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On 5/6/2016 1:37 PM, Nikhil Komawar wrote:
> Thanks for sending this out Matt. I added a inline comment here.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Matt Riedemann
> <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>     There are still a few design summit sessions from the summit that
>     I'll recap but I wanted to get the priorities session recap out as
>     early as possible. We held that session in the last slot on
>     Thursday. The full etherpad is here [1].
>
>     The first part of the session was mostly going over schedule milestones.
>
>     We already started Newton with a freeze on spec approvals for new
>     things since we already have a sizable backlog [2]. Now that we're
>     past the summit we can approve specs for new things again.
>
>     The full Newton release schedule for Nova is in this wiki [3].
>
>     These are the major dates from here on out:
>
>     * June 2: newton-1, non-priority spec approval freeze
>     * June 30: non-priority feature freeze
>     * July 15: newton-2
>     * July 19-21: Nova Midcycle
>     * Aug 4: priority spec approval freeze
>     * Sept 2: newton-3, final python-novaclient release, FeatureFreeze,
>     Soft StringFreeze
>     * Sept 16: RC1 and Hard StringFreeze
>     * Oct 7, 2016: Newton Release
>
>     The important thing for most people right now is we have exactly
>     four weeks until the non-priority spec approval freeze. We then have
>     about one month after that to land all non-priority blueprints.
>
>     Keep in mind that we've already got 52 approved blueprints and most
>     of those were re-approved from Mitaka, so have been approved for
>     several weeks already.
>
>     The non-priority blueprint cycle is intentionally restricted in
>     Newton because of all of the backlog work we've had spilling over
>     into this release. We really need to focus on getting as much of
>     that done as possible before taking on more new work.
>
>     For the rest of the priorities session we talked about what our
>     actual review priorities are for Newton. The list with details and
>     owners is already available here [4].
>
>     In no particular order, these are the review priorities:
>
>     * Cells v2
>     * Scheduler
>     * API Improvements
>     * os-vif integration
>     * libvirt storage pools (for live migration)
>     * Get Me a Network
>     * Glance v2 Integration
>
>
> I saw the priorities review ( https://review.openstack.org/#/c/312217/ )
> has been merged so wanted to point that out here. I know Nova team cares
> about history section of the specs so the dates are more clear from the
> links posted on the comment. To be more explicit: Glance v2 work
> (BP+code) was initially proposed in Icehouse, the co-located mid-cycle
> was in Kilo where we had a brief session on Glance v2 work (& thanks to
> all the Nova members who have been giving their input). Also, the reason
> for my comments/questions in the etherpad.
>
>
>
>     We *should* be able to knock out glance v2, get-me-a-network and
>     os-vif relatively soon (I'm thinking sometime in June).
>
>     Not listed in [4] but something we talked about was volume
>     multi-attach with Cinder. We said this was going to be a 'stretch
>     goal' contingent on making decent progress on that item by
>     non-priority feature freeze *and* we get the above three smaller
>     priority items completed.
>
>     Another thing we talked about but isn't going to be a priority is
>     NFV-related work. We talked about cleaning up technical debt and
>     additional testing for NFV but had no one in the session signed up
>     to own that work or with concrete proposals on how to make
>     improvements in that area. Since we can't assign review priorities
>     to something that nebulous it was left out. Having said that, Moshe
>     Levi has volunteered to restart and lead the SR-IOV/PCI bi-weekly
>     meeting [5] (thanks again, Moshe!). So if you (or your employer, or
>     your vendor) are interested in working on NFV in Nova please attend
>     that meeting and get involved in helping out that subteam.
>
>     [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-nova-summit-priorities
>     [2]
>     http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/090370.html
>     [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/Newton_Release_Schedule
>     [4]
>     https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/priorities/newton-priorities.html
>     [5]
>     http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-April/093541.html
>
>     --
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Matt Riedemann
>
>
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Icehouse predates time. :)

Thanks for the clarification.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann