Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 14 July 2020 in status-meeting-minutes • 5 min read

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LINK: https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-06-30.html#status-2020-06-30

Previous Actions

The discussion about "Previous Actions" started at 16:55.

Recent Changes

The discussion about "Recent Changes" started at 16:56.

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 17:01.

Community Charter

The discussion about "Community Charter" started at 17:08.

Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office Hours (next ~30 mins)" started at 17:13.

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  • blackboxsw (52)
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  • AnhVoMSFT (2)
  • Odd_Bloke (2)
  • smoser (0)
  • rharper (0)

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16:52 <blackboxsw> #startmeeting cloud-init status meeting

16:52 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Jul 14 16:52:35 2020 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

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16:52 <AnhVoMSFT> nvm

16:52 <blackboxsw> heh.

16:52 <blackboxsw> let's do it since we have an active attendee.

16:53 <blackboxsw> i'll make it snappy today

16:53 <AnhVoMSFT> sounds good

16:53 <blackboxsw> community notice: time for another bi-weekly (or semi-monthly if you prefer) cloud-init community status meeting

16:53 <blackboxsw> #chair rharper Odd_Bloke smoser

16:53 <meetingology> Current chairs: Odd_Bloke blackboxsw rharper smoser

16:53 <blackboxsw> welcome to another round of cloud-init upstream updates and discussion. We use this meeting as a time to gather to discuss current development of cloud-init, ask and answer questions, and generally expedite development be unblocking devs. All questions. side-conversations and interruptions are welcome

16:54 <blackboxsw> first order of bizzzznesss. setting the meeting for next time

16:54 <blackboxsw> +2 weeks from today

16:54 <blackboxsw> July 28th same time (minus 30 mins)

16:55 <blackboxsw> previous meeting minutes are here:

16:55 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-06-30.html#status-2020-06-30

16:55 <blackboxsw> The topics we'll cover today: Previous Actions, Recent Changes, In-progress Development, Community Charter, Office Hours (~30 mins).

16:55 <blackboxsw> #topic Previous Actions

16:56 <blackboxsw> none seen last session. so we can jump to the next topic

16:56 <blackboxsw> #topic Recent Changes

16:56 <blackboxsw> The following commits have been landed on master of upstream branch since last meeting: found via git log --since 2020-06-30

16:57 <blackboxsw> #link https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/6Fn5jy8t46/

16:58 <blackboxsw> a bit of cleanup and test coverage work and CI fixups for lxd integratin testing in those commits.

16:58 <blackboxsw> Of note:

16:59 <blackboxsw> a fix for (LP: #1456277) thx lucas

16:59 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1456277 in cloud-init "cloud-init searches for ec2 mirrors regardless of what cloud its on" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1456277

16:59 <blackboxsw> a fix for (LP: #1884619) part of the cloudinit.net refactor for thx Odd_Bloke

16:59 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1884619 in cloud-init "cloudinit.net refactor: is_physical" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1884619

16:59 <blackboxsw> and (LP: #1886531) fix for missing /etc/fstab file path thx rharper

16:59 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1886531 in cloud-init "cloud-init status broken in groovy lxd containers" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1886531

17:00 <blackboxsw> and thanks paride for fixing our CI tests for lxd-based targets

17:01 <blackboxsw> I think that about wraps recent-changes.

17:01 <blackboxsw> #topic In-progress Development

17:02 <blackboxsw> I was hoping today we'd be able to finally say cloud-init 20.2 has published and released to Ubuntu Xenial. Bionic, Eoan and Focal. All testing is complete, we have unblocked any of this process on our side and we are awaiting an SRU team representative to review and release the bits into Ubuntu proper.

17:03 <blackboxsw> We pinged yesterday and a few hour ago again to get this SRU reviewed and released. Expectation is that it will be released to all Ubuntu series today/tonight, so I'd expect that cloud images see that update in the next day or two.

17:04 <blackboxsw> for those watching at home, the folowing bug will be closed as fix-released once cloud-init SRU is published.

17:04 <blackboxsw> #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1881018

17:04 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1881018 in cloud-init (Ubuntu) "sru cloud-init (19.4.33 to 20.2-45) Xenial, Bionic, Eoan and Focal" [Undecided,In progress]

17:06 <blackboxsw> for context, this was a beast of an SRU (as upstream waited too long (~6 months) between to get the SRUs, which involved more verification and complexity. We will make sure to avoid some of this complexity in the future by more frequent SRUs and more requests for community validation I expect.

17:07 <blackboxsw> Also, expect that when this SRU is published, and email will be sent to cloud-init@lists.launchpad.net and a discourse post as well as a "community-notice:" banned comment

17:08 <blackboxsw> #topic Community Charter

17:08 <blackboxsw> Community driven development is what helps keep cloud-init active, so that you all for your contributions ( PR reviews, bugs, PR development, discussion etc).

17:09 <blackboxsw> we have a number of general goals we continue to work toward:

17:10 <blackboxsw> - json schema coverage of cloudinit.config.cc_* modules for better error reporting on malformed user-data

17:10 <blackboxsw> - datasource documentation updates and content creation needs

17:10 <blackboxsw> - cloudinit.net refactor into distro-specific networking subclasses cloudinit.distros.networking

17:11 <blackboxsw> Bugs associated with that work are available for anyone to own

17:11 <blackboxsw> #link k https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/?field.tag=bitesize

17:11 <blackboxsw> #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bugs?field.tag=net-refactor

17:11 <blackboxsw> And details docs on existing refactor are available here

17:12 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/hacking.html#ongoing-refactors

17:13 <blackboxsw> If anyone would like to be involved more than they currently are, please feel free to contact us here in IRC #cloud-init on Freenode or on the mailing list cloud-init@lists.launchpad.net and we can see how best we can get you "set up"

17:13 <blackboxsw> #topic Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

17:13 <blackboxsw> This 'section' of the meeting is a time where a couple of upstream devs will be available in channel for any discussions, questions, bug work or PR reviews.

17:14 <blackboxsw> any topics, bugs, PRs or concerns or rotten fruit to throw are all welcome :). In the absence of dicussion, cloud-init PR reviews are prioritized

17:18 <blackboxsw> Odd_Bloke: can I merge the following as your squashmerge commit message for PR https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/466 https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZRdq4bYWG7/ I think it fixed LP: #1884626

17:18 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1884626 in cloud-init "cloudinit.net refactor: wait_for_physdevs" [Low,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1884626

17:31 <Odd_Bloke> blackboxsw: You cannot (because I just did ;).

17:31 <blackboxsw> :sad trombone:

17:43 <Odd_Bloke> I just reran the RTD doc build and it passed this time (for anyone else who just got that failure email).

17:50 <blackboxsw> Ok I think that about wraps the status meeting

17:50 <blackboxsw> thanks for tuning in folks

17:50 <blackboxsw> #endmeeting

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