16:00:00 <johnsom> #startmeeting Octavia
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16:00:00 <opendevmeet> The meeting name has been set to 'octavia'
16:00:09 <johnsom> Hi everyone!
16:00:55 <gthiemonge> o/
16:01:01 <rcruise-redhat> o/
16:01:15 <johnsom> #topic Announcements
16:01:21 <johnsom> Lots of topics today
16:01:55 <johnsom> First up, next week is the final release for octavia-lib for Gazpacho
16:02:20 <johnsom> I will take a quick look after the meeting, but I don't think we have anything pending there.
16:02:41 <johnsom> The following week is feature freeze for everything.
16:03:11 <johnsom> This means no more feature patches merge and we shift focus to bug fixes, docs updates, and test patches.
16:03:26 <johnsom> Any questions about the release timing?
16:03:34 <johnsom> #link https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html
16:03:59 <gthiemonge> lgtm
16:04:19 <johnsom> Ok. Also note, there was a setuptools release that broke a number of things across OpenStack.
16:04:20 <gthiemonge> rcruise updated his neutronclient removal from octaviaclient I think it can make it
16:04:57 <gthiemonge> it looks like they fixed devstack on stable branches
16:05:02 <johnsom> The master and stable branches should be functional again. Last I checked they were working on fixing grenade jobs in devstack.
16:05:24 <gthiemonge> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia/+/976117
16:05:40 <rcruise-redhat> gthiemonge: Beat me to it :-)
16:05:45 <gthiemonge> this patch will be needed for octavia
16:06:10 <johnsom> Ok, great, I will keep an eye on that today. Hopefully we are back functioning again.
16:06:23 <rcruise-redhat> It should be good once the Grenade job is fixed, everything else was passing
16:06:51 <gthiemonge> right
16:07:03 <johnsom> I will also note, as it is end of cycle we tend to see job slow down due to IO issues, so watch for timeouts and be ready to recheck as needed.
16:07:45 <gthiemonge> ack
16:08:13 <johnsom> Next up, it is PTL and TC election time again nominations close Feb 18, 2026 23:45 UTC
16:08:14 <rcruise-redhat> right
16:08:42 <johnsom> If you have any questions about the PTL role, please feel free to reach out, I am happy to discuss it.
16:08:59 <johnsom> I will not be running again.
16:09:44 <gthiemonge> ok
16:10:13 <johnsom> On that note, this is my last week working on OpenStack. I will be resigning my PTL and core roles.
16:10:33 <gthiemonge> :'(
16:10:46 <rcruise-redhat> johnsom: Sorry to hear that, you've been a great help
16:11:08 <johnsom> gthiemonge If it's ok with you I would like to recommend to the TC that you take over. You have experience in the PTL role.
16:11:08 <raineszm> johnsom: agreed. I haven't been here long but you've been very kind and helpful.
16:11:18 <gthiemonge> yeah thanks for your work johnsom, you'll be missed
16:11:30 <gthiemonge> johnsom: ack, i'm fine with it
16:11:49 <johnsom> It's sad to step away after 10 years working on OpenStack and helping to start the Octavia project.
16:12:52 <gthiemonge> we will train a bot with your IRC messages and commits
16:13:07 <johnsom> I think that is the bulk of the announcements I have. Any other announcements this week?
16:13:25 <gthiemonge> nothing for me
16:13:32 <johnsom> Hahaha, I would be surprised if they aren't already to be honest.
16:14:11 <rcruise-redhat> In some good news, the pipeline passed on https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia/+/976117
16:14:20 <rcruise-redhat> So the CI fixes seem to be working
16:14:29 <johnsom> Whoot! awesome
16:14:46 <raineszm> rcruise-redhat: \o/
16:14:55 <johnsom> #topic Brief progress reports / bugs needing review
16:15:38 <johnsom> I have wrapped up my assistance with Designate (found a nasty bug in oslo_service) and have pivoted back to working on Octavia.
16:15:57 <gthiemonge> I've been working mostly on downstream tasks, upstream I've made a couple of reviews
16:16:09 <johnsom> Currently I am reviewing the VRRP security group patch. This is a touchy part of code we need to be careful with.
