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Kubernetes Community Meeting Notes - 20160128

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

January 28 - 1.2 release update, Deis demo, flaky test surge and SIGs

The Kubernetes contributing community meets once a week to discuss the project's status via a videoconference. Here are the notes from the latest meeting.

Note taker: Erin Boyd

Discuss process around code freeze/code slush (TJ Goltermann)
- Code wind down was happening during holiday (for 1.1)
- Releasing ~ every 3 months
- Build stability is still missing
- Issue on Transparency (Bob Wise)
  - Email from Sarah for call to contribute (Monday, January 25)
    - Concern over publishing dates / understanding release schedule /etc…
- Release targeted for early March
  - Where does one find information on the release schedule with the committed features?
    - For 1.2 - Send email / Slack to TJ
    - For 1.3 - Working on better process to communicate to the community
      - Twitter
      - Wiki
      - GitHub Milestones
- How to better communicate issues discovered in the SIG
  - AI: People need to email the kubernetes-dev@ mailing list with summary of findings
  - AI: Each SIG needs a note taker
Release planning vs Release testing
- Testing SIG lead Ike McCreery
  - Also part of the testing infrastructure team at Google
  - Community being able to integrate into the testing framework
    - Federated testing
- Release Manager = David McMahon
  - Request to introduce him to the community meeting
Demo: Jason Hansen Deis
- Implemented simple REST API to interact with the platform
- Deis managed application (deployed via)
  - Source -> image
  - Rolling upgrades -> Rollbacks
  - AI: Jason will provide the slides & notes
    - Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/slack/kubernetes-community-meeting-demo-january-28th-2016
    - Alpha information: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/deis-users/Qhia4DD2pv4
  - Adding an administrative component (dashboard)
  - Helm wraps kubectl
Testing
- Called for community interaction
- Need to understand friction points from community
  - Better documentation
  - Better communication on how things “should work"
- Internally, Google is having daily calls to resolve test flakes
- Started up SIG testing meetings (Tuesday at 10:30 am PT)
- Everyone wants it, but no one want to pony up the time to make it happen
  - Google is dedicating headcount to it (3-4 people, possibly more)
- https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/kubernetes-sig-testing
Best practices for labeling
- Are there tools built on top of these to leverage
- AI: Generate artifact for labels and what they do (Create doc)
  - Help Wanted Label - good for new community members
  - Classify labels for team and area
    - User experience, test infrastructure, etc..
SIG Config (not about deployment)
- Any interest in ansible, etc.. type
SIG Scale meeting (Bob Wise & Tim StClair)
- Tests related to performance SLA get relaxed in order to get the tests to pass
  - exposed process issues
  - AI: outline of a proposal for a notice policy if things are being changed that are critical to the system (Bob Wise/Samsung)
    - Create a Best Practices of set of constants into well documented place

To get involved in the Kubernetes community consider joining our Slack channel, taking a look at the Kubernetes project on GitHub, or join the Kubernetes-dev Google group. If you’re really excited, you can do all of the above and join us for the next community conversation — February 4th, 2016. Please add yourself or a topic you want to know about to the agenda and get a calendar invitation by joining this group.

The full recording is available on YouTube in the growing archive of Kubernetes Community Meetings.

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