August 2021 - openstack-discuss - lists.openstack.org

[election][cinder] PTL Candidacy for Yoga
by Brian Rosmaita 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hello everyone, I'd like to announce my candidacy for Cinder PTL for the Yoga cycle. The primary challenge we face in the Cinder community continues to be that our reviewing bandwidth has declined at the same time third-party driver contributions have not decreased. As I see it, the problem is that many vendors who maintain third-party drivers do not appear to be clear on the concept of community participation. (For what it's worth, I think this is more a manager problem than a developer problem, but the effect on Cinder is the same, namely, lots of request for reviews and not much doing of reviews. The Cinder documentation has information about how to review, how you don't need to be a core to do valuable reviews, etc., but it's not clear that many people have actually read them.) The Cinder community has tried to address this participation deficit in Xena by providing more upstream activities for contributors (for example, the monthly Festival of XS reviews [0] and the weekly Bug Squad meetings [1]), and these have had decent participation. In Yoga, I'd like to explore having some kind of Review Squad meeting to give people a chance to get "live" feedback on features under development. Some people do use the weekly Cinder meeting for this, but not everyone takes advantage of that, plus weekly meeting time is limited. I hate to propose yet another team meeting, but on the other hand, the bug squad and festival of reviews meetings are extremely productive, so I don't mind proposing another *productive* meeting. (We'll simply cancel it if it turns out that people don't take advantage. Also, I'm open to other ideas ... the key issue is providing faster feedback and more visibility for people developing cinder features, and allowing cinder cores to use their review time productively. So two key issues.) On the positive side, we did add a new cinder core during Xena and there's another person right on the verge of being proposed as a core. So that will help address review bandwidth, though I want to stress that non-core reviews are extremely important to the project as well. Our core reviewers also develop features and fix bugs--they are not full-time code reviewers. And the way to become a cinder core is to review widely in the project and demonstrate a good breadth of knowledge of the software. (As always, anyone currently working on cinder project who's interested becoming a cinder core, please contact me (or any of the current cores) to discuss what the expectations are.) Also on the good side is that we've done quite a bit of work on the Cinder CI this cycle. (I'm not going to tempt fate by saying anything more about that.) With respect to the details of Cinder development in Yoga, I expect those to emerge from our virtual PTG discussions in October. You can help set the agenda here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/yoga-ptg-cinder-planning To summarize, I would like to continue working on improving the review throughput of the Cinder team and find additional ways to get people more thoroughly involved in the project. Thanks for reading this far, and thank you for your consideration. Brian Rosmaita (rosmaita) [0] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Cinder_Festival_of_XS_Reviews [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Cinder_Bug_Squad_Meeting

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[election][requirements][ptl] PTL Candidacy for Yoga
by Matthew Thode 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of the Requirements project for the Yoga cycle. The following will be my goals for the cycle, in order of importance: 1. The primary goal is to keep a tight rein on global-requirements and upper-constraints updates. (Keep things working well) 2. Un-cap requirements where possible (stuff like prettytable). 3. Fix some automation of generate contstraints (pkg-resources being added and setuptools being dropped) 4. Audit global-requirements and upper-constraints for redundancies. One of the rules we have for new entrants to global-requirements and/or upper-constraints is that they be non-redundant. Keeping that rule in mind, audit the list of requirements for possible redundancies and if possible, reduce the number of requirements we manage. I look forward to continue working with you in this cycle, as your PTL or not. IRC: prometheanfire -- Matthew Thode

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[election][manila][ptl] PTL Candidacy for Yoga
by Goutham Pacha Ravi 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hello fellow zorillas and other interested stackers, I'm expressing interest to continue serving as PTL for the OpenStack Manila team through the Yoga cycle. I've used my great privilege in this role to affect the community in many small and significant ways over the past four cycles. It has been a smooth ride because of stellar contributors who're beyond motivated and enthusiastic to develop and maintain impactful software while having fun. The enthusiasm is bolstered by grit to be a team with a difference. We jump at the opportunity to help a user or mentor and welcome new contributors or back each other up and help get stuff done, regardless of the "barriers" of affiliation. I enjoy being the occasional enabler to this camaraderie. During the Xena cycle, we mentored two Outreachy interns and on-boarded several new contributors. We added sub team core maintainers in the manila-tempest-plugin project and a new core maintainer across the manila repos. We drove down bug backlogs through bug squash weeks, swarmed to work on the OpenStackClient with a hack-a-thon and crushed the goal to drive down tech debt. We kept the momentum on several multi-cycle efforts such as OpenStackSDK integration, Secure RBAC, Active/Active HA. The Yoga cycle will be critical in our efforts to drive some of these multi-cycle efforts to closure. So, if you will have me, I wish to serve you through the Yoga cycle and get things done. I would tell you it's going to be the best release ever; but I would hold out the distinction for the Zorilla cycle - yes that's what we'll name it, what other cool name will we have anyway :) Thank you for your support, Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi(a)gmail.com> IRC: gouthamr

