Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 28 July 2020 in status-meeting-minutes • 3 min read

Meeting information

#cloud-init: cloud-init status meeting, 28 Jul at 16:55 — 17:56 UTC
Full logs at [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/cloud-init/2020/cloud-init.2020-07-28-16.55.log.html]]

Meeting summary

LINK: https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-07-14.html#status-2020-07-14

Previous Actions

The discussion about "Previous Actions" started at 16:58.

Recent Changes

The discussion about "Recent Changes" started at 17:00.

LINK: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/RjZcwtk6Hd/

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 17:05.

Community Charter

The discussion about "Community Charter" started at 17:11.

Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office Hours (next ~30 mins)" started at 17:15.

Vote results

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People present (lines said)

blackboxsw_ (38)
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Odd_Bloke (0)
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Full Log

16:55 <blackboxsw_> #startmeeting cloud-init status meeting

16:55 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Jul 28 16:55:17 2020 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw_. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

16:55 <meetingology>

16:55 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick

16:56 <blackboxsw_> community notice: time for another bi-weekly (or semi-monthly if you prefer) cloud-init community status meeting

16:56 <blackboxsw_> #chair Odd_Bloke smoser rharper

16:56 <meetingology> Current chairs: Odd_Bloke blackboxsw_ rharper smoser

16:57 <blackboxsw_> Hello folks, cloud-init community status roundup. We gather here in this IRC channel every 2 weeks to discuss current development tasks and progress on cloud-init.

16:57 <blackboxsw_> All questions. side-conversations and interruptions are welcome

16:58 <blackboxsw_> Last meeting minutes live here

16:58 <blackboxsw_> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-07-14.html#status-2020-07-14

16:58 <blackboxsw_> he topics we'll cover today: Previous Actions, Recent Changes, In-progress Development, Community Charter, Office Hours (~30 mins).

16:58 <blackboxsw_> #topic Previous Actions

16:58 <blackboxsw_> None found in meeting minutes from last session.

16:59 * blackboxsw_ sets the topic for next meeting.

16:59 <blackboxsw_> +2 weeks from now

16:59 <blackboxsw_> August 11th 16:15 UTC

17:00 <blackboxsw_> #topic Recent Changes

17:00 <blackboxsw_> The following commits have been landed on master of upstream branch since last meeting: found via git log --since 2020-07-14

17:01 <blackboxsw_> #link https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/RjZcwtk6Hd/

17:02 <blackboxsw_> features of note:

17:02 <blackboxsw_> - azure: avoid bouncing hostname if set hostname fails

17:03 <blackboxsw_> - vmware: new defaults for post customization script overrides on vCloud

17:04 <blackboxsw_> - azure ValueError raised if JsonDecodeErrors is not available when parsing metadata

17:05 <blackboxsw_> Thanks Goneri otubo anhVo and dermotbradley for community contributions this round

17:05 <blackboxsw_> #topic In-progress Development

17:09 <blackboxsw_> Current projects for cloud-init are leading us to additional features:

17:10 <blackboxsw_> - network device hot plug support for cloud-init post-boot

17:10 <blackboxsw_> - better integration testing on other clouds, Oracle support

17:11 <blackboxsw_> - extended json schema validation and publishing full static schema versions for external tools

17:11 <blackboxsw_> #topic Community Charter

17:12 <blackboxsw_> The following topics are still topics for ongoing community development:

17:13 <blackboxsw_> - JSON schema extensions to validate user-data before instance launch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/?field.tag=bitesize

17:13 <blackboxsw_> - Datasource documentation and updates

17:14 <blackboxsw_> - cloudinit.net refactor into distro-specific networking subclasses cloudinit.distros.networking: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bugs?field.tag=net-refactor

17:15 <blackboxsw_> As always: thank you all for bug contributions, PR submissions, triage and discussion participation.

17:15 <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"

17:15 <blackboxsw_> #topic Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

17:17 <blackboxsw_> This time of the meeting is really just an open door for any discussions, concerns, bugs, questions or general prodding of upstream devs to make sure existing development work is unblocked where possible.

17:17 <blackboxsw_> In the absence of discussions, review of existing PRs is addressed.

17:56 <blackboxsw_> Thanks for tuning in folks. have a good one!

17:56 <blackboxsw_> #endmeeting

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