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Minutes: oVirt Weekly Sync (Open Format)
by Brian Proffitt 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.log.html ======================================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync (Open Format) ======================================= Meeting started by bkp at 14:02:19 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda (bkp, 14:04:08) * 3.5 news (bkp, 14:04:33) * 3.6 news/discussion (bkp, 14:04:45) * Open Discussion (bkp, 14:04:55) * 3.5 news/discussion (bkp, 14:06:35) * 3.5 general status email: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010315.html (bkp, 14:12:58) * 3.5.2 looks good for April 28 (bkp, 14:13:01) * 3.5.2, only one bug in QA (bkp, 14:13:03) * sbonazzo needs maintainers to review the package list he sent on RC4 release, to be sure that listed packages correspond to the ones maintainers want to release (bkp, 14:13:07) * 3.6 news/discussion (bkp, 14:13:29) * Brief general status for 3.6 here: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010310.html (bkp, 14:28:29) * el6 repo broken by the removal of vdsm, infra and node (fabiand) must address in the next couple of days (bkp, 14:28:32) * Node needs to be dropped on el6, which, according to sbonazzo some related job is still building RPMs for el6 (bkp, 14:28:35) * Today (22.4.15) is feature submission deadline for 3.6 (bkp, 14:28:38) * Submitted features need to be reviewed. (bkp, 14:28:40) * An alpha release of 3.6 is scheduled for May 6 (bkp, 14:28:43) * Open Discussion (bkp, 14:28:44) * Inquiry about jdk 1.8 / wildfly support for dev infra, no initial response. Using jdk 1.7 as a fallback is not optimal, sbonazzo reports (bkp, 14:28:46) * Node is building nicely and the team is cleaning up and preparing for 3.6, fabiand reports (bkp, 14:28:49) * On the issue of server hardening, dcaro reports that we are waiting for the sec team to finish the checks and give more feedback on best practices (bkp, 14:53:45) * bkp suggests that office hours be held for set half-hour periods, moderated by a rotation of community members. Format should be open, answering all questions and discussing any cross-team/community-wide issues as needed. Twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. (bkp, 14:53:48) * ACTION: bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format (bkp, 14:53:52) Meeting ended at 14:54:10 UTC. Action Items ------------ * bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format Action Items, by person ----------------------- * bkp * bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (73) * sbonazzo (56) * dcaro (14) * fabiand (7) * mr_chris (4) * ovirtbot (2) * awels (1) * misc (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Sync - 2015-04-15
by Sandro Bonazzola 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by sbonazzo at 14:01:45 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.log.html . Meeting ended Wed Apr 15 14:59:06 2015 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v 0.1.4) Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.log.html Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and Roll Call (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * infra_ownr|dcaro: Security incident status (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * bkp: conferences and workshops (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * ydary: Sync future and format change (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * sbonazzo: Outages in Jenkins due to no space left on master (sbonazzo, 14:01:46) * sbonazzo: Blockers review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:01:46) * sbonazzo: Packages review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:01:48) * sbonazzo: Next week is feature submission deadline: plans for reviewing submitted features (sbonazzo, 14:01:48) * sbonazzo: Support for JDK 1.8 / Wildfly progress updates / Contingency plan of building Java7 rpms for Fedora 22. (sbonazzo, 14:01:50) * SvenKieske: review Bug 1156115 - [RFE] don't use dd to copy sparse images in order to save time and bandwith from exportdomain (sbonazzo, 14:01:50) * Security incident status (sbonazzo, 14:03:46) * We did got hacked, a couple of files where uploaded but no privilege escalation. (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * oVirt infra solved the issue though they are still scanning for more security and planning to highly improve the security asap (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * ACTION: oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * conferences and workshops (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * the most important thing is yet-another request for help at Grazer Linux Days in Graz, Austria this weekend (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * Rene Koch is seeking backup help manning the booth at that event (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * LINK: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032251.html (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * All other event and conference news is the same as two weeks ago. (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * LINK: http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02… (sbonazzo, 14:07:42) * Sync future and format change (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * bkp sent some thoughts to mailing list (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * LINK: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032389.html (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * LINK: previous meeting logs: http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09… (sbonazzo, 14:10:21) * AGREED: on a series of "office hours," where a rotating set of oVirt team members will commit to being on IRC to answer questions and be generally available. This could be done by one or two people, a few times a week/once a week, and not even a whole hour. Once a schedule is figured out, it would be posted and people would be openly encouraged to participate. This would be an open session on IRC... support questions, c (sbonazzo, 14:17:34) * AGREED: on carrying over to the mailing list topics that need to be covered there because the volounteer doesn't have the answers (sbonazzo, 14:18:35) * Outages in Jenkins due to no space left on master (sbonazzo, 14:20:11) * we had several issues in last few days with jenkins master going out of space (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * solution