Welcome to Aviv Caro as new Ceph NVMe-oF lead Reef status: * reef 18.1.3 built, gibba cluster upgraded, plan to publish this week * https://pad.ceph.com/p/reef_final_blockers all resolved except for bookworm builds https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/61845 * only blockers will merge to reef so the release matches final rc Planning for distribution updates earlier in release process: * centos 9 testing wasn't enabled for reef until very late -- partly because of missing python dependencies -- required fixes to test suites of every component so we couldn't merge until everything was fixed * also applies to major dependencies like boost and rocksdb -- boost upgrade on main disrupted testing on other release branches -- build containerization in CI would help a lot here. discussion continues tomorrow in Ceph Infrastructure meeting Improving the documentation/procedure for deploying a vstart cluster: * including installation of dependencies and compilation -- add test coverage on fresh distros to verify that all required dependencies are installed * README.md will be the canonical guide CDS concluded yesterday: * recordings at https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-developer-summit-squid/ * component leads to update ceph backlog on trello