[ovirt-users] [QE][ACTION NEEDED] oVirt 3.5.0 Second Alpha status

Wed May 28 07:13:06 UTC 2014

Hi,
We're preparing for feature freeze scheduled for 2014-05-30.
We're going to compose a Second Alpha on Firday *2014-05-30 08:00 UTC*.
Maintainers:
- Please be sure that master snapshot allow to create VMs before *2014-05-29 15:00 UTC*

The bug tracker [1] shows the following proposed blockers to be reviewed:

Bug ID	Whiteboard	Status		Summary
1001100	integration	NEW		Add log gathering for a new ovirt module (External scheduler)
1073944	integration	ASSIGNED	Add log gathering for a new ovirt module (External scheduler)
1060198	integration	NEW		[RFE] add support for Fedora 20
1100236	integration	NEW		all-in-one setup should configure cluster compatibility as max common between vdsm and engine

Feature freeze has been postponed to 2014-05-30 and the following features should be testable in 3.5.0 Alpha according to Features Status Table [2]

Group		oVirt BZ	Title
gluster		1096713		Monitoring (UI plugin) Dashboard (Integrated with Nagios monitoring)
infra		1090530		[RFE] Please add host count and guest count columns to "Clusters" tab in webadmin
infra		1078738		[RFE] make ovirt easy configurable to allow redirection of all logs to syslog
infra		1054778		[RFE] Allow to perform fence operations from a host in another DC
infra		1090803		[RFE] Change the "Slot" field to "Service Profile" when cisco_ucs is selected as the fencing type
infra		1090511		[RFE] Improve fencing robustness by retrying failed attempts
infra		1090800		[RFE] Add periodic power management health check to detect/warn about link-down detection of power management LAN
infra		1090794		[RFE] Search VMs based on MAC address from web-admin portal
infra		1090793		consider the event type while printing events to engine.log
infra		1090796		[RFE] Re-work engine ovirt-node host-deploy sequence
infra		1090798		[RFE] Admin GUI - Add host uptime information to the "General" tab
infra		1090808		[RFE] Ability to dismiss alerts and events from web-admin portal
infra		1058737		[RFE] Restart HA VMs ASAP
infra-api	1090797		[RFE] RESTAPI: Add /tags sub-collection for Template resource
infra-dwh	1091686		prevent OutOfMemoryError after starting the dwh service.
infra-dwh	1091687		History DB should sync user's first and last name for user usage tables
network		1078836		Add a warning when adding display network
network		1079719		Display of NIC Slave/Bond fault on Event Log
network		1080984		Support bridging_opts functionality within oVirt
network		1080987		Support ethtool_opts functionality within oVirt
network		1078862		Providing Neutron Applience
storage				Store OVF on any domains
storage		1083312		Disk alias recycling in web-admin portal
storage		1086181		[RFE] Snapshot overview in webadmin portal
ux		1064543		oVirt new look and feel [PatternFly adoption] - phase #1
virt		1058832		Allow to clone a (down) VM without snapshot/template
virt		1031040		can't set different keymap for vnc via runonce option
virt		1043471		oVirt guest agent for SLES
virt		1073453		Debian 7 support (incl. 1043474 oVirt guest agent for Debian)
virt		1072313		Edit Running Vm
virt		1083049		add progress bar for vm migration
virt		1083065		EL 7 guest compatibility
virt				Allow guest serial number to be configurable
virt		1047624		[RFE] support BIOS boot device menu
virt		1083129		allows setting netbios name, locale, language and keyboard settings for windows vm's
virt		1038632		spice-html5 button to show debug console/output window
virt		1080002		[RFE] Enable user defined Windows Sysprep file

Some more features may be included since they were near to be completed on last sync meeting.
The table will be updated on next sync meeting scheduled for 2014-05-28.

There are still 377 bugs [3] targeted to 3.5.0.
Excluding node and documentation bugs we still have 314 bugs [4] targeted to 3.5.0.

Maintainers / Assignee:
- Please remember to rebuild your packages before *2014-05-29 15:00 UTC* if needed, otherwise nightly snapshot will be taken.
- Please be sure that master snapshot allow to create VMs before *2014-05-29 15:00 UTC*
- If you find a blocker bug please remember to add it to the tracker [1]
- Please start filling release notes, the page has been created here [5]
- Please review and add test cases to oVirt 3.5 Test Day [6]

Community:
- You're welcome to join us testing this alpha release and getting involved in oVirt Quality Assurance[7]!

[1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1073943
[2] http://bit.ly/17qBn6F
[3] http://red.ht/1pVEk7H
[4] http://red.ht/1rLCJwF
[5] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes
[6] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay
[7] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Quality_Assurance

Thanks,

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Sandro Bonazzola
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