March 2020 - openstack-discuss - lists.openstack.org

[election][manila] PTL candidacy for Victoria
by Goutham Pacha Ravi 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Greetings Zorillas & other Stackers, I would like to submit my candidacy to be the PTL of Manila for the Victoria cycle. I stepped up to this role for the Ussuri cycle and have had a tremendous learning experience. I achieved numerous things I set out to do with the support and encouragement of my fellow contributors. I'd like to continue in this role and drive the growth of this project and its community. In my role as the liaison for this community, I was able to effectively aid internalizing the "OpenStack way" of development. The project and its many deliverables saw several new contributors in the Ussuri cycle. This included successful Outreachy and Google Summer of Code interns who continue to contribute beyond the completion of their internships. We were able to prune the core maintainers group to active reviewers while mentoring and adding three new individuals. We also had a significant reduction in our bug backlog, while we continue to farm out issues for potential first time contributors. In the Victoria cycle, I plan to continue on this mission of growing the contributor base, and having Manila be a great on-boarding project for the OpenDev community. In the Ussuri cycle, thanks to our Outreachy interns, their mentors and the reviewers, we merged feature functionality to support the OpenStack Client. Similar velocity was achieved in the manila-csi project through the GSoC internship program and the continued investment beyond. We didn't get much merged in the Ussuri cycle in terms of improving the availability and fault tolerance of the core share-manager service. These multi-cycle work items will remain a matter of focus and I'd devote time to drive these further. The Ussuri cycle also saw reducing feature parity between the DHSS=True and DHSS=False driver modes. This was a goal for this community for several releases and it's coming to fruition through vendor-agnostic community driven design. In Victoria, we plan to continue down this patch and eliminate further feature gaps between many deployment and usability choices with Manila. As PTL, I will drive the community through the OpenStack-wide goals during the Victoria cycle, alongside some of our own: - Graduating experimental features: We have had significant soak time for all three features (Share Replication, Share Migration and Share Groups); and we have begun the steps to take them out of their experimental state. - Apply for the "vulnerability-managed" TC tag: As a community, we worked through our first CVE in Ussuri cycle with the aid and support from the OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team. In the Victoria cycle, we'll drive to achieve this TC tag for the project. - Evolve bug triage criteria, and automate it: Seeing an unmanageable number of bugs is a distraction enough to ignore the bug backlog. As a community we discussed the idea of automating some triage tasks on our backlog. - Address testing gaps: We'll continue to add new test case scenarios and address gaps such as the lack of scenario testing for the cephfs-native protocol. While this goal may not have a definition of done, it is here to convey my intention to prioritizing regression testing on par with feature development. So, if you will have me, I wish to serve through Victoria and get things done. Thank you for your support, Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi(a)gmail.com> IRC: gouthamr [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/716107/

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[all] Virtualized PTG Brainstorming Community Meetings
by Kendall Nelson 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello Everyone! So! After Marks initial email[1] that announced we would be virtualizing the PTG and collected volunteers[2] to help brainstorm the best way to hold the PTG virtually, we polled the volunteers for the best times to meet. In trying to be the most inclusive we have settled on three meetings to brainstorm together as a community. They are as follows: - April 2nd at 12:00 UTC - April 6th at 17:00 UTC - April 7th at 2:00 UTC We will be using my zoom[3] and continue using the same etherpad [2] that we collected volunteers in for all the notes from all three meetings. All are welcome! And if you can attend more than one meeting, please do! The more overlap we have the more cohesive discussions we will have. Hope to see you all there! -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2020-March/002854.html [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Virtual_PTG_Planning [3] https://zoom.us/my/diablorojo

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review.opendev.org Downtime March 20, 2020 at 1400UTC
by Clark Boylan 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello all, The OpenDev team is planning to take a short downtime March 20, 2020 from 14:00UTC to 15:00UTC. This outage will enable us to rename a few projects and redeploy Gerrit using containers. The container based deployment is an important first step in our longer term plan for upgrading Gerrit to a modern version. We recognize that this will be a disruption during an already disrupted week for many. We feel this is worthwhile as it fits into project release schedules and sets us up well for the future. Thank you for your patience. Feel free to ask us any questions you may have on this thread or in #opendev on Freenode. Clark

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[first contact][all] Meeting Frequency & Time
by Kendall Nelson 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello Everyone, In our meeting yesterday[1], the first one of the year, we discussed changing our meeting frequency to once a month and maybe shifting the day/time. I think Tuesday still works for me but an hour or two earlier wouldn't go amiss. If no-one objects to this, I will put a patch up to change the meeting time & frequency next week to monthly instead of biweekly and -Kendall (diablo_rojo) [1] Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/fc_sig/2020/fc_sig.2020-03-25-02.39… [2] Current Meeting Info: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#First_Contact_SIG_Meeting

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[ironic][ops] Breaking change coming in the Victoria development cycle
by Julia Kreger 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Greetings everyone, One of the items the ironic team has been focused on is improving security of remote/edge deployments where machines may be deployed on networks where an un-trusted actor could also be present. Our answer to this has been the concept of utilizing a temporary token[0] for the deployment, which we use to validate the agent heartbeat operations, and commands sent back to the agent ramdisk from the conductor. While not a complete solution to all possible attack vectors, it is a step forward and we will be taking more steps during the next cycle. For the Ussuri release, this functionality is always enabled, but is not explicitly required[1]. Deployments, with older ramdisks who choose to require this capability, must update their deployment/rescue/cleaning ramdisks to a version with a newer ironic-python-agent version from Ussuri development cycle. In Victoria, the ironic team will change the default for requirement of agent tokens such that they are required by default. Pre-Ussuri agent ramdisks will no longer work and will need to be updated. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. -Julia [0]: https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/agent-token.html [1]: https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/agent-token.html#how-it-works

