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On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:03 AM Rajat Dhasmana <rdhasman at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to nominate myself to be Cinder PTL during the 2023.2 (Bobcat)
> cycle.
>
> I have been serving as the PTL for the last two cycles i.e. Zed and 2023.1
> (Antelope) and there were a lot of key areas which we were able to improve
> as follows:
>
> ** Review bandwidth and quality:* Cinder's policy of "Do reviews to get
> reviews"
> has helped improve the review bandwidth and we have seen more participation
> and activity in code reviews.
> We have also added efficient review guidelines[1] to help new contributors
> onboard to the review process quickly and help them do quality reviews.
>
> ** cinderclient to openstackclient migration:* We are working towards
> reducing
> the parity between cinderclient and openstackclient and the effort can be
> tracked with this topic[2]. Currently we have proposed all the commands
> that
> were missing in openstackclient.
>
> ** Third party CI to report on os-brick changes: *The third party vendor
> CI's
> used to report only on cinder gate and not on os-brick gate which means
> their
> driver wasn't tested with the connector and they could only see issues when
> the os-brick release happens. Unfortunately, the driver merge deadline is
> milestone-2 and os-brick (non-client library) release is 1 week before
> feature
> freeze so it doesn't give enough time for driver maintainers to fix the
> issues.
> Reporting the CI on os-brick gate helps identify issues earlier and fix
> them
> timely.
>
> ** Security Vulnerabilities:* We went through the open security issues in
> Zed
> and triaged their priority and importance.
> A new security issue was reported in 2023.1 regarding VMDK file format for
> which a CVE has been filed, CVE-2022-47951 [3]. We have addressed the issue
> and releases were done for the actively maintained stable branches
> i.e. Zed[1], Yoga[2] and Xena[3].
>
> Apart from that, we were able to handle deadlines better by managing and
> prioritizing work based on the milestones.
>
> Following are the plans for the 2023.2 cycle:
>
> * our first target will be to move away from adding additional commands to
> cinderclient and only rely on openstackclient for the CLI interface. Also
> we
> will explore openstacksdk to add support for cinder commands so we can
> break
> the dependency on the python bindings that exist in cinderclient.
>
> * Another thing to address is adding the service role after the keystone
> implements it[7].
>
> * Third party drivers are the core of cinder that allows cinder to what the
> end users desire i.e. to interface between users and storage backends.
> We will focus to improve the experience of driver vendors to implement new
> drivers by improving our driver documentation and test stability by doing a
> 3rd party CI compliance check.
> We have been making progress in this area but more efforts are required
> that
> we will target for the next cycle.
>
> Finally will try to continue all the good things we have started that
> keeps the
> project healthy and active and also address new gaps discovered along the
> way.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/contributor/gerrit.html#efficient-review-guidelines
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:add-missing-cinderclient-commands
> [3] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-47951
> [4] https://pypi.org/project/cinder/21.1.0
> [5] https://pypi.org/project/cinder/20.1.0
> [6] https://pypi.org/project/cinder/19.2.0
> [7] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/keystone/+/863420
>
> -
> Rajat Dhasmana
>


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