Searchlight at Stein-3 (R-8,7,6)

Yahoo!!! We reached the Stein-3 (Stein R-5) [13] which is a very important milestone [11]. During this week, there are a couple of events (Searchlight related) will happen including:

• Feature freeze: we have some features are being developed and expected to release them at Stein R-1.
• Final release for client libraries: at this point, I can tell there would be no more major changes of the python-searchlightclient
• Stein community goals completed: Searchlight runs tests under Python 3 by default and has a basic framework for pre-upgrade checks.
• Train PTL self-nomination: I would say that I will run for another term as Searchlight PTL in order to build a foundation for the multi-cloud vision of Searchlight.

Following are the major changes we made at Stein-3:

• TC vision reflection [1]: this is a good practice to compare Searchlight vision with the TC vision [12] to make sure the team is going in the right direction which designed by the OpenStack community.
• Replace httplib2 with requests [2]: this is to make the functional tests more stable by tweaking the Elasticsearch setup.
• Add python 3.7 unit test job [6] [7] [8]

And, they are some on-going tasks that we hope to finish in a couple more weeks.

• Docker deployment sample [3]
• Tacker plugin blueprint [4], and implementation [10]
• Multiple OpenStack support [5]

Keep moving forward!!!

References:

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/searchlight/latest/contributor/vision-reflection.html
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/638098/
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/636587/
[4] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/searchlight-specs/specs/stein/tacker-plugin.html
[5] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004840
[6] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/637764/
[7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/640739/
[8] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/640740/
[9] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/640759/
[10] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/636850/
[11] https://releases.openstack.org/stein/schedule.html
[12] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html
[13] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/640759/