14:00:41 #startmeeting oVirt Weekly Sync 14:00:41 Meeting started Wed Aug 22 14:00:41 2012 UTC. The chair is mburns. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:00:41 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 14:00:48 #topic Agenda and Roll Call 14:00:52 * lh is here 14:00:54 * RobertM Here 14:00:56 * dougsland here 14:00:58 * quaid is here 14:01:29 14[[07Meetings14]]4 !10 02http://wiki.ovirt.org/w/index.php?diff=4287&oldid=4286&rcid=4385 5* 03Mburns 5* (+174) 10/* 2012 */  14:01:40 Agenda: 14:01:41 Status of Next Release (Release Criteria, Target GA date) 14:01:42 Sub-project reports (engine, vdsm, node, infra) 14:01:42 Upcoming workshops 14:03:05 let's start with the workshop stuff first 14:03:18 #topic Upcoming Workshops 14:03:22 lh: you're on 14:03:31 * dustins here 14:03:49 mburns, one moment, i assumed i'd be on last 14:04:04 lh: ok 14:04:26 LinuxCon North America workshop is next week. 14:04:27 lh: i expect the release planning stuff to take the most time, so wanted to make sure your stuff gets in 14:04:36 #info LC North America is next week 14:04:40 mburns, no problem, just wanted to make sure i had accurate data to share 14:05:09 We're at 93 confirmed registrants for the workshop. We'll be providing a nice gift to all attendees - a travel power strip. 14:05:22 #info presenters: acathrow jb_netapp abaron mburns 14:05:22 We have a confirmed speaker list and that will shortly be updated on the event website. 14:05:43 #info at 93 out of 100 spots full 14:06:10 As mentioned last week, the oVirt CFP for the KVM Forum + oVirt Workshop has been issued. Still looking for each Board company to provide a reviewer. 14:06:38 Thank you to aglitke, jb_netapp, and Kyle Mestery for volunteering thus far. 14:06:44 #info still looking for board companies to provide reviewers of CFP 14:06:51 If anyone need further data on this matter, please contact me. 14:07:29 #info please contact lh if you have any questions on CFP 14:09:52 lh: anything else? 14:09:56 ahh... 14:10:19 ok, so other stuff that I know is coming up: 14:10:33 #info Bangalore workshop is in October 14:11:11 #link http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_Global_Workshops 14:11:39 lh: welcome back 14:11:43 Apologies, my connectivity here is not superb. 14:11:50 mburns, last thing all folks saw please? 14:12:12 If anyone need further data on this matter, please contact me. 14:12:12 #info please contact lh if you have any questions on CFP 14:12:33 All help to promote this CFP is greatly appreciated. We'll be working with OVA to do some promotion but more is always better. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/cfp-ovirt 14:12:34 mburns, thanks 14:12:45 And last but not least, the oVirt workshop in Bangalore on 16 October has received one talk proposal, which is lovely. Obviously, we'd like more submissions. I'll be requesting those on the mailing list. 14:12:57 mburns, that's all I have unless folks have questions. 14:13:02 lh: ok, thanks 14:13:16 #info 1 talk proposal for Bangalore workshop currently 14:13:32 #info still need more presenters 14:13:43 any questions/comments? 14:14:20 ok, moving on 14:14:27 #topic Release Status 14:14:42 #info we're currently in the planning phase for the next release (call it 3.2 for simplicity) 14:14:53 we need to decide on a target release date 14:15:01 #info we need to decide on a target release date 14:15:21 #info we need to decide on planned features that we're going to track against 14:15:34 #link http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Release_Process 14:15:52 #info we need to finalize release criteria 14:16:13 so let's try taking those 1 at a time 14:16:27 #topic Release date 14:16:49 on the mailing list, a few ideas were tossed around 14:17:06 anything from november -> january 14:17:33 original plan was to do the first few releases at 3 month intervals which would put us in early November 14:18:14 the only real major deadline that we could run into is Fedora 19 feature freeze in early January 14:18:29 Robert Suggested since this is the last short term one we try and sync it in with the fedora release schedule so the next release will be ready for the next fedora release. 14:19:10 latest emails on the Release Planning thread seemed to come to a consensus around targeting early November 14:20:05 we've generally determined that wednesday releases make the most sense, so the first wednesday is November 7 14:20:16 which is right in the middle of the Barcelona workshop 14:20:17 displ 14:20:57 so i'd like to propose a target release date of November 14 14:21:11 any acks? objections? comments? concerns? 14:21:35 looks good to me. 14:22:48 Looks good to me. 14:23:20 * mburns notes that the only project maintainer here is mburns 14:24:43 * mburns thinks we can't really decide on a release date without at least provisional buy-in from lpeer/itamar/doron... 14:24:53 and/or acathrow... 14:25:10 #info proposed target release date is November 14 14:25:32 this is what arch@ is for :) 14:25:59 #info not enough maintainers available to make final decision 14:26:24 quaid: yes, but maintainers should also be here for this meeting 14:26:26 mburns, agreed 14:26:39 otherwise there is no point 14:26:58 #topic Release Status (continued) 14:27:17 #info not enough maintainers around to determine proposed features or to discuss release criteria 14:27:59 well, we can discuss some of the release criteria i think anyway 14:28:11 #link http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_3.1_release_management 14:28:21 #info that is the release criteria for 3.1 release 14:28:31 #action mburns to make release status page for 3.2 release 14:29:19 are there any topics that we want to add to the list? 14:29:29 or release criteria, that is 14:29:34 s/or/of 14:29:44 maybe something around release notes and/or documentation 14:29:47 screencasts? 14:32:06 ok, no response... 14:32:18 guess we can't make any progress there either... 14:32:49 #topic other topics 14:33:11 #info not much point doing sub-project statuses when there aren't any maintainers here 14:33:20 anyone have other stuff to talk about? 14:33:51 we have Infra folks here, not sure if there is anything to discuss, I just got back from a long weekend 14:34:37 quaid: there wasn't a meeting yesterday, so not much status to report, i don't think 14:34:56 we said yesterday we could catch up in this meeting, if needed, that's all 14:34:56 but if RobertM has something to discuss, then i'll change the topic 14:35:28 quaid: right 14:36:35 RobertM: anythign to bring up? 14:36:40 No 14:37:03 ok, then i think we're done this week 14:37:10 thanks all 14:37:12 #endmeeting