16:16:15 <rcruise-redhat> I've been working on the Neutron client removal (still). I think it's good to go this time once the CI is fixed
16:16:17 <rcruise-redhat> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/python-octaviaclient/+/974304
16:16:31 <rcruise-redhat> I've also got 3 very simple CRs if anyone has time
16:16:36 <rcruise-redhat> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/python-octaviaclient/+/972646
16:16:44 <rcruise-redhat> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia-lib/+/972648
16:16:51 <rcruise-redhat> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia-tempest-plugin/+/972644
16:16:59 <gthiemonge> oh the bugtracker URLs..
16:17:01 <gthiemonge> good
16:17:05 <johnsom> After that I plan to finish up the api-ref work for the rate limiting feature so that patch chain is in good shape for someone to pick it up and run with it.
16:17:15 <rcruise-redhat> Yeah, we should probably point people to the right place :-)
16:17:31 <raineszm> In testing the packaging of https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia/+/780215 I found that it doesn't completely work as advertised. Failing drivers are skipped but removing them from the enabled provider list isn't persistent for the process. I have a followup patch that would be great to get into gazpacho.
16:17:35 <raineszm> #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/octavia/+/976490
16:18:00 <raineszm> rcruise-redhat: that seems like something I can review
16:18:36 <gthiemonge> raineszm: yeah I remember that we had some concerns about it, i'll take a look
16:18:40 <johnsom> It's probably a cross process issue as the API spawns workers
16:18:43 <rcruise-redhat> raineszm: Thanks, that would be great
16:19:07 <raineszm> It appears to just be that trying to write to the CONF object doesn't persist
16:19:38 <gthiemonge> ah ok
16:19:55 <raineszm> I traced the execution through a bit in the WSGI process and at some point when loading the controllers the value of CONF.enabled_provider_drivers reverts to the value in octavia.conf
16:23:05 <johnsom> Also, don't forget to test what happens when someone sends the config mutate signal. I'm pretty sure that triggers a full reload from the conf file
16:23:36 <johnsom> #link https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.config/ocata/mutable.html
16:23:47 <johnsom> That is a link if you are not familiar with that capability.
16:24:45 <johnsom> We support this, but I think Octavia simply bounces the uWSGI workers (due to signal handling complications)
16:25:16 <raineszm> johnsom: Ty! I'll take a peek. That would be the simplest case since everything would be handled automatically when we reinit.
16:26:10 <johnsom> Sigh, google pulling up the ocata version of the doc, but hey, it's a pointer.
16:27:09 <raineszm> Yeah. That happens a lot. It's weirdly hard to get the current stable docs
16:28:26 <johnsom> Yeah, I was working with the docs team for a bit and we struggled to solve this issue. It requires submitting maps with good links, but that is a challenge as well.
16:28:28 <johnsom> #link https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.config/latest/reference/mutable.html
16:29:26 <raineszm> I will say a big pet peeve is that the banner at the top goes back to the root of the docs and not the corresponding page. Maybe I should look into how to fix that.
16:29:40 <johnsom> Ok, any other progress updates before we move on to open discussion?
16:30:07 <johnsom> #topic Open Discussion
16:30:18 <johnsom> Alright, any other topics to discuss today?
16:30:49 <rcruise-redhat> None from me
16:31:31 <raineszm> johnsom: so will you not be at the next meeting then?
16:32:15 <johnsom> It is likely that I will not be at the next IRC meeting and I will not for sure be at the PTG.
16:32:20 <gthiemonge> nop
16:32:25 <gthiemonge> I can run the next meeting
16:32:27 <raineszm> :(
16:32:33 <raineszm> gthiemonge: ty
16:32:34 <rcruise-redhat> :(
16:34:47 <johnsom> Ok, if we don't have anything else this week, I will close out the meeting and say thank you to you all for the support
16:35:05 <johnsom> Thank you for the work you have put into this project.
16:35:15 <gthiemonge> johnsom: thank you!
16:35:20 <rcruise-redhat> johnsom: Thanks again for everything and best of luck!
16:35:30 <johnsom> #endmeeting