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 ...