Ceph Leadership Team meeting notes 2023-12-13

Highlights from this week's CLT meeting Release updates: 18.2.1 - QE validation done, gibba lab upgrade complete without issue, LRC ran into issues with unexpected cephadm exception and one monitor down - being investigated with no known impact on services yet 16.2.15 - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/milestone/17 in progress General updates: - Squid kickoff PR(https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53191) going through QE validation across suites, will be merged before the holidays - MDSMap decode issue (18.2.0/1 user-space cephfs clients broken with squid+) has been discovered, CephFS team will work on a plan of action to address it (Venky to send a detailed email to the dev list about the issue) - FYI, a minor change to vstart is being merged https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53393 - Ceph Days NYC being planned by Bloomberg - it will be nice to announce the Squid release at the event (current ETA April 2024) Thanks, Neha