August 2019 - openstack-discuss - lists.openstack.org

[tc][elections] Not running for reelection to TC this term
by Jeremy Stanley 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

I've been on the OpenStack Technical Committee continuously for several years, and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the community for their support and for the honor of being chosen to represent you. I plan to continue participating in the community, including in TC-led activities, but am stepping back from reelection this round for a couple of reasons. First, I want to provide others with an opportunity to serve our community on the TC. I hope that by standing aside for now, others will be encouraged to run. A regular influx of fresh opinions helps us maintain the requisite level of diversity to engage in productive debate. Second, the scheduling circumstances for this election, with the TC and PTL activities combined, will be a bit more complicated for our election officials. I'd prefer to stay engaged in officiating so that we can ensure it goes as smoothly for everyone a possible. To do this without risking a conflict of interest, I need to not be running for office. It's quite possible I'll run again in 6 months, but for now I'm planning to help behind the scenes instead. Best of luck to all who decide to run for election to any of our leadership roles! -- Jeremy Stanley

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not running for the TC this term
by Doug Hellmann 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Since nominations open this week, I wanted to go ahead and let you all know that I will not be seeking re-election to the Technical Committee this term. My role within Red Hat has been changing over the last year, and while I am still working on projects related to OpenStack it is no longer my sole focus. I will still be around, but it is better for me to make room on the TC for someone with more time to devote to it. It’s hard to believe it has been 6 years since I first joined the Technical Committee. So much has happened in our community in that time, and I want to thank all of you for the trust you have placed in me through it all. It has been an honor to serve and help build the community. Thank you, Doug

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[oslo] Proposing Gabriele Santomaggio as oslo.messaging core
by Ben Nemec 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

Hello Norsk, It is my pleasure to propose Gabriele Santomaggio (gsantomaggio) as a new member of the oslo.messaging core team. He has been contributing to the project for about a cycle now and has gotten up to speed on our development practices. Oh, and he wrote the book on RabbitMQ[0]. :-) Obviously we think he'd make a good addition to the core team. If there are no objections, I'll make that happen in a week. Thanks. -Ben 0: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781849516501.do

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[ptl][cinder] U Cycle PTL Non-Candidacy ...
by Jay Bryant 02 Sep '19

02 Sep '19

All, I just wanted to communicate that I am not going to be running for another term as Cinder's PTL. It has been an honor to lead the Cinder team for the last two years. When I started working with OpenStack nearly 6 years ago, leading the Cinder team was one of my goals and I appreciate the team trusting me with this responsibility for the last 4 cycles. I have enjoyed watching the project evolve over the last couple of years, going from a focus on getting new features in place to a focus on ensuring that customers get reliable storage management with an ever improving user experience. Cinder's value in the storage community outside of OpenStack has been validated as other SDS solutions have leveraged it to provide storage management for the many vendors that Cinder supports. Cinder continues to grow by adding things like cinderlib, making it relevant not only in virtualized environments but also for containerized environments. I am glad that I have been able to help this evolution happen. As PTLs have done in the past, it is time for me to pursue other opportunities in the OpenStack ecosystem and hand over the reigns to a new leader. Cinder has a great team and will continue to do great things. Fear not, I am not going to go anywhere, I plan to continue to stay active in Cinder for the foreseeable future. Again, thank you for the opportunity to be Cinder's PTL, it has been a great ride! Sincerely, Jay Bryant (irc: jungleboyj)

