Hi all, Here is what was discussed in today's meeting: 2025/09/15 - Formalising release approvals - dev leads pls review and comment => https://pad.ceph.com/p/upstream_release_approvals - Motivation: We've been ignoring certain tests (nvmeof) in the release approval cycle - Yuri summarized list of approvals that we need in link above - Leads: please add and remove things as needed (do extra suites need to be executed for releases?) - Answers needed in next 2-3 days; leads please take a look and update the etherpad (add name next to "Reviewed by") - Pasting Tentacle Updates question from last week - Will Tentacle release GA be based on RC0 (current RC), or will there be an RC1 before GA? - Upstream is working on RC1 - RC1 will be aligned with the tip of Tentacle - If RC1 is planned, when will it be built? - What is the expected timeline for RC1 and Tentacle GA? - RC1 Readiness - Core/RADOS: 2 outstanding FastEC PRs - 1. EC fixpack 3 - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/64917 - 2. tentacle: Optimized Erasure Coding - Fixpack 2 - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/65411 - RGW: 1 PR https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/64862 - All other components seem ready - on bookworm: Need to follow up with Dan and David - are we agreed not to block on ubuntu 24 or el10 support? - nvmeof updates release process to align with ceph release process - Tentacle GA discussion if not this week, I think we keep working on it ... -- Laura Flores She/Her/Hers Software Engineer, Ceph Storage <https://ceph.io> Chicago, IL lflores@ibm.com | lflores@redhat.com <lflores@redhat.com> M: +17087388804