# Velero Community Meeting and Open Discussion Notes - Archive Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
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<summary>Archived Content</summary>

_This doc is meant to serve as the "one doc to rule them all" for Velero community meetings and open discussions._

_Join our [Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/projectvelero) to get updates on the project and invites to community meetings._

_**Community meeting schedule**:_

- Bi-weekly community meeting alternating every week between Beijing Friendly timezone and EST/Europe Friendly Timezone (See [calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=[e-mail]))
- Join us at [Zoom Link](https://broadcom.zoom.us/j/94416678753?pwd=YkptN1k4M2lrUTdGbitNTmorODcvUT09)
- Beijing/US friendly - we start at 8am Beijing Time(bound to CST) / 8pm EDT(7pm EST) / 5pm PDT(4pm PST) / 2am CEST(1am CET) - [Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=09:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)
- US/Europe friendly - we start at 10am ET(bound to ET) / 7am PDT(7am PST) / 4pm CEST (3pm CET) / 10pm/11pm CST - [Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=17:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)

_You can find recordings of these meeting [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bmigfV0EqQRysvqvqOtRNk4L5S7uqwM)._

Archives of older meeting notes
* https://hackmd.io/@jonasrosland/SyV22skpL
* https://hackmd.io/ukRqw4IxRNeXFwoYmp4iJQ
* https://hackmd.io/or-hIzhbRwaB-vjsxs-qnw - Archive 2022
* [Achived notes 2021](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Velero-Community-Meeting-and-Open-Discussion-Notes--2021)

Add your request, question or suggestion to [our issue list](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues)

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

## RoadMap - on-going
Link: https://hackmd.io/iQy7XmPOT0y8lrCuAFL4PQ

# Apr 24, 2024 (China/US)
The new notes is here: https://hackmd.io/bxrvgewUQ5ORH10BKUFpxw

# Apr 16, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
-
### Status
- Scott
- Design PR for multithreaded backup: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7628
- Additional responses to review comments
- I'm going to update the PR this week
- More details around the need to fall back to a compatibility mode if v2 plugins are present (backup data integrity concerns)
- A section describing exactly how to upgrade a v1 or v2 plugin to v3 with some comments around the timeline necessary for this
- Update the ItemBlock processing detailed design to account for OrderedResources

### Discussion topics

- Mateus
- I do not understand what is missing here https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6190
- Can someone please update issue with requiered actions and when it can be resolved?

# Apr 9, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu(Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)

### Status
1.14.0: FC to be delayed 1~2 weeks (originally planned on Apr. 11)

- Yonghui
- Data mover micro service design is ready for review https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7576
- Daniel
- Implementation for restore volume info
- Xun
- Weekly support
- [Data-only retore discussion document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zlVHEhR5bXyEiLttb6WXUovsE3qfDt58_Pv9Xue_144/edit#heading=h.kt0totdmbnpe)
- Shubham
- Extension of Volume Policies design merged
- Working on implementation PR
- Ming
- [Fix data mover cancle bug](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7611)
- Scott
- Design PR for multithreaded backup: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7628
- Responded to review comments on the PR in detail
- Highlights of a couple issues:
- If not all BIAs are v3, we must fall back to v2 and use a single worker, since we cannot guarantee related items will be in the same ItemBlock, which could result in two related items being backed up in parallel rather than in the same block -- for example a Pod and its PVC, which would break hooks.
- For v3 plugins, even with the new GetAdditionalItems func, the existing Execute() call should still return these, since otherwise it would break backwards compatibility. A v3 plugin that did not do this, when registered as a v2 plugin for an older velero would fail to return related items. The right way to handle this in a v3 plugin is to have an internal helper func to get the list, called by both API methods. Plugin developers will have examples in the Velero code, since all internal BIA plugnis will be upgraded to v3 as part of this implementation.

- Qi
- Enhance restore exec hooks

### Discussion topics
- Shubham:
- Fix approach for vsc-csi plugin issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/226#discussion_r1470604700

# Apr 2, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)

### Status
- Shubham:
- Extension of Volume Policy Design
- Need another Approval, Impl PR this week
- Daniel:
- Restore volume info design:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7610
- Scott:
- Working on design PR for multithreaded backup performance enhancement, PR later this week.

### Discussion topics

# Mar 27, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang(Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin (Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status

1.14.0: All 1.14 candidates are cleared. FC on Apr. 11

- Daniel
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6478
- Working on the PoC and Design for restore volume-info
- Xun
- Work on data-only restore design.
- Work on merging CSI plugin into Velero.

