KubeVirt Community Meeting 2026-02-18

[Andrew Burden]

2026-02-18 MINUTES

Recording: https://youtu.be/P6WfXPaV-rY 

Attendees: Dylan White Igor Bezukh Felix Matouschek, Andrew Burden, Orel Misan, Federico Fossemo Chandra Merla Jaydeep Pokhariya,

Introductions:  Welcome everyone to the KubeVirt weekly community meeting

• Join the community:

• Add your organization to ADOPTERS.md

• Follow on Twitter

• Community page

• Join as a Github Project Member

• Follow on Mastodon

• Do we have any new members this week that would like to introduce themselves? 

Schedule Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/sig-release/blob/main/releases/v1.8/schedule.md
Upcoming CfP Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Events 

Calendar Check-in: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=kube...@cncf.io

Agenda and Notes:

• Unconference tentative date March 10

•  Help wanted: Decoupling K8s client from kubevirt client:

• POC: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16030

• Kubevirt client-go thread on ML: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/4PVEOrvJ2eI 

• Code Freeze next week
  
  

Open Floor:

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Pull Requests that need attention: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pulls & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pulls

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Mailing list review: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev

• [HCO] New API suggestion: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/vAxDgK3QTqQ 

Zoom chat:
00:09:36 aburden: 433! Too many files

00:14:44 Igor Bezukh: Welcome!