Ceph Leadership Team notes 10/25

Hi all, Here are this week's notes from the CLT: * Collective review of the Reef/Squid "State of Cephalopod" slides. * Smoke test suite was unscheduled but it's back on now. * Releases: * 17.2.7: about to start building last week, delayed by a few issues (https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/63257, https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/63305, https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/54169). ceph_exporter test coverage will be prioritized. * 18.2.1: all PRs in testing or merged. * Ceph Board approved a new Foundation member tiers model, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond. Working on implementation with LF. -- dan