Date

06 Sep 2017

Agenda Summary:

In total there 42 items that must be reviewed during the first quarterly call. Following is a schedule on how we are setting the time aside for each company based on number of things they have listed:

Development Discussion - start time 9:05 AM PST

ShapeBlue  - 14 items 

Accelerite - 8 items

ENA - 2 items

CloudOps - 2 items

Nuage - 6 items

Community Discussion

ShapeBlue - 5 Items

Accelerite - 5 Items 

Development Efforts:

• Listed in the order communication was received.

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• Summary Support Hyper-V Clustering.
• Link to FS and/or JIRA None
• Lead Developer
• Release target

Company: CloudOps

Feature Name Baremetal using MaaS

• Lead Developer Syed Ahmed
• Summary We want to add baremetal functionality in Cloudstack for advanced
  networks using MaaS which offers a wide varity of options for provisioning
  baremetal servers.
• Design https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/MaaS+Integration+for+Baremetal+Provisioning+in+Cloudstack
• JIRA CLOUDSTACK-9913
• PR TBD
• Release Target 4.11.0

Feature Name NoVNC Console

• Lead Developer Sachin Patil via GSOC
• Summary To create a better VNC client for Cloudstack using noVNC
• Designhttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/noVNC+support+for+Cloudstack
• JIRA CLOUDSTACK-10025
• PRhttps://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2204
• Release Target 4.11.0

Company: ENA 

Feature Name Ability to Specify Mac Address when plugging a network

• Lead Developer Nathan Johnson
• Summary The ability to specify a mac address when shifting a VM
  workload from another environment makes the transition a lot easier.
• Design 
• JIRA CLOUDSTACK-9949
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2143
• Release Target 4.11.0

Company: Nuage Networks

Feature Name Network migration support

• Summary Generic network and VPC migration support to a new Physical
  network (and new network/vpc offering), tested for Native to Nuage networks
  deployments and v.v.
• Design https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Physical+Networking+Migration
• JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-10024
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2259
• Lead Developer Sigert Goeminne
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Feature Name Extra DHCP options support

• Summary Extra DHCP options support on per vNIC basis through new
  generic API and framework, implemented for Nuage VSP initially
  only
• Design https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+extra+DHCP+option+support
• JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9776
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2049
• Lead Developer Sigert Goeminne
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Feature Name VPC Inline LB

• Summary LoadBalancer implementation, which is in basis a system vm
  like Internal LB, combined with static nat rules.
• Design https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61340894
• JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9282
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2010
• Lead Developer Urvi Shah
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Feature Name Statistics / Caching

• Summary Latest Nuage Client code, with support for Caching of VSD
  Ids (External Ids), and keeping API statistics (Call counts).
• JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-10053
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2238
• Lead Developer Sigert Goeminne
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Feature Name Config Drive

• Summary Adding Config Drive support for isolated networks and VPC,
  by adding a dedicated provider. Generating the ISO by Secondary Storage
  VM.
• Design https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Using+ConfigDrive...
• *https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Using+ConfigDrive+for+Metadata%2C+Userdata+and+Password*
• JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9813
• PR https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2097
• Lead Developer Frank Maximus
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Feature Name Nuage VSP 5.0 Support

• JIRA TBD
• PR TBD
• Lead Developer Frank Maximus
• Release Target 4.11.0.0

Community Effort

Company: ShapeBlue

Subject CloudStack fat jar packaging

• Short Summary CloudStack installation has huge dependency on distro provided tomcat, by moving to embedded jetty (like we do use jetty for development) we can sync how developers develop/test mgmt servers and users use it. In addition, it will be easier to publish pkgs without depending on distro provided dependencies.
• Lead(s) R Yadav/MA Brothier
• Target Date

Subject Debian9 systemvmtemplate

• Short Summary Required update, Debian7 is EOL, moving to Debian9 will give; newer kernel, newer packages, Smaller disk footprint (faster deployment and more space efficient) and Systemd should give quicker boot time
• Lead(s) R Yadav/W Hollander
• Target Date

Subject 4.9.3.0

• Short Summary Backport of bug fixes to 4.9 branch and release 4.9.3.0.
• Lead(s) R Yadav
• Target Date

Subject Winston

• Short Summary WIP - PoC of Phase 1 (consolidated data storage) in ShapeBlue Lab - Elasticsearch instance receiving test run data from Trillian & Blue Orangutan. Once it has a decent amount I'll come to community for ideas and feedback (and help). By the time of the conf call I will have updated: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Project+Winston+-+Consolidated+Test+Data
• Lead(s) P Angus
• Target Date

Subject Marvin Test Categories

• Short Summary Enable quicker, targeted test runs in Marvin, by allowing user to specify Which element(s) are touched ie. Networking
• Lead(s) B Stoyanov
• Target Date

Company: Accelerite

Subject Release Management

• Short summary Accelerite has been doing Release management for many releases for Cloudstack. Most recently 4.10. We will continue these efforts
• Lead(s) Rajani
• Target date

Subject PR Process

• Short summary Current PR process takes quite a long for a PR to get merged. Couple of examples (1) there are comments on the PR that were addressed by the author but no one may respond (2) there are comments from reviewers and the author does not respond. The whole process can take potentially a longtime if either the author or the reviewers take time to respond. Can we think about implementing some kind of validating on the Prs.. Bottomline is how can we improve ?
• Lead(s) TBD
• Target date

Subject Regression Tests

• Short Summary There are a number of tests in the integration folder which are not run. Need to group these together and start running them.
• Lead(s) Raja/Looking for support
• Target Date TBD

Subject Release Qualification

• Short Summary RC to Readiness takes quite a bit of time. Can we discuss on ways to improve this.
• Lead(s) Raja/Looking for support
• Target Date TBD

Subject Performance Testing

• Short Summary Add Performance tests. Need hardware where we can run these tests on?
• Lead(s) Raja/Looking for support
• Target Date TBD

Blockers

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Attendees

• ilya musayev

Goals

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