2026-05-18 sig-ci weekly meeting - notes

[Daniel Hiller]

2026-05-18 sig-ci weekly meeting

When: Weekly on Mon, 10:00 – 10:30am

Notes: KubeVirt CI SIG meeting notes

Attendees: dhiller, dywhite,

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

• overall rise in sig-compute and sig-storage, somehow expected due to 1.36 failing tests on sig-compute (virtio) and sig-storage (cross-cluster migration)

• [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] prototyping flake-overview skill

• example output here: flake-overview 2026-05-15

• [nirdothan] we don’t yet really see the quarantined tests here do we?

• [dhiller] no we need to make them recognizable

• [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

• 14 recently merged PRs authored by SIG CI (query: is:pr is:merged merged:>=2026-05-11 author:dhiller author:dollierp author:whitedyl org:kubevirt”)

• kubevirt/ci-health#137: feat(skills): enhance with AI4CI knowledge (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1703: Revert centOS 9 bump. (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/ci-health#134: feat: add lane-rate subcommand for testgrid lane failure analysis (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#133: feat(test-failure-rate): prefer periodic lanes (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#132: Add per-k8s-version and per-lane flakiness breakdown to test-rate (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#131: feat: add per-session output isolation for concurrent agent sessions (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#129: feat: add change-relevance subcommand (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#128: feat: add --days flag to test-rate for extended time periods (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5052: ci: make check-provision-k8s-1.36 always run (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#127: feat: add test-rate command for historical test success rates (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/ci-health#126: feat: add container log analysis to analyze-build skill (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5051: Add README documentation for test-subset external plugin (by @Whitedyl)

• kubevirt/kubevirtci#1693: docs: add end-to-end process for updating fedora-with-test-tooling (by @dhiller)

• kubevirt/project-infra#5005: Add periodic job to rotate Grafana prometheus token (by @Whitedyl)

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Action items

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  communication

• 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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