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[elections][ironic] PTL candidacy for the Victoria cycle
by Julia Kreger 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Greetings my OpenStack family! I realize we are presently in a stressful time. That each of us are worrying, and that many of us are struggling. "Normalizing", and ultimately accepting the things we cannot control is a vital step forward in our personal and community growth. Finding a path forward is critical in this time. Not just as humans in a pandemic, but as also community members in a project. The vital aspect is continuous across both contexts: We cannot do it alone, We must work together! I too have strengths and weaknesses that I am all too well aware of, and there truly is nothing more re-assuring than those around you encouraging you to continue to support them. For we all need sturdy foundations to take the steps forward. To build the next layer! To continue the journey we are on. As such, I hereby announce my candidacy for the role of Project Team Leader for the Ironic project during the Victoria cycle. That is if you will have me. I foresee the upcoming cycle as a time when we will need to be there to support our community and users. This may take the form of advanced features, lending an occasional ear, or going that extra mile to help each other. And if we need a distraction, I believe we have have some difficult problems yet to solve which can have a major impact in not just our code, but the world at large. While not an exhaustive list of items, it is still an impactful list of work we have been discussing and seek to add into Ironic moving forward. * Multi-tenancy, while underway, opens the world to new possibilities and co-ordination of hardware resources with-in an organization or even across organisations. * Persistent Agents allowing for faster re-provision of deployments on the edge and where the networking is in a fixed configuration. * TLS for Agent Communication to help ensure the nodes on the edge remain secure. * kexec could potentially save significant amounts of time between steps of deployment, and enable operators with larger memory footprints to save precious time of a Power-on-Self-Test. * Attestation system integration so we can improve the odds of identifying a machine with modified firmware and prevent it from moving through the hardware life-cycle as a result. * Enhancement of power management, so operators can avoid having to wait for the Power-on-Self-Test, and maybe even power some of those machines off. Onward, together! For I'm fairly sure we've not completely taken over the world... yet. Julia (TheJulia) Kreger

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[ptl][tripleo][election]
by Wesley Hayutin 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Greetings, I would like to propose my candidacy for the TripleO PTL role in the Victoria cycle. This cycle there has been a lot of progress in simplifying the TripleO code base and the steps in the deployment. The team should be very proud about migrating from mistral to ansible, novaless deployment, the creation of tripleo-operator-ansible, removing paunch, and container improvements. We were also able to migrate Ussuri jobs from CentOS-7 to CentOS-8 in the nick of time. Like in the Ussuri cycle I would like to see the project continue to focus on simplification and improving the user experience. * Continue to push forward with tripleo-ansible and the transformation squad. * Work with ansible sig group, kolla, openstack-ansible, tempest and related projects. * Continue to simplify the stack of components where possible to achieve a faster, better and more efficient deployment. * Mature new features like tripleo-operator-ansible. * I would also like to focus on encouraging the project's more recent contributors to take a larger role in active collaboration, participation and leadership. Thank you for the opportunity! https://review.opendev.org/716077

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[oslo] Feature Freeze exception request
by Alan Bishop 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

I'd like to request an exception for https://review.opendev.org/710539. CI is fully green now, it has one +2, and an early patch set had +2 from another reviewer. Thanks for your consideration, Alan Bishop (abishop)

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[tc][elections] my nomination
by Jeremy Freudberg 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello everyone, I hereby announce my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical Committee. If you don't know me already I'm the guy who proposed that OpenStack releases be named after ATCs[0]. Some people thought my proposal was satire, but it wasn't, so if you're hoping to elect a satirist look elsewhere. However, this incident is part of my motivation to run for the TC. We can't have satire without culture, and clearly our community has a strong culture if we suspect, and even hope, that satirists are lurking about. All of this indicates to me that OpenStack is a special place and so I would like to play a role in the success of that special place by serving on the TC. "Immensely qualified" is the opposite of what I am, but I have some strengths: * I am nosy. * I have touched a lot of areas of OpenStack because Sahara touches a lot of areas of OpenStack. * I understand the struggles of working on a minor project (tiny team and limited audience but still big goals) because Sahara is a minor project. * I am an optimist because optimism is a necessary part of being the PTL of Sahara nowadays. * I am young. I have much to learn, and luckily I love learning. I don't have many specific goals other than making our community as vibrant as possible. Out of vibrancy, good software will hopefully come naturally, in order to make OpenStack the best it can be in the current landscape. For me being a TC member would be mostly about facilitating the exchange and synthesis of ideas (perhaps crazy ones) and not so much about being a source of ideas myself. Of course, if I happen to have a good idea (they tend to strike very suddenly), I'll share it! To close, thanks to all of you for making our community what it is. It is really something special and everyone who I have ever interacted with (or merely spied on) has been such a delight in their own unique way. It would be an honor to serve you all. -Jeremy [0] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/677827/

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[election][plt] Sean McGinnis candidacy for Release Management PTL
by Sean McGinnis 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello everyone, I'd like to run for PTL of the Release Management team again. We have a lot of great automation in place in the releases repo to handle a lot of the release process with, hopefully, minimal overhead. That said, we've made some process changes over the last couple of release cycles that have placed a little more work on the release team's shoulders. We have a lot of these processes mostly automated, but a few things that require a little history and trival knowledge yet. Over the next release cycle I would like to work towards automating a little more of that to make sure if/when anyone else steps into a release manager role, it will be an easy introduction to them to follow our release process documentation and have tooling in place to execute each step without needing to have a very deep understanding of how all the various pieces fit together. Like other projects, we've lost some people, or some of us are not able to spend as much time as we used to on the project. But we've also picked up some great help too. Anything we can do to help anyone to join the team and know what to do and how to do it will be better for us all. Thanks for your consideration! Sean

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