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[nova] Status of the bp support-move-ops-with-qos-ports
by Balázs Gibizer 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Hi, As feature freeze is closing in I try to raise awareness of the implementation status of the support-move-ops-with-qos-ports<https://review.opendev.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:ma…> bp [1]. The original goal of the bp was to support every move operations (cold migrate, resize, live-migrate, evacuate, unshelve). Today I have ready and tested (unit + functional) patches proposed for cold migrate and resize [2]. I don't think every move operations will be ready and merged in Train but I still hope that there is a chance for cold migrate and resize to land. Sure I will continue working on supporting the operations that miss the Train in the U release. One possible complication in the current patch series is that it proposes the necessary RPC changes for _every_ move operations [3]. This might not be what we want to merge in Train if only cold migrate and resize support fill fit. So I see two possible way forwards: a) Others also feel that cold migrate and resize will fit into Train, and then I will quickly change [3] to only modify those RPCs. b) We agree to postpone the whole series to U. Then I will not spend too much time on reworking [3] in the Train timeframe. A connected topic: I proposed patches [4] to add cold migrate and resize tempest coverage to the nova-grenade-multinode (renamed from nova-grenade-live-migrate) job as Matt pointed out in [3] that we don't have such coverage and that my original change in [3] would have broken a mixed-compute-version deployment. Any feedback is appreciated. Cheers, gibi [1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/train/approved/suppo… [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:bp/support-move-ops-with-qos-ports [3] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/655721 [4] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/679210

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[neutron][qa] Databases used on CI jobs
by Slawek Kaplonski 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Hi, Recently in Neutron we merged patch [1] which caused error in Kolla-ansible [2]. It seems that issue happens on mariadb 10.1 which is used in broken Kolla-ansible job so I started checking what database is used on Neutron’s jobs as we didn’t found any issue with this patch. And it seems that in all scenario/api jobs we have installed mysql 5.7 - see [3] for example. And the question is - should we maybe switch somehow to Mariadb instead of Mysql? Should it be done globally or maybe it’s only “issue” in Neutron’s CI jobs? Or maybe we should have jobs with both Mariadb and Mysql databases? [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/677221 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla-ansible/+bug/1841907 [3] https://2f275f27875ae066d2b6-00a9605a715176e6bd23401c23e881d7.ssl.cf2.rackc… — Slawek Kaplonski Senior software engineer Red Hat

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[qa][ptl][election] Quality Assurance PTL Candidacy for Ussuri
by Ghanshyam Mann 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Hi Everyone, I would like to announce my candidacy for Quality Assurance PTL role for Ussuri cycle. It was a great experience while serving QA PTL for the last three cycles. With very few active contributions, I am proud on the team to keep the QA tooling up and maintained. Making sure no gate break and keep the OpenStack stability as a priority. In Train Cycle, we concentrate on a few key things like improving the gate stability which was tried with breaking the integrate-gate project template into project-specific template[1]. Migrating all the OpenStack CI/CD from Xenial to Bionic etc. We have few more planned work still pending for Train like keystone's system scope testing, making sanity job voting, documenting the QA process etc but I think we will be able to make it in Train as we still have around a month to release Train. Along with daily QA activities, my priority for QA in the next cycle will be: - Release Patrole stable version and find out the way to make it faster so that it can test the API policy on project gate also. - New ideas for more tooling or tests project to focus on OpenStack or Common communities. - Finish the grenade job to zuulv3 which is not yet merged. - Stability of Tempest plugins. There are many tempest plugins which are not so stable. We will plan audit activities for all plugins. I know using Tempest service registry and setting service_availabilty properly is the key things to do on the Plugins side. - Finish the JSON strict validation for volume services. Zhufl has lot of patches to review on this. This will be on priority to finish in the next cycle. - Guiding and motivating more contributors to QA projects. Thanks for reading and consideration my candidacy for Ussuri cycle. [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-July/007568.html -gmann

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[all][tc] Hear ye! Hear ye! Our Newest Release Name - OpenStack Ussuri
by Rico Lin 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Dear all OpenStackers It's my honor to announce OpenStack U release name "*Ussuri" *(naming after Ussuri River). Ussuri has been selected as top one option from community poll and also been lawyer-approved, so it's official. Thanks again for all who join the U release naming processes. -- May The Force of OpenStack Be With You, *Rico Lin*irc: ricolin

