Minutes from today's meeting of the Ceph Steering Committee:


  • The proposal is to continue the discussion on the PR

  • Permissions to add/update "Labels" in redmine? Requires user to be admin/owner. Should PTLs be a part of those roles?
  • The issue is custom fields concept in Redmine that can only be changed/added by a Redmine superuser (or admin)
  • Not a usual event (few times a year across components), just ask existing admins to create the labels for you

  • New Business
  • Debate on:
  • Election votes are not public (implementation of the process can be challenging)
  • Several concerns about whether that would be possible or not


  • Can we fork OpenKMIP/PyKMIP: A Python implementation of the KMIP specification into Ceph GitHub? We need it for example in nvmeof gw, and it is currently unmaintained so we suggest to do it under ceph 
  • There's no community formed for those unmaintained projects.
  • Practical risks: security, no new Python versions support, etc
  • Used by SMB containers, nvmeof and probably by rgw
  • No clear forks with strong community
  •    There was no immediate conclusion; concerns remain about what the fork implies
  • Simply having a fork doesn't imply a particular maintenance level
  • Need to revisit topic again later

  • Your Name on behalf of This List is a requirement
  • Not clear if this is a real requirement for mailing lists
  • No way disable receiving multiple copies sent to multiple lists
  •       the alternative seems to be moving back the service to self-managed solution
  • Lab network policies can prevent from running a mail server on their infrastructure.

   New Ceph Security Working Group approval 
  • Action item: Create a motion in Redmine