Hello everyone,

Not everyone was able to attend the summit and even for those of us that did we 
were not able to attend all the sessions related to Infra. I'm hoping this 
thread can help us all make sense of the busy week we just had and give us a 
general sense of the direction for the next 6 months or so of work. I'll try to 
give a high level overview of the topics I was involved in, feel free to ask 
for or add specifics if you think it will be helpful.

The first day of the summit was largely Zuul's day in the spotlight. Corvus had 
an excellent keynote to talk about Zuul. After keynotes were a variety of forum 
sessions that related to Infra team work. 

Storyboard migrations came up. These migrations seem to be going reasonably 
well and we have identified some specific areas to improve like search 
performance and web client deployment improvements.

In the machine learning for CI session we've identified that there are 
individuals interested in doing machine learning on the logs we produce. The 
big barrier there is getting the logs to a location with the appropriate 
hardware and tools for teaching machines what to look for. To start we've 
pointed people at grabbing the logs from our existing logs server to start 
understanding what we collect and doing testing, but we'll need to publish 
somewhere with a bit more hardware power (GPUs) for longer term work.

Doug Hellmann proposed a plan for deprecating python2 within OpenStack. We'll 
need to make sure we can accommodate the needs of that deprecation process on 
the Infra testing platform. We should also keep in mind we ourselves will need 
to move off of python2 and head towards python3.

Days two and three I spent all of my time in the OpenDev conference within a 
conference. Pleia2 did an awesome demo of deploying to "production" starting 
with nothing but a cloud. "Free software needs free tools" by Benjamin Mako 
Hill was probably my favorite talk of the entire event. Explains why the Infra 
team is determined to use free tools to build software.

The OpenDev working sessions were great venues to interact between open source 
communities and other organizations. We share many of the same concerns and 
have to address many similar problems. A lot of time was spent feeling out a 
common vocabulary and constraining the problem space of CI and CD. The 
attendees were happy to use https://openci.io to continue these conversations 
longer term, hope to see you there.

OpenDev also had hands on workshops. Shout out to pabelanger and mnaser who ran 
an excellent zuul workshop.

The fourth and last day of the summit was a busy one for me. Dmsimard and I 
gave an Infra team onboarding session which had great attendance. After that I 
was on a security panel. Then we had a conversation with the Kata team to talk 
about how we can start running Zuul jobs against Kata. Plan there seems to be 
get it started on one of their lower volume repos and start running a job they 
can interact with.

My summit largely ended with the Infra project update that I gave. The last 
sessions I participated in was somewhat of an extension of the Kata discussion 
earlier where we talked about cross community governance between OSF projects. 
Big outcome of this was that we need to communicate but at the same time don't 
be surprised if communicating is difficult. Many of us come from different 
places and don't have the shared OpenStack background to work off of.

This email got long very fast and I feel like I've barely scratched the 
surface. Happy to dig in where people are interested and to hear from others on 
what their experiences and takeaways were.

Thank you,
Clark

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