discussion
- Proposed talks for OpenStack Summit in Austin [87] (deadline February 1st)
  - [Susanne] Talk submission is open now. Please add the emails you want me to register you with on the etherpad and I'll submit them soon
- Agenda for the mid-cycle 1st draft [88]
- Moving to use global openstack/requirements will require us to use master instead of liberty (https://bugs.launchpad.net/watcher/+bug/1533282)
- Look into what harlowja's super scheduler is aiming to do (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/210549/)

01/06/2016

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mid-cycle details available on [89]
- Invitation email sent to the community [90]
- INTEL POC related to outlet temperature optimization has been demonstrated
- Watcher UI video is now available [91]
Review Action Items
- Watcher
  - most of the reviews have been merged or adandonned before end of year thanks to jed56 & vincentfrancoise [92]
  - outlet temperature based migration strategy has been merged [93] but need improvements (see comments)
  - we need an updated status on reviews [94], [95], [96]
  - devstack plugin is still in review [97]
- Watcher specs
  - could we merge this review [98] as it is related to POC already merged ?
  - we need reviews on [99] to start implementation asap
  - specs from cdupont & michele must be reviewed asap [100] & [101]
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- implementing custom actions require changes in the data model, should we provide a migration of the data model ?
- we would like to start integrating taskflow in Watcher applier, do we need a spec for [102] ?
- can we update the state of [103] ?
- Is [104] related to improvement of INTEL POC ?
- we need someone to handle multiple versions of OpenStack components API [105] targeted for mitaka-2
- we need an updated status on BPs [106] & [107]
Open Discussion
- Proposed talks for OpenStack Summit in Austin [108] (deadline February 1st)
- Agenda for the mid-cycle must be completed [109]

12/16/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mid-cycle details available on [110]
- mitaka-1 milestone has been released
- Watcher UI video available on [111]

Review Action Items
- Watcher
  - Watcher plugin for devstack [112]
  - i18n translation [113]
  - Rename command audit [114]
  - Intel Thermal PoC [115]

- Watcher specs
  - a review is on progress on dynamic definition of action [116]
  - A review is always in progress on thermal optimization specs [117]
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- Tempest [118]
- Specs are in progress for [119]

Open Discussion

12/9/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- Mid-cycle details available on Eventbrite [120], you can already register
- more info on accommodations and agenda coming later
- Watcher code has been tagged 0.21.0 (mitaka-1) and python-watcherclient as 0.20.0 (mitaka-1)
- Doc is up-to-date on [121]
Review Action Items
- Watcher
  - Glossary has been merged for mitaka-1 [122]
  - A lot of current reviews are related to code refactoring [123]
  - tpeoples has submitted devstack integration code [124]
  - A big thank you to Darren Shaw & Gábor Antal for there patches & bug fixes
- Watcher specs
  - A review is in progress on thermal optimization specs [125]
  - A move to implemented state for telemetry integration [126]
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- tpeoples should split [127]
- Specs are in progress for [128] & [129]
- bcom submitted BPs on an efficacy indicator [130] and Watcher UI [131]
- ZHAW submitted a BP for a rudimentary cloud consolidation algorithm [132]
- Any update from Michele on [133] or Alex on [134] ?
Open Discussion
- regarding functional tests, there is an approved BP available here [135]
- there is also an available blueprint on translation [136]

12/2/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- mid-cycle meetup details
- versionning added to launchpad (mitaka-1 : today, mitaka-2 : 01/21/16, mitaka-3 : 03/03/16)
- as we are using commonly etherpad, I started a new one to reference all of them [137]
Review Action Items
- Documentation :
  - a Glossary has been added to the Watcher documentation and MUST now be reviewed [138] before code refactoring
  - an architecture page has been updated with the current architecture diagram [139]
  - do we need to put this diagram in watcher-specs to work on Watcher v2 architecture ? (or we wait for the mid-cycle ?)
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- we should merge all stable code for mitaka-1 and tag the current version
- Intel split up this BP [140] before writing associated specs
- Please review:
  - Intel BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/outlet-temperature-based-strategy
  - and spec: https://review.openstack.org/252268
- Taylor split up this BP [141] - still a TODO, will have done by 12/3
- bcom has some refactoring to do [142] after merging the glossary [143] -> should be done today
- bcom will submit a BP to have a performance indicator associated with the action plan (like 10% reduction of energy consumption)
- could create-net submit a BP regarding the "consolidation rule" modeling ?
- we should set priority for BP [144]
Open Discussion
- how to deal with integration tests in the future ?
- DevStack plugin is mostly done but having some keystone conf issues to work through. Should have up for review by end of week (tpeoples)

11/25/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- mid-cycle meetup details
- wiki page related to Watcher architecture v2 is live [145]
- WIP rule on reviews (using -1 on workflow if it is a work in progress)
Review Action Items
- Ceilometer integration : specs [146] / code [147] -> merged
- Loading optimization Strategies dynamically with Stevedore [148] -> merged
- Documentation :
  - a Glossary has been added to the Watcher documentation and MUST now be reviewed [149] before code refactoring
  - we will use Dia [150], the same tool as the Nova team, to update our current architecture diagrams
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- we should define series for Watcher on Launchpad (for blueprints deadline), should we use the current OpenStack versionning (Mitaka-N every 2 months) ?
- Intel should split this BP [151] before writing associated specs
- this BP [152] should probably be split for each Watcher component
- bcom has some refactoring to do [153] after merging the glossary so please review it asap [154]
- bcom will submit a BP to have a performance indicator associated with the action plan (like 10% reduction of energy consumption)
- could create-net submit a BP regarding the "consolidation rule" modeling ?
- we should set priority for BP [155]
Open Discussion

11/18/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- regular meeting started targeting a POC for thermal optimization using Watcher
- ad-hoc meeting with ICCLab and Create-Net on thursday
Review Action Items
- Developments for Ceilometer integration [156]
- Development for loading optimization Strategies dynamically with Stevedore [157]
- Specification for blueprint telemetry-integration has been written in watcher-specs and can be reviewed [158]
- Documentation :
  - a Glossary has been added to the Watcher documentation and is currently being reviewed [159]
  - writing some UML diagrams with an Ascii description : testing of the tool used in Nova, named Jia.
- Intel is working on the spec for the energy minimization PoC and it should be up for review soon.
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- New blueprint added with the following title : Add new actions in Watcher that can be used in Action Plan produced by a strategy.
Open Discussion

11/11/2015

Roll Call
- 11/11 is a day off in France so we will have a limited french team for today
Announcements
- ICCLab@ZHAW first participation - short intro
  - University Applied Research Lab focused on cloud computing, ~30 people, considering many different aspects energy, storage, networking, paas, serivce lifecycles, etc - http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/
  - Energy related activities mainly in Openstack context funded by EU project GEYSER - http://www.geyser-project.eu/
  - Have developed basic energy monitoring tool (kwapi based), deferred workload tool integrated with Horizon (working on more complex scheduler), rudimentary load consolidation mechanism
  - Strong open source philosophy; would be happy to work with others on this topic
Review Action Items
- watcher-specs is now ready
- devstack plugin for Watcher (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/devstack-plugin)
- mid-cycle meetup details
- bug triage
- enquiry to change the weekly meeting time
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/watcher-overload-underload
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/add-new-watcherclient-commands
- Watcher using ceilometer instead of the metering chain
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/nishi-ahuja-energy-efficienct-dc
Open Discussion
- Topic - ways of integration nova lb with watcher
  - https://goo.gl/NnW77j — overload
  - https://goo.gl/t7MhWP — suspend/unsuspend
  - https://goo.gl/13nJ9p — lb-rules

11/4/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
- Remark from ttx, do not use the name "OpenStack Watcher"
  - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-November/078136.html
Review Action Items
- Actions from Tokyo (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/watcher-tokyo-architecture-session)
  - @jwcroppe init watcher specs repo and add rights to core contrib
  - @tpeoples look into getting devstack plugin for watcher working
  - @acabot & @sballe schedule the mid-cycle meetup
  - @dtardivel move all current bugs to launchpad
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/240475/
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/nishi-ahuja-energy-efficienct-dc
Open Discussion
- Discuss use of ceilosca or ceilometer to collect metrics
- How to deal with diagram on wiki ? Should we host them in specs repo ?
- Integrating OpenStack Nova LoadBalancer into Watcher project (discussed at Tokyo Summit)

10/21/2015

Roll Call
Announcements
Review Action Items
- mailing intro on openstack-dev mailing list
  - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/077613.html
- Code migration from Stackforge
- create Watcher specs repo
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/233679/
- Watcher tools repo
  - https://github.com/b-com
- Tokyo Agenda
  - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Design_Summit/Mitaka/Etherpads
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
Open Discussion
- Discuss opnfv doctor

10/14/2015

Roll Call
- remember our meeting will take place on #openstack-meeting-3
Announcements
- recording everyday success
  - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/076552.html
Review Action Items
- write down the mailing intro for Watcher
  - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/watcher-mailing
- Tokyo Agenda
  - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Design_Summit/Mitaka/Etherpads
- create Watcher specs repo
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/233679/
Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion
Open Discussion

10/07/2015

review the talk proposal for Tokyo (still in standby mode) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gdb3PcC8KnKvs9PmblludTAqXmBI92t3zxTsX0BmPE0/edit?usp=sharing
Intel & IBM status on resources for Watcher
all blueprints wrote down on launchpad https://launchpad.net/watcher
Watcher wiki update
Weekly IRC meeting
- When do we want to have these meetings?
- tpeoples> sballe: if we want to keep 1500 UTC the only day that is available is Friday. There is a slot open for 1400 UTC on Tuesday, Wednesday. Slots open for Wednesday at 1600. i uploaded the ical into google calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1#main_7%7Cweek-2+23371+23377+23373
Mailing list creation
- Quick comment: OpenStack doesn;t run seperrate mailing lists. We should use the openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org mailing list with "[watcher]" in the subject.
Tokyo summit actions

09/30/2015

Announcements

Re: OpenStack Watcher repos: The Stackforge in this list: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Stackforge_Namespace_Retirement will be moved automatically to OpenStack repos. Watcher is on the list so we do not have to do anything.
- These changes are scheduled to occur on October 17, 2015.
review the OpenStack Watcher vision document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PAEK3eYi9Et2lpc6pT1JU2AoVSaivMmeHmj62qajqm8/edit#
review the current architecture https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-AEqDPAOaLva4N9PkBhvQ070SxhSFPiNnLiUFKiSJj0/edit#slide=id.gca3d12c11_2_52
review the actions list from our last workshop https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/watcher-workshop-rennes
- [sballe] Setup cadence for weekly meetings - work out an acceptable time for the group
- [acabot] Send out email to introducing Watcher to mailing lists (pre-requisites would be to have the wiki upadated, vision doc, etc.)
- [acabot] Clean up wiki document, including alignment with the Watcher vision document
- [sballe] Set up Git repositories on openstack.org
- [JeD56] Transfer code from existing StackForge repositories to Gerrit (after sballe gets the repositories configured)
- [jwcroppe] Create initial mission statement and vision doc and send out to team (jwcroppe: done - see "Watcher Vision Doc" in the "Key Links" section)
- [dtardivel] Add a link to the API generated doc in Watcher wiki
- [all] Write down blueprints in LaunchPad from the use cases list

Tokyo summit actions
- [jwcroppe, sballe, acabot] Prepare slides for Watcher talk (still in 'standby' mode)
- [sballe] Figure out a place where we can do an ad-hoc talk
- Talk to Nova, Ceilometer, etc. PTLs to inform them of the project
- [acabot, jwcroppe, sballe] Consider a Nova unconference session to introduce Watcher
- [sballe] Setup a meeting with Monty Taylor to introduce him to Watcher
- [sballe, acabot, jwcroppe] Evangelize Watcher with other folks (e.g., jaypipes, bauzas, Perry Myers from Red Hat, folks from Rackspace, Julien Danjou from Red Hat)

Brief progress reports

Open Discussion

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 * '''Announcements'''
 ** Our current milestone target is [https://launchpad.net/watcher/+milestone/pike-1 Pike-1] due April 10th
+** Open Discussions topic will be follow after Announcements every even weeks.
 ** There are [https://ethercalc.openstack.org/Boston_Forum_Hacking_Rooms two hacking rooms] for gathering.
+* '''Open discussions'''
 ** We should be prepared for onboarding rooms, where new contributors can come and we may teach them about the project, code, and give them an opportunity to meet established community members.
-TBD
+** adisky_ said that [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350974 rdo-package for python-watcherclient] will be prepared by number80 (Haïkel Guémar). We still need to find the ways to prepare watcher package.
+* '''Review Action Items'''
+** Watcher specs
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/398162/ Noisy Neighbor Strategy] has got algorithm description and now is ready to be reviewed
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377100/ Define grammar for workload characterization] Chris is waiting for Antoine's answer
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/427308/ Spec for noisy-neighbor-dashboard] Vincent should give some answers
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/448396/ Support workload fingerprinting] needs new PS
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/391374/ Audit tag in VM Metadata] needs final core review
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445817/ Add spec for services-versioned-notifications-api bp] needs new PS
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/448394/ Support visualizing workload fingerprints] needs reviews
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/450173/ Add spec for Cinder model integration] needs reviews
+** Watcher
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/425110/ Added Actuator Strategy] still needs to be taken by someone. Can Vladimir take it?
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/438800/ Added suspended audit state] needs reviews. Have some tested it yet?
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/443070/ Prevent the migration of VM with 'optimize' False in VM metadata] needs final core reviews
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/watcher+branch:master+topic:bp/gnocchi-watcher gnocchi support] topic should be reviewed
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/393355/ Added tempest test for workload_stabilization] needs to be tested by someone else
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/450720/ Add action description] needs reviews
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/449659/ Add Watcher JobStore for background jobs] needs reviews
+*** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/450740/ Run Watcher-API behind mod-wsgi] needs new PS
+* '''Blueprint/Bug Review and Discussion'''
+** [https://review.openstack.org/#/c/450555/ exception when running 'watcher audit start XXX'] needs unit tests to be added
+** [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/watcher/+spec/zone-migration-strategy Zone migration strategy] needs to have spec
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