2026-05-11 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-05-11 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, LibenHailu

Reminders:

• we will create GitHub issues for tracking

• GitHub issues and PRs

• should be marked with /sig ci and /kind flake if applicable

• should be marked with the target sig

Topics:

• [urgent]

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• ci-health

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• ci-failures largely caused by 502 due to quay.io issues

• quick look at the e2e job failures:
  https://grafana.ci.kubevirt.io/d/efpTS3t4z/e2e-jobs-overview-v2

• artifactory failures seen by Nir Dothan, link pending

• [timeboxed: 5 mins] revisit previous action items

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• existing issues opened in last 7 days: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Akubevirt%2Fproject-infra+is%3Aissue++-label%3Akind%2Fenhancement&type=issues&state=open

• [non-urgent]

• [dhiller] remove hold from https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/4989 if no objections

• [dhiller] vsock

• pr https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17690

• latest test-subset result is successful: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17690#issuecomment-4386015196

• [misc]

• Look at held tests:

• https://grafana.ci.kubevirt.io/d/uAoSeksSk/referee-retests?orgId=1&refresh=15m&from=now-1h&to=now

• is:pr is:open label:approved label:lgtm -label:do-not-merge/hold -label:needs-rebase 

• is:pr is:open quarantine -label:do-not-merge/work-in-progress label:kind/flake -label:needs-rebase 

• recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI

• 9 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-05-04 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5045: fix: update garbage collected commenter image tags (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5039: SEV: mark lanes as required after service account token renewal (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5038: (Chore): Move testsutils from external-plugins to pkg directory (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5029: Add config map to coverage auto (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5024: Add README documentation for testutils external plugin (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/kubectl-virt-plugin#44: chore(bump): update GitHub Actions versions and remove unused files (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5021: chore(kubectl-virt-plugin): use common bootstrap image (by @dollierp)

• kubevirt/project-infra#4989: feat: shorten PR lifecycle to 45/14/7, keep issues at 90/30/30 (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirt#17383: docs: document automatic quarantine workflow (by @dhiller)

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Action items

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  communication

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  send meeting notes to kubevirt-dev (include meeting changes for upcoming instances)

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Kind regards,

Daniel Hiller

He / Him / His

Principal Software Engineer, KubeVirt CI, OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat

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