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If the topics below interest you and you want to contribute to the 
discussion, feel free to join the next meeting:

Time: Thursdays, 14:30-15:30 UTC
Place: https://bluejeans.com/4113567798/

Full minutes: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tripleo-ci-squad-meeting

We had a meeting full of intense discussion last Thursday. Here's the 
summary.

= Promotion jobs and HTTP caching =

The first part of it was centered around trying to improve and mostly 
speed up the promotion process for TripleO, which is an ongoing 
discussion for the last few weeks.

Image building takes a long time (~30 minutes) for each promotion job, 
which we can be spared by having a separate job build the images. This 
would result in fewer job timeouts. Zuul v3 will be able to handle these 
kind of job dependencies directly, but meanwhile we can probably work 
around it. Our contact on this work is pabelanger.

A lot of other outside queries can be probably sped up by having an 
infra-wide caching proxy. This might be an Apache server with mod_proxy 
for the short term, and AFS mirror in the long term. This will speed up 
image downloads and docker registry downloads as well, speeding up our jobs.

= Quickstart transition update =

The big OVB change from last week got merged, now we're checking the 
stability of those jobs before proceeding with the transition. We'll 
want to have more extensive testing before we move the voting jobs over, 
so probably we'll create parallel non-voting jobs this time 
(ha/non-ha/updates + gate job), not just testing through pending 
tripleo-ci changes.



We will probably combine the former ha and nonha OVB jobs to save 
resources on rh1. Relevant change and discussion here[1].

We also briefly talked and discussed how to involve and bring up to 
speed more people for reviewing Quickstart changes. There will be a deep 
dive session on the subject given by one of the current cores probably.

Best regards,
Attila

[1] https://review.openstack.org/449785