KubeVirt Community Meeting 2026-03-04
Andrew Burden
2026-03-04 MINUTES
Recording: https://youtu.be/xQAxGeBu21c
Attendees: dhiller, @edwardh , Dylan White Felix Matouschek, Dominik Holler Itamar Holder Ananya Banerjee Nir Dothan C A Fillekes, Ph.D.
Introductions: Welcome everyone to the KubeVirt weekly community meeting
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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:
[dholler] dependency updates kubevirt/kubevirt, follow up to 2025-03-26:
Who is responsible to maintain go.mod in main? https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16172 was ignored for multiple weeks, and https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16928 gets not the help it deserves.
[lyarwood] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16988 - FWIW we did end up looking at this briefly here but the runc CVE isn’t related to KubeVirt.
[dhiller] enforce code freeze by restricting main branch merges to only allow approved-vep labelled PRs
[xpivarc] freeze-exception
[dhiller] implement in 1.9? unconference topic or maybe even release retrospective?
Open Floor:
[lyarwood] Should we hold the v1.8.0 retro before unconference next Monday @ 2pm UTC?
Ritankar self-introduction
https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Aritankarsaha
send to Felix 0xfelix
[lyarwood] kubevirt/kubevirt should approvers also be listed as reviewers?
[lyarwood] This PR has a number of +1 from approvers but others also highlight this might be the opposite of how we should be organising ourselves.
[lyarwood] Looking at sig-compute we currently have 8 approvers and 6 reviewers (includes 2 approvers). Adding approvers to reviewers moves this to 12, removing approvers from reviewers moves this to 4.
[lyarwood] kubevirt/enhancements also desperately needs SIG specific approvers and reviewers
[nirdothan] Discuss OncePerOrdered testing label roadmap initiated a year ago in https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/13786. A new PR is asking to use it https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/16889.
Pull Requests that need attention: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pulls & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pulls
Mailing list review: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev
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})
Flaky test fixes: https://github.com/pulls?q=label%3Akind%2Fflake+repo%3Akubevirt%2Fkubevirt
Zoom chat:
00:09:11 Felix: extended to Mar 8th
00:11:39 Nir Dothan: Felix?
00:12:40 Felix: ?
00:13:54 Nir Dothan: You did some work on the go.mod no?
00:14:53 Felix: go.work.sum yes
00:14:58 Felix: But got no approval permission
00:15:56 Nir Dothan: Replying to "But got no approval ..."
right. Sorry.
00:20:28 Felix: we just need to force someone to do it
00:20:31 Felix: I guess
00:22:20 ritankarsaha: Hey I am Ritankar, a new contributor to Kubevirt, been contributing now for a few days, made a few PRs too.. GitHub at https://github.com/ritankarsaha . PRs at https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Aritankarsaha Can I have the open floor once, to introduce myself
00:23:45 Jed Lejosne: Replying to "Hey I am Ritankar, ..."
Welcome! I added a point to the open floor
00:24:32 ritankarsaha: Replying to "Hey I am Ritankar, ..."
Thanks !!
00:28:39 Vladik Romanovsky: yes! I think we need vep-approved there too
00:28:56 Vladik Romanovsky: at least during the development phase
00:29:10 Jed Lejosne: Reacted to "yes! I think we need..." with 👍
00:31:32 Arnab Nandi: Hello everyone. I am too a new contributor to the kubevirt project. Have some queries for the upcoming GSoC application for kubevirt. Would be great to have the open floor for a minute.
00:31:49 Vladik Romanovsky: yes please :)
00:32:23 Felix: Been busy the last few days so pardon me not answering on kubevirt-dev about the GSoC messages. I saw them and appreciate it, will come back to them
00:33:06 dhiller: welcome ritankar!
00:34:36 ritankarsaha: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Aritankarsaha