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# bug-triage notes

This document is meant to collect issues/PRs milestoned with 1.4 and tracked by CI team for release cycle v1.4.0. The table below is inspired by: https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/80/views/10


## Overview

The bug triage team members are responsible to make sure that Issues and Pull Requests (PRs) which are targeted for the ongoing release cycle are dealt with in a timely fashion.


## Responsibilities

As a bug triage team member, the following activities can be classified as responsibilities:

1. Listing open issues and PRs targeted for the ongoing release cycle
1. Communicating with relevant assignees, owners of issues/PRs to get the status
1. Updating issues/PRs, clarifying situations, enabling next level decision making



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## Tracking Issues/PRs table

Repo query for: [open issues](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av1.4)

|   | Title                                                                                                    | Type  |Responsible | Notes                  | Status |
|-- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | ------| --------   | -----------------------| -------|
| 1 | [Use suffixes consistently in API constants](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7611) | Issue |      | Fixed in [8030](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8030) | **Closed**   |
| 2 | [switch machine controller tests that use SSA to envtest and drop disableNodeLabelSync](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7964) | Issue    |      | Fixed in [8044](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8044) | **Closed**   |
| 3 | [MachineDeployment refs and ownerRefs are not upgraded after CAPI upgrade with apiVersion bump](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/6778) | Issue    |      | Fixed in [7995](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7995) | **Closed**   |
| 4 | [Umbrella issue for In place propagation of changes affecting Kubernetes objects only proposal implementation](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7731) | Issue    |      | multiple fixes, please see issue itself | **Closed**   |
| 5 | [Umbrella issue for Label Sync Between Machines and underlying Kubernetes Nodes proposal implementation](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7730) | Issue    |      | multiple fixes, please see issue itself | **Closed**   |
| 6 | [External variable discovery](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7985) | Issue    |      | umbrella issue, tracked | Open   |
| 7 | [CAPI controllers should keep ownerRefs on the current apiVersion](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/7224) | Issue    |      | Fixed in [PR](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/8256) | **Closed**   |




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Repo query for: [open PRs](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3Av1.4)
 
|   | Title                                                                                                    | Type |Responsible | Notes                  | Status |
|-- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | -----| --------   | -----------------------| -------|
| 1 | [⚠️ apply node.cluster.x-k8s.io/uninitialized during machine creation](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7993) | PR   |      |  | **Merged**   |
| 2 | [MachinePool: automatically bump apiVersions like in our other controllers](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/pull/7995) | PR   |      |  | **Merged** |






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## External links:

* k/k release team, Bug triage handbook: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/release-team/role-handbooks/bug-triage/README.md