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[infra][devstack][CI] pmlogger service fails to start
by Balazs Gibizer 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hi, Is there any work ongoing to figure out why devstack fails with? Job for pmlogger.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. We have 120 hits in the last 7 days. Recent example [1], logstash signature [2]. cheers, gibi [1] https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/a36289ff4fc34b18af70b5b29d38bdf4… [2] http://logstash.openstack.org/#dashboard/file/logstash.json?query=message%3…

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[storlets] Transition stable/stein and older branches to EOL
by Takashi Kajinami 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hi all, I recently noticed that our project still has many old stable branches, from Newton (!!). Because I've never seen any interests to backporting changes to very old branches, I'll propose transitioning stable/stein and older stable branches to EOL. If you have any concerns with that transition please let me know in the following gerrit review. https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/804562 Note that Newton and Ocata will be anywary marked as EOL now since these branches are globally marked as EOL, IIUC. Thank you, Takashi

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[ironic] Not running for PTL this cycle
by Julia Kreger 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Greetings everyone, I know I've repeatedly stated over the last few PTGs and midcycle sessions that I wouldn't be running this cycle, but I also realized this morning I had not sent an email. I've served as Ironic's PTL for 7 cycles, and after three and a half years, it is far past time to step down for at least a cycle. Serving the community has been a privilege and an honor, and I'm not planning on going anywhere, but a single person can only take on and handle so much stress. Changes in leadership are also a good thing as it can bring fresh perspective and voices into a project. I encourage Ironic contributors to consider if they would like to serve as the PTL, and to go ahead and submit their candidacy to the elections repository. The only thing I ask is we remain mindful of the needs of the community. I'll be there to help, to guide, and resolve conflicts if necessary. Much as Dmitry, Jim, and Aeva did before me. -Julia

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[election][storlets] PTL Candidacy for Yoga
by Takashi Kajinami 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

Hi All, I'd like to announce my candidacy to continue the PTL role for Storlets project in the Yoga cycle. After inactive recent cycles, we fortunately got some interest around the project again. So I'll propose the items below as our focus during the next cycle. - Keep compatibility with Swift. This is always top-priority - Merge some patches still open to achieve easier operation and improve resource efficiency Thank you for your consideration. Thank you, Takashi

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[horizon][dev] Auto-Refresh Feature Proposal
by Santos, Gustavo Faganello 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

Hello, everyone. I'm here to find out what you think about the addition of a feature in OpenStack Horizon. As you may know, Horizon requires the user to manually update the page in order to get the most recent data in the system, e.g. if an instance is created, deleted or renamed before the page is reloaded, the user has to hit the refresh button in their browser to see those changes in the page. This applies to the majority of Horizon's pages, including, but not limited to, Instances, Volumes, Users and so on. With that in mind, our team has implemented and tested a prototype of an auto-refresh feature for Horizon. We've been using it for a while now and have received positive feedback from our clients. It automatically updates the information in tables, pie charts (such as the Compute Overview page graphs) and details pages every five seconds, without the need for manually refreshing the page. The information displayed on the page will be replaced by the most recent data without any action from the user or any page reloading. It essentially works by requesting, in the background, the opened page again and again every few seconds through AJAX, and then replacing the old information with the new one if they differ. The feature affects every element in Horizon, except AngularJS ones - the tables in the Compute Images, Key Pairs and Server Groups pages are AngularJS elements and will not be affected by auto-refresh, for example. We are open to looking into this issue in the future, though. Could you please let us know if you would be open to adding such a feature to Horizon? If so, we'd be willing to do the upstream implementation in OpenStack, and we think it would be a great addition to the end users. Kind regards. Gustavo Santos

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[election][ironic] PTL Candidacy for Yoga
by Iury Gregory 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

Hello Stackers, I would like to nominate myself to serve as Ironic PTL for the Yoga cycle. I've been working with OpenStack since 2015 and contributing to ironic since Oct 2018 (Stein release). I hope that we as a community can continue to achieve goals together, let's not forget that our main objective is to take over the world and make operator's life easier! We should also aim to grow our contributor base and continue to spread the word about Ironic (blog posts, social media, etc). Features that I think we should aim for during the next cycle: Virtual Media visibility, Security Interface using Keylime. Best regards, -- *Att[]'sIury Gregory Melo Ferreira * *MSc in Computer Science at UFCG* *Part of the ironic-core and puppet-manager-core team in OpenStack* *Software Engineer at Red Hat Czech* *Social*: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iurygregory *E-mail: iurygregory(a)gmail.com <iurygregory(a)gmail.com>*

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No meeting tomorrow
by Gage Hugo 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

Hey team, Since there are no agenda items [0] for the IRC meeting tomorrow, the meeting is cancelled. Our next meeting will be Aug 31st. Thanks [0] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack-helm-weekly-meeting

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