- Yonghui
- Work on design for data mover micro service https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7198

- Shubham
- Updated Extend Volume Policies design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- Updated Implementation details to use VolumeHelper interface
- PR reviews
- Ming Qiu
- [Fix snapshot leak and add fail fast support for backup](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7558)

- Danfeng
- 1.14 test cases and test plan
- Wenkai Yin
- Improve the concurrency of PVBs for different pods (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6676)
### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- [The issue](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7543) about v1.9.x aws-plugin working with IBM cloud storage
- Does it impact RH's customer? Is it covered in the pipeline of OADP?
- Tiger - no customer yet, Mateus (Red Hat) [offered to help tests and replicated the issue](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7543#issuecomment-2015133245), that's all.
- manual tests as of now from dev side, checking qe
- Xun
- [Data-only restore design](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7481): discuss about the scope and implementation.

# Mar 19, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Sachin Singla (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)

### Status

### Discussion topics
- We need long term strategy to host community to make it possible without any Broadcom employees attending.
- Maybe we can use k8s zoom? https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/comms/zoom/

# Mar 13, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)

### Status
1.13.1: RC1 on 11th, will GA on 13rd. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.13.1-rc.1
1.14.0: Finish 2nd round reviewing candidates, [deferred ones](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1.14-candidate+label%3Adefer-candidate+)

- Yonghui
- Work on design for data mover micro service https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7198
- Xun
- Work on data-only restore desigin
- Ming Qiu
- [Make parallel restore parameter for Kopia uploader configurable](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7512)
- [DataDownload fails during restore](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7388)
- Wenkai Yin
- Prepare the v1.13.1 release
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Updated VolumePolices extension design implentation section

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Go over the [remaining candidate issues](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.14-candidate+-label%3Adefer-candidate)

- 2 issues that seem uncertain:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6142
- Tiger - recreate option to ExistingResourcePolicy. After going through the user needs from other contributors, the case we want covered is restoring in-place pvc mounted oi deployment, simple recreate doesn't solve. Covered by https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7481
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7345
- Scott
- Just a general note: now that the US is on Daylight savings time, the US/Europe meeting will be one hour earlier in Beijing time (what's now 10 AM Eastern US time was 9 AM Eastern US time last week). It will now be 10PM Beijing time rather than 11PM.
- Tiger - for Shawn/Wenkai
- Discussions around [download server api](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344#discussion_r1479158883)
- aggregation api vs ingress+service

# Mar 5, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang(Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
### Status

### Discussion topics
- Raghu
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7359
- Repository maintenance jobs
- Existing resource policy "replace"
- [Hackmd](https://hackmd.io/KKWcslVSR3yysufvC76MHg#Solutions-for-usecase)
- Daniel
- Handling parallel CR via "MaxConcurrentReconciles" in controller
- Tiger
- Shawn joined so we can chat about Velero Download Server API?
- to discuss:
- aggregation api: how to support installing multiple Velero
- Aggregated API libraries and tools are alpha and have not had updates since 2022 AFAICT.
- ingress: Introduce different styles of API: currently, all Velero APIs are k8s style; the ingress approach introduces different style of APIs
- kubectl cp: no additional rbac code, not compatible with current downloadRequest, [breaks replicated](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344#discussion_r1511480624)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6167
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344

# Feb 28, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Qi Xu(Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)

### Status
1.12.4: RC1 on 26th and plan to GA on 28th
1.14.0: Finish 1st round reviewing candidates, [leftovers](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1.14-candidate+-label%3Adefer-candidate)

- Yonghui
- PRs for several 1.14 items
- [Data mover backup node selection design](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7383)
- [Data mover backup node selection implementation](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7437)

- Daniel
- Review PRs, Designs
- Triaging/Working on issues targeting v1.14
- Scott
- Created 1.14 candidate issue for backup performance (note: design only for 1.14, impl begins in 1.15): https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7474

- Ming Qiu
- Repository maintenance job [design](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7375) and [implemention](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7451)

- Xun Jiang
- Work on only restore volume data design
- Qi
- Implement restore finalizing controller
- Fix issues with metrics
- Danfeng
- Add kubeadm pipeline with zfs
- WenkaiYin
- Review PRs and designs
- Shubham
- Updated Extension of Volume Policy Design (non-goals and future scope)
- Will work on velero controller changes need for https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/226
- Tiger
- Updating [Add support for delete and recreate option to ExistingResourcePolicy feature #6142](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6142)
- Will need more agreement on [Design: Velero client download APIServer #7344](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344) before I can make progress, will try ask Shawn to join upcoming meetings

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Can we set node-agent's default QoS to Best Effort? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7391
- OADP docs for limit and requests: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/backup_and_restore/application_backup_and_restore/installing/about-installing-oadp.html
- Daniel
- The staus of Shubham's design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- Ming Qiu
- Repository maintenance job [design](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7375)

# Feb 20, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
### Status
- Shubham:
- Working on clarifying some details/address review feedback regarding the snapshot action in Extending the Volume Policy Design
- Tiger: [Added descriptive restore error for terminating namespace timeout](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7424)

### Discussion topics

# Feb 6, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja(Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
### Status
Beijing team will be on holiday 10th~17th Feb. We won't have the Beijing timezone community meeting