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[security] Weekly Newsletter - 29 Aug 2019
by Gage Hugo 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Last two weeks had no meeting activity, however this week we had plenty, so here's the summary. Hope everyone has a great weekend! #Date: 29 Aug 2019 - Security SIG Meeting Info: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Security_SIG_meeting - Weekly on Thursday at 1500 UTC in #openstack-meeting - Agenda: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/security-agenda - https://security.openstack.org/ - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security-SIG #Meeting Notes - Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/security/2019/security.2019-08-29-1… - OSSA-2019-004 was released this week, more details here: https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2019-004.html - The VMT is currently in the process of updating the requirements for a project to obtain the "vulnerability:managed tag, there is a current change in progress here:https://review.opendev.org/#/c/678426/ - The main goal is to reduce the barrier of entry by not explicitly requiring an audit being performed on the project (but still recommending it), as well as clarifications on other guidelines - The security docs are continuing to see updates: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/project:openstack/security-doc - Shoutout to nickthetait for taking on this work, and to those reviewing it as well! - We discussed the default policy file discrepencies in Cinder/Nova in the Queens release, it appears that several projects have different file defaults for policy. - This is causing issues when a policy file works fine in one release, but after upgrading, the file is no longer automatically detected. - One path forward is to open a security docs bug to track these and look for a way to resolve this. #VMT Reports - A full list of publicly marked security issues can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/ - OSSA-2019-004 was released this week, more details here: https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2019-004.html

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[cinder] PTL candidacy
by Brian Rosmaita 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Hello everyone, I would like to announce my candidacy for Cinder PTL for the 'U' cycle. The Cinder project is in a good state right now due to Jay Bryant's leadership and a strong community of developers interested in keeping Cinder stable and relevant. The project has matured (which is a good thing): a look at the cinder-specs repository shows an interest in adding some features, but there's also a large focus on enhancing existing features and introducing improvements to make the software more reliable. And the project's relevance has been continued by the introduction of the cinderlib library that makes Cinder backend drivers usable for applications beyond OpenStack, for example, by the Ember CSI plugin for containers. The Cinder project also faces some challenges. Like all the major OpenStack projects, over the past several cycles it has been showing a decline in the number of contributors and in the diversity of their affiliations. Further, we had a big scare this cycle when it looked like about half of the backend drivers would have to be marked unsupported due to vendors not updating their third-party CI systems to Python 3. (As we approach milestone 3, happily, the situation is looking better.) Much as I'd like to say that as Cinder PTL, my scintillating personality will reverse this trend, the reality is that the days of companies renting out an entire museum in San Diego or Paris to entertain OpenStack contributors are well behind us. (Plus, I don't have a scintillating personality.) The positive way to look at this is that our community has contracted to a hard core of sufficient density as the effluvium is ejected, and we've reached a kind of steady state. Thus I think the main task I would need to undertake as PTL is to focus on nurturing the community we have. This isn't to say that we won't continue to do onboarding and outreach (we will), it's just that the days when an OpenStack project could design features and people would just show up and work on them are in the past. So we need to make sure that the current Cinder community--both developers working on the main project and developers working on vendor drivers--feel well-connected and valued. (This isn't to say they don't feel that way now; my point is that this is important to maintain.) Concrete steps toward this goal are continuing Jay's good work in keeping the Cinder community well-informed of the discussions at weekly meetings, Forum sessions, the PTG, and midcycle, and taking advantage of video meeting software so we can have more (virtual) face-to-face meetings. All this is sounds reasonable enough, but why me? I'm a fairly new member of the Cinder community. I've been a Cinder core contributor since April and have been helping with stable maintenance and releases. I've had some experience as an OpenStack PTL (Glance PTL for O, P, and Q), so I know what I'm getting into. I'm an active participant in the Cinder community, and if you'll have me as PTL, I promise to do my best not to break anything. Thank you for your consideration, Brian Rosmaita (rosmaita)

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