is to limit job history to ~100 tops (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * ACTION: jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * Blockers review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:25:31) * LINK: oVirt 3.5.z status: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010261.html (sbonazzo, 14:25:51) * Storage updates (sbonazzo, 14:32:01) * Ceph integration - We gave QE a scratch build and it underwent first pre-integration, we got feedbacks from them, some are irrelevant anymore since more work has been done after the scratch build given to them and some was relevant and we are working on it (sbonazzo, 14:32:14) * SPM removal - nothing new from last week, work is still in progress (sbonazzo, 14:32:22) * Resize LUN - We had our first meeting with QE, no feedbacks from them yet (sbonazzo, 14:32:33) * the rest of the RFEs there's nothing to report for now, work is in progress (sbonazzo, 14:32:41) * Packages review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:34:55) * LINK: candidates to 3.5.2 GA: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010259.html (sbonazzo, 14:35:35) * qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-86 is best candidate for 3.5.2 GA due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209034 related to qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23 (sbonazzo, 14:37:24) * ACTION: maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there (sbonazzo, 14:37:53) * Support for JDK 1.8 / Wildfly progress updates / Contingency plan of building Java7 rpms for Fedora 22. (sbonazzo, 14:38:28) * infra update: Proceeding well with 3.6 items, fence refactoring is almost done, VDSM events work is in progress, host upgrade manager is progressing well both in the host and engine side, and more. We will also start looking at Jboss-widlfly support in a few days, and see how we can proceed with supporting it. (sbonazzo, 14:38:51) * ACTION: infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 (sbonazzo, 14:39:48) * ACTION: integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work (sbonazzo, 14:40:24) * SvenKieske: review Bug 1156115 - [RFE] don't use dd to copy sparse images in order to save time and bandwith from exportdomain (sbonazzo, 14:40:47) * Next week is feature submission deadline: plans for reviewing submitted features (sbonazzo, 14:41:45) * LINK: features spreadsheet: http://goo.gl/9X3G49 (sbonazzo, 14:47:46) * features without a feature page will take the bugzilla page as feature page to be reviewed (sbonazzo, 14:48:35) * Usually such features wouldn't need e.g. a contingency plan and test cases will be relatively obvious. (sbonazzo, 14:48:52) * ACTION: features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed (sbonazzo, 14:49:26) * submission deadline is April 22th (sbonazzo, 14:50:07) * ACTION: follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) (sbonazzo, 14:54:15) * Other topics (sbonazzo, 14:54:25) Meeting ended at 14:59:06 UTC. Action Items ------------ * oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap * jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed * maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there * infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 * integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work * features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed * follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap * jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed * maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there * infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 * integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work * features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed * follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * sbonazzo (130) * lvernia (31) * ovirtbot (17) * tal (11) * SvenKieske (7) * infra_ownr|dcaro (6) * fromani (3) * alitke (2) * Mossel (1) * danken (1) * apuimedo (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2015-04-08.
by Yaniv Dary 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.log.html ========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by ydary_ at 14:09:19 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and roll Call (ydary_, 14:09:20) * Sync future and format change (ydary_, 14:09:45) * Sync future and format change (ydary_, 14:09:57) * No final call. Moving discussion to mailing list. See full log for details. (ydary_, 15:01:30) * ACTION: Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html (ydary_, 15:05:32) Meeting ended at 15:05:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * ydary_ (30) * bkp (28) * misc (19) * lvernia (14) * sbonazzo (8) * ovirtbot (3) * dyasny (2) * SvenKieske (2) * dcaro (2) * amureini (2) * dkuznets (1) * eedri (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Yaniv Dary Technical Product Manager Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 8272306 Email: ydary(a)redhat.com IRC : ydary

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oVirt Community Newsletter: April 2015
by Brian Proffitt 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

April is here, and residents of the Eastern Seaboard in the US are feeling a rising hope that Winter is finally on its way out. In the oVirt community, work on oVirt 3.6 is ramping up, even as more people in the virtualization sector are talking us up. -------------------------------- Software Milestones and Features -------------------------------- Take a look at the upcoming Cinder/Ceph feature in in oVort 3.6! http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cinder_Integration It was no April Fool's joke--oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 was released and is ready to test! http://t.co/fZhSQhadZV Arch Linux now has the ovirt-guest-agent available https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ovirt-guest-agent/ ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Two Hypervisors, One Great Collaboration http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/two-hypervisors-one-great-collabor… CeBIT 2015 retrospective http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/113959092885/cebit-2015-retrospective VDI Lives On with Help from oVirt http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/vdi-lives-on-with-help-from-ovirt/ FOSSAsia Opens Doors For Many Open Source Projects http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/fossasia-opens-doors-for-many-open… Disaster Recovery in oVirt - FOSSAsia 2015 https://youtu.be/mEiFVeS_6ck ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Progress on oVirt Node 3.6 http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/112893789355/what-a-week-to-get-ovirt-node-… Install oVirt on CentOS 7 http://jensd.be/?p=550 Installing oVirt Hosted Engine [Video] [Spanish] https://youtu.be/W8ErWHXY66A Introducing vmcreate, a RHEV / oVirt Python API VM creation script http://www.clevernetsystems.com/rhev-ovirt-python-api-vm-creation-script/ Updates on the oVirt Appliances (installation of engine and node) http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/114039260970/updates-on-the-ovirt-appliance… Virtualisation avec oVirt https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/03/27/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-1-introduction/ (With thanks to Itamar Heim for the links!) -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2015-04-01
by Yaniv Dary 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.log.html ========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by ydary at 14:02:24 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and roll Call (ydary, 14:02:34) * infra update (ydary, 14:02:36) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:02:37) * 3.6.0 status (ydary, 14:02:39) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:02:40) * other topics (ydary, 14:02:42) * infra update (ydary, 14:04:53) * Jenkins slaves are being upgraded on centos 7.1. (ydary, 14:08:10) * No downtime expected. (ydary, 14:09:08) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:09:55) * oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 released today. Announcement: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000165.html (ydary, 14:10:57) * oVirt Live iso has been created and is already available on oVirt site. (ydary, 14:11:44) * oVirt 3.5.2\3.5.3 status update: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010200.html (ydary, 14:12:43) * No blockers on 3.5.3 currently. (ydary, 14:13:04) * oVirt 3.5.2 GA may slip due to bug count and holidays. RC4 is expected. (ydary, 14:14:49) * 3.6 status (ydary, 14:15:23) * oVirt 3.6 status update: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010192.html (ydary, 14:16:17) * Integration 3.6.0 Updates: qemu-kvm-ev hit master this morning thanks to centos 7.1. (ydary, 14:17:11) * Debian Jessie GA date has been announced to be April 25th, no progress on supporting it for now. (ydary, 14:17:25) * Network 3.6.0 Updates: SR-IOV patches started being merged. (ydary, 14:19:38) * Also merged allowing to pass a CIDR-style prefix in addition to complete subnet mask format when configuring IP for a host network. (ydary, 14:20:38) * Node 3.6.0 Updates: Worked on streamlining some build jobs, no progress other than that. (ydary, 14:22:53) * UX 3.6.0 Updates: UI over REST api feature has been bumped from 3.6 to 4.0. It is still in progress, but at a lower capacity since we have more time now. (ydary, 14:25:40) * SLA 3.6.0 Updates: REST quota API is in progress. (ydary, 14:27:47) * Started initial design for numa aware KSM using MoM. (ydary, 14:28:25) * SLA and Integ are also working on hosted engine enhancments. (ydary, 14:29:10) * Till end of this week SLA will have partial working flow of starting hosted engine vm from shared storage. Also patches for adding memory to load-balancing are in review. (ydary, 14:30:49) * Gluster 3.6.0 updates: Geo-replication management, volume snapshot, brick provisioning and gluster network role still in the works. No big changes. (ydary, 14:34:17) * Virt 3.6.0 updates: Discussing vdsm side of v2v. Also bulk stats/scale improvements on vdsm side and VNC+SPICE console almost finished. (ydary, 14:38:21) * Infra 3.6.0 updates: No change from last week. (ydary, 14:42:35) * Storage 3.6.0 updates: Cinder support - first series of engine patches merged, support most positive flows with disks. vdsm still needs to be taken from the draft branch. (ydary, 14:45:23) * SPM Removal - first series of draft patches up for review/playing, nothing merged yet. (ydary, 14:45:39) * Extending SD - some ux work, some patches pushed as drafts, not ready yet. (ydary, 14:46:07) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:46:44) * Planning for KVM Forum is up and running. KVM- and oVirt-related talks should be submitted at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp before May 1. (ydary, 14:47:23) * Reminder: CFP for All Things Open in Raleigh on Oct. 18-20. CfP for ATO closes on April 30 Details: http://bit.ly/1FUKYRv. (ydary, 14:47:51) * Reminder: LinuxCon EU, CfP for that event on Oct. 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland (and the co-located CloudOpen) is open. CfP closes on June 17. http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp (ydary, 14:48:06) * New: There will be a large community room at Red Hat Summit (June 23-26). oVirt will join projects such as Gluster, ManangeIQ, RDO, and Project Atomic to host booths and a mini-track of community-oriented sessions. (ydary, 14:48:15) * OSS2015 in florence on may 16. (ydary, 14:48:51) * other topics (ydary, 14:49:20) * ACTION: Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html (ydary, 14:49:43) * We have nearly 500 people in our oVirt Facebook group, a nice milestone (thanks doron_mtg for pointing this out this morning)! There's 1,940 Twitter followers of @oVirt, in case anyone is asking. (ydary, 14:50:01) * The work on the web site conversion to MarkDown proceeds. Once that is done, we will work on the new site's organization/categorization, and then finalize the new features. So far, a blog platform, a live social media feed on the front page, an Ask/StackOverflow-like forum, and an interactive feature list are among the new features. (ydary, 14:50:17) * The decision on the Outreachy candidates will be made very soon. Itamar has approved two candidates for this round, and we are finalizing the decision now. Look for an announcement this week. (ydary, 14:50:41) Meeting ended at 14:51:44 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * ydary (90) * sbonazzo (21) * bkp (14) * lvernia (10) * rgolan (8) * bkorren (7) * amureini (6) * awels (4) * sahina (4) * fabiand (4) * mskrivanek (2) * ovirtbot (2) * oved (1) * vissree (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Yaniv Dary Technical Product Manager Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 8272306 Email: ydary(a)redhat.com IRC : ydary

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