TSC Meeting (June 1, 2021), v3.5.0

[amanda11]

June @StackStorm/tsc 1 hour meeting will take place on Tuesday, 1st June 2021, 09:30 AM US Pacific. See #33 for more info about how to join.

Meeting Agenda (TBC)

Agenda

StackStorm v3.5.0 Status (@amanda11)

Details:

• Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/StackStorm/projects/20
• Release Manager @amanda11, Release Assistant: @winem
• Target: June
  • Add Python 3.8 support (@winem, @carlos, @kami)
  • Ubuntu 20 Migration https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/68 (@winem, @carlos)
  • Remove support for Ubuntu 16: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/69
  • Core Performance Improvements (done) - @Kami
  • Redis as a default st2 coordination backend https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/70 (@m4dcoder)
• Ansible Deployment (done) - @amanda11
• Puppet Deployment - @nmaludy
• Docker & K8s (done) - @armab
  • PIP & Virtualenv Maintenance upgrade (done) - @amanda11
  • RBAC/LDAP support in Ansible Deployment - (@winem)
  • Node upgrade?

Subcommittee Updates

deb/rpm Package Hosting solutions (@nmaludy, @blag?)

• Sub-committee WIP: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/74

Migrating stackstorm.com from Wordpress to static github pages (@armab, @nmaludy)

• Sub-committee WIP: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/76

Migrating forum.stackstorm.com to Github Discussions (no owner)

• Sub-committee WIP: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/75
• GH Discussions: https://github.com/StackStorm/st2/discussions

Partner Program Progress (Mick)

• Sub-committee WIP: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/73
• Plan: finalize the details, bootstrap and announce the program to the public

[mickmcgrath13]

For the Partner Program, updates are here: https://github.com/StackStorm/discussions/issues/73#issuecomment-852177822

tldr, next steps are:

• Submit formal proposal for TSC voting (this week)
• Make it live! (i.e. Page swapping https://stackstorm.com/stackstorm-partners-program-description/?preview=true from https://stackstorm.com/partners-program/) (next week ish)

[amanda11]

Meeting Notes

• 3.5 Release

  • Target code freeze date Monday 14th June
  • Reviewed 3.5 project plan
    • U20 updates done. Query on UT for Mongo 4.4 - to be chased offline. Ankur volunteered to look at puppet changes. Marcel started looking at ansible changes. Puppet/Ansible changes don't block release date.
    • Review mongo 4.4/4.2 support across all O/Ses for 3.6 project plan, as well as redis and rabbitMQ versions
    • U16 - main items needed are cicd (@amanda11) to handle, documentation and scripts. overnight U16 unstable runs stopped.
    • redis - only documentation is blocking release - @m4dcoder to update
    • TLS v1.3 - @punkrokk to look at making it the default
    • st2web issue on blank screen to move to 3.6 release
    • nodejs - will not block release if don't get upgrade to node 14 working. Blocking at moment with st2chatops build with node 14 - see PR https://github.com/StackStorm/st2chatops/pull/161. Help required with node/chatops experience.
    • st2packer to move from xenial to bionic - @armab volunteered to look at
    • upgrade notes for migration tool - @cognifloyd to review @Kami's doc changes on https://github.com/StackStorm/st2docs/pull/1071

• Sub-commitee updates

  • PackageCloud. @blag had spoken about their offering. @nmaludy had had follow-up with CloudSmith who are willing to offer free plan, but details/requirements to be clarified
  • WordPress move - no update
  • Forum STackStorm -> GitHub discussions - GitHub discussions still Beta, so waiting a few months
  • Partner Program - @raviorch gave overview of the partners program that the sub-committee had worked on. To be raised as a GitHub discussion so that the TSC can vote asyncrhonously