Thursday, 2026-03-19

fungisean-k-mooney: is https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/configuration/drivers.html the new guide referred to in the 2026.1/gazpacho highlights?19:35
sean-k-mooneyyes its still not very compelte but it was better then the 0 content that was more or less there before19:37
sean-k-mooneyfungi: did you have any specific questions of feed back?19:38
fungisean-k-mooney: nope, just going back through on a final pass of highlights now that more of them have merged, flagging things for the marketing/pr folks to consider working into the press package19:41
fungithey're overly eager to say ai-related things about cyborg, because media hype train, and i thought at least that's something useful to show in that regard while you're still getting ramped up on deeper development efforts19:42
sean-k-mooneyya well this guide is mostly ai generated form the souce code and config option help text but framed to be a litte more parseable19:44
sean-k-mooneyits ceretnly either then lookign at the config smaples https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/configuration/sample-config.html19:44
fungito marketing people, cyborg == gpu == ai19:44
sean-k-mooneyfungi: basiclly i created it when i realisted that there was no doc on hwo to deploy with a specific driver or what depencies it needs 19:45
fungiso whenever they want to say things about ai, cyborg always comes up19:45
sean-k-mooneyya19:45
sean-k-mooneythat proably because its called out in the ai white paper so prominently19:45
fungibut hey, if it brings attention to the project and maybe more help, who am i to argue? ;)19:45
fungias long as we don't say anything that's untrue, it's cool19:46
sean-k-mooney:) 19:46
sean-k-mooneyhttps://www.openstack.org/openstack-for-ai-white-paper implies cyborg is more useful today then it really is19:47
sean-k-mooneybut that does nto mean it cant evovle to have a larger role in the future19:47
fungii'm still enough of an engineer that i don't like to lie about things, but i feel like there are exciting things to say while sticking to the facts19:47
fungiand sometimes we just need to make seemingly-unexciting things exciting19:48
fungilike... driver documentation19:48
fungi(from my perspective, it's great when anyone cares about documentation at all, so that's a clear win)19:49
sean-k-mooneyya specs are grate but oen of the thing is want to improve in general is the intree devleoper docs and user/admin ones too to capture more of the why and how it wors type content19:50
sean-k-mooneythe user/admin ones need to be more how you use it focused19:50
sean-k-mooneybut i think improving the contributor docs is also important so that future contibutor undersand how and imporantly why thigns work19:51
sean-k-mooneythe way they work19:51
fungithat would all be great for project updates, absolutely19:51
sean-k-mooneyi partly considered if moving the cyborg-spec into the docs like placement did would be good long term but that was too low a priority to change right away19:51
fungifrom a "what's in 2026.1/gazpacho?" angle, there's less to cover for cyborg at the moment, hence gravitating toward the driver config guide19:52
sean-k-mooneyya the main things that change were oslo.db comatablity, eventlet removal and a cople of bug fixes19:53
fungiof the highlights, the only other maybe user-facing one was placement integration19:53
sean-k-mooneypartly because the focus was "get somethign releaseable" rather then adding end user value via new features ectra19:53
fungibut that's a bit harder to get marketing people to turn into a good press blurb19:53
sean-k-mooneythe placement fix was more an operator highlight19:53
fungisounds like there may be some great nuggets to include in 2026.2/hibiscus press though19:54
sean-k-mooneybut yes there isnt a lot to highlith for actull end users this cycle19:54
sean-k-mooneyhopefully19:55
fungiyeah, you and i both know that's the most important thing, it's just sadly not the sort of thing news articles are likely to focus on19:55
sean-k-mooneyya so as you said along as what they include is correct i think haveing a minimal refence to cybrog is fine. i know there is a tempation to include it because of the ai connection but i think most of that will come in 2026.2, 2027.1 or later releases as we properly get going again20:00
sean-k-mooneythe only ai usecase not supproted driectly in nova form https://www.openstack.org/openstack-for-ai-white-paper is fpga provisiong. that is the only thing that cybrog really brings to the tabel today.20:03
sean-k-mooneywe are currently trying to source some hardware for a potical third party ci to test some gpu usecase going forward20:04

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