2025/12/01

• [Radek] Umbrella kick-off PR – volunteers?

• First PR with feature bit; would prefer earlier than later

• Seeking volunteers

• The process is quite documented – please see doc/dev/release-checklists.rst

• [jmundack] Is there a process for updating Ceph dependencies?

• eg: https://github.com/ceph/rocksdb - is 7 years behind? Are we missing BFs, CVEs etc? (forked from https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb with recent merges last week)

• https://github.com/ceph/c-ares (9 years old) - forked from https://github.com/scylladb/c-ares (9 years old) which is forked from https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares (recent merge 2 months ago)

• Some forked repos we have are very old; is there a process to maintain them?

• [Greg] Rocksdb is actually only 3 years old; process is that someone submits a PR

• We could use the kickoff PR to update some things

• Laura suggests adding this to the kickoff PR documentation

• See https://github.com/ceph/ceph/tree/main/src for a general picture of the submodule dates

• Mark N: updating rocksdb has been an organic process in the past, but would be good if we had a determined schedule

• Radek: updating rocksdb is trivial; we just need to make sure to take the latest publicly-released version

• Biggest thing is testing

• Mark N: not always trivial; we had some customizations that we need to take into account

• CDM (EMEA) this Wednesday! Please add your topics to the agenda: https://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/wiki/CDM_03-DEC-2025

• [Ilya] Bogus "<Sender> via Dev"/"<Sender> via ceph-users" emails after mailing list migration to AWS

• David will look into it

• [DavidG] Lab shutdown status

• VPN is running.  Infra team can begin deploying services.

• Definitely Jenkins builders

• Probably teuthology runs

• [Yuri] v18.2.8 validation email was sent out

• Infrastructure issues in runs; dev leads should review closely

• Need to decide on whether to fix issues in suite

• Dev leads will take this week to review results, then we can make decisions next week