Operations & Project Health Meeting - 2024-04-04

Community
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Strengthen the OpenSearch project by addressing maintenance and health opportunities that can enable more contributions.

Scope: Health is a broad spectrum that includes security, developer experience, maintainer experience, quality and usability standards, documentation, community wellness and safety.

Date: Thurs, April 4, 2024
Time: 09:00 AM PT (UTC -7)

Agenda setting:

  • This is a bi-weekly meeting with topics nominated publicly or spilled from the previous meeting.
  • If you have a topic you would like discussed, please comment below
  • At the end, if there is time, we can discuss other topics.

Zoom Meeting link
Meeting ID: 889 2747 8240
Passcode: 760208

Meetup link

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  • Meeting Introduction

  • Wins / Misses

  • Get everyone’s feedback

  • Wheel’spun repo

  • Who they are, what repo they manage, metrics they want to share

  • RFC showcase

  • Go over RFC abstract

  • Topic for discussion (Recommended to have an issue/forum entry)

  • Get recommendation

  • Select volunteers for the next meeting

  • Wheel spin to select repo for next week - https://pickerwheel.com/pw?id=2wFY8 5

  • Closing discussion

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Wins:

  • OSC specs were written in Smithy - moved to Open API - expected outcome = easier for community to make contributions
  • 2.13 Release
  • CPF has closed for OpenSearch Berlin talks
  • Data Prepper 2.7.0 Release
  • OpenSearch Terraform Provider v2.2.1
  • Meeting attendance 18+

Misses:

  • Manual sign off for parts of the release
  • Lack of missses

Repo of the Week: Anomaly Detection

  • Seeing more issues reported in the recent months
  • Two untrained currently - both related to upcoming releases
  • Q: What is happening that causes CI failures?
    • Many issues have been fixed, PRs need to be rebased to pick up the fixes.
  • Q: Thoughts about community participation?
    • Engaged in the college contributor initative program
    • Several issues reports from consumers of the plugin
    • Food for thought: response to issues ‘would you be willing to try to fix this?’ could improve engagement.
    • Pathway to building up maintainers is contributions through issues and pull request
  • Low level of resourcing to this project
    • Kick start public triage low cost way to improve engagement, @Sean Zheng to follow up with @Kris

RFC Discussion

Open Discussion

Wheel Spin:

Documentation presents next session! (cc @hdhalter )

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Meeting Minutes:

Wins/Misses

Wins:

  • OSC specs were written in Smithy - moved to Open API - expected outcome = easier for community to make contributions
  • 2.13 Release
  • CPF has closed for OpenSearch Berlin talks
  • Data Prepper 2.7.0 Release
  • OpenSearch Terraform Provider v2.2.1
  • Meeting attendance 18+

Misses:

  • Manual sign off for parts of the release
  • Lack of missses

Repo of the Week: Anomaly Detection

  • Seeing more issues reported in the recent months
  • Two untrained currently - both related to upcoming releases
  • Q: What is happening that causes CI failures?
    • Many issues have been fixed, PRs need to be rebased to pick up the fixes.
  • Q: Thoughts about community participation?
    • Engaged in the college contributor initative program
    • Several issues reports from consumers of the plugin
    • Food for thought: response to issues ‘would you be willing to try to fix this?’ could improve engagement.
    • Pathway to building up maintainers is contributions through issues and pull request
  • Low level of resourcing to this project
    • Kick start public triage low cost way to improve engagement, @Sean Zheng to follow up with @Kris

RFC Discussion

Open Discussion

Wheel Spin:

Documentation presents next session!