# Octant Community Meeting

_This doc is meant to serve as the "one doc to rule them all" for Octant community meetings._

[Join the Octant community meetings every Wednesday at 1PM ET / 10AM PT](https://vmware.zoom.us/j/97746360612?pwd=cUxwWHpYNTV3elVhS3dSd0dETks2Zz09)

Please read and abide by our [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) when attending these meetings.

_You can find recordings of these meetings [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bmigfV0EqQ55lLisHHy2n1MDuRZasrR)._

_If you have anything you'd like to put on the agenda, please do so below for the next meeting:_

__Past meeting notes have been migrated to [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/discussions?discussions_q=category%3A%22Community+Meeting%22).__

## August 4th, 2021 - NO COMMUNITY MEETING

We'll return on August 11th :)
## July 28th, 2021 - [YouTube Stream](https://youtu.be/0WPzTOQQqBo)

### Attendees - Add your name + affiliation (optional)
- David Espejo, VMware
- Liam Rathke, VMware
- Milan Klanjsek, VMware
- Wayne Witzel III, VMware
- Felipe Tovar, VMware
- Kara Yimoyines, VMware
- Luis Enriquez, VMware

### Status updates
- [0.23](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/projects/20) planned for 08/02/2021
- First official adopter organization: [Terasky Ltd.](https://www.terasky.com/)
- Displaying container image manifests [#156](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/issues/156) (Milan)

### Discussion point

* Release notes enhancements (David/Kara)
* Maintainer team will do the effort of adding more context to /octant/changelogs/unreleased to leverage existing automation
* Showing status for all objects (Milan/Felipe)
* Preferences storage (Wayne)
* https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/discussions/2694
### Open Q&A

* Use of [a sanitizer](https://github.com/derailed/popeye) to find deprecated resources in the cluster (David)
* Ability to hide "breadcrumbs"/navigation in plugin pages (Liam)

### Community shoutouts

* Iaroslav Pleten, [first PR](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/pull/2678) to Octant!
## July 21th, 2021 - [YouTube Stream](https://youtu.be/5kJSMc9sNfw)

### Attendees - Add your name + affiliation (optional)
- Liam Rathke, VMware

- Milan Klanjsek, VMware
- Kara Yimoyines, VMware
- Vikram Yadav, VMware
- Luis Enriquez, VMware
- Felipe Tovar, VMware
- David Espejo, VMware
### Status updates
- No community meeting Aug 4th. Still release, but likely Friday (July 30th) before.

### Discussion point

* Octant architecture documentation [#554](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/issues/554) (David)
* Should we start by completing one of the 4 main areas?
* K8s Updates/Subscription
* UI language
* API
* Plugin Manager
* General documentation plan
* David to work on the howtos geared toward users, mostly in the troubleshooting area and how Octant helps in those scenarios:
* Troubleshooting multi-container pod isses
* Plugin creation detailed tutorial
* Storage, PVCs, PVs
* Resource limits
* Network issues
* Plan is to release those howtos/tutorials in the same cadence as the releases
* Add/update the current [Documentation project](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/projects/10) to request help from the maintainers team to update/create more explanation-type documentation (architecture, data flow diagrams, etc)
* Object Status intro and demo [Sam]
* Conditions table demo [wwitzel3]

### Open Q&A

* K8s versions support [#2666](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/issues/2666)

## July 14th, 2021 - [YouTube Stream](https://youtu.be/Acrpwy_5rrg)

### Attendees - Add your name + affiliation (optional)
- Milan Klanjsek, VMware
- David Espejo, VMware
- Kara Yimoyines, VMware
- Wayne Witzel III, VMware
- Liam Rathke, VMware
- Luis Enriquez, VMware

### Status updates
- 0.22 release
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/releases/tag/v0.22.0
### Discussion point

- 0.23 sprint
- Agree on a theme:
- Object Status
- Define 3 sprint goals
- Accurately represent status of objects with respect to kubectl.
- Represent conditions succinctly and use to describe an object status.
- Disable invalid user actions when cluster state is not ready.

Prioritize the [backlog ](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/projects/9)issues for this release, including 3 from the Product Excellence category
### Open Q&A