KubeVirt Community Meeting 2026-05-13

[Andrew Burden]

2026-05-13 MINUTES

Recording: https://youtu.be/vULCChsvEXc 

Attendees: Orel Misan,Igor Bezukh, Felix Matouschek  Itamar Holder  Dylan White, Jan Schintag,Thomas-David Griedel, ,bmordeha, dhiller, vladikr, Aseef Imran,Fan Zhang (SW-CLOUD) US, alaypatel07 Sreeja Varnam IN, Stevie Hu , Edward Haas, @Yelsin Sepulveda, Kelson White

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/v1.9/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:

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Open Floor:

• [dhiller] reminder: Quarantine lifecycle timelines and tracking requirements

• PR: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17633

• quarantine tracker issues created:

• sig-compute: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17720

• sig-observability: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17721

• sig-network: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17722

• sig-storage: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17723

• [dhiller] proposal: enable 1.36 lanes to always run: https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/5032

• [Alay] bumping kubernetes deps to 1.36

• Involves bumping go to 1.26

• Need help with a new builder image, reference: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15899 

• WIP PR: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17514/commits 

• [aseef] Providing improved guidelines for PR authors regarding expectations of size, formatting, and structure (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/17781)

• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17782 

• Edward Haas suggested we add a section for VEP PRs needing attention

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

• [cleanup] decouple sig-storage controller: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17568

• Decouple Storage and Network validation from VMI: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17241

• [cleanup] decouple VMExportController: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17304

• Support prefix wildcards in label/annotation propagation https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/17496 

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

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Bug scrub: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue

(/triage {accepted | build-watcher | duplicate | needs-information | not-reproducible | unresolved})

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Flaky test fixes: https://github.com/pulls?q=label%3Akind%2Fflake+repo%3Akubevirt%2Fkubevirt 

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Zoom chat:
00:09:12 Orel: Welcome!

00:09:44 Igor Bezukh: Welcome!

00:11:02 Changlin Hu: Reacted to "Welcome!" with 😃

00:11:06 Changlin Hu: Reacted to "Welcome!" with 😃

00:27:29 xpivarc: +1

00:31:36 Orel: @aseef, please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfyFnWdMSJ8