KubeVirt Community Meeting 2025-09-17
Andrew Burden
2025-09-17 MINUTES
Recording: KubeVirt Community Meeting 2025-09-17
Attendees: Jan Schintag, fossedihelm, Lee Yarwood, Andrew Burden, omisan, dhiller, Edward Haas, brianmcarey,Nir Dothan, harshitgupta1337
Introductions: Welcome everyone to the KubeVirt weekly community meeting
Join the community:
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/v1.7/schedule.md
Upcoming CfP Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Events
Agenda and Notes:
[fossedihelm] A release-1.6.1(PATCH) release is scheduled for Fri, 19th 2025
Please prioritise any big fixes beforehand to make it into this release
[omisan] SIG network meeting
Every other Monday.
11:00 UTC
Open Floor:
[Harshit Gupta] Are there tests that fail intermittently in the Kubevirt CI? Is there a retry mechanism to ensure that the CI job doesn’t fail due to flaky tests?
Can you share a link?
Issue to be created on kubevirt/kubevirt
[aburden] For those interested in contributing but don’t know where to start, there are currently lots of good first issues in our user guide repo
[dhiller] any issue with the 1.34 lanes? Otherwise we would make them required aka optional: false. Example sig-compute
[jed] let’s do it! /cc me I’ll approve on Monday
[dhiller] will do!
[fossedihelm] Please delay until 1.6.1 (this Friday)
Pull Requests that need attention: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pulls & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pulls
[aburden] Adding lightly formatted notes from our 1.7 unconference: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pull/417
[ndothan] Requesting core approval https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15303
Mailing list review: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev
A new blog about building VM golden images with Packer: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/6Ey3fzGejw8
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:
00:08:57 Andrew: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xkhG--2btgqTfvGBGu5BxnsesfgeCniaQg3yoZdzWyg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.6i45x59hatn6
00:11:37 xpivarc: packed presence at KubeCon NA
00:15:55 xpivarc: 5-8% failure rate
00:18:49 Andrew: Thanks jed
00:19:02 Jed: Reacted to "Thanks jed" with 😉
00:26:13 lyarwood: Nope not for me
00:26:24 Jed: Your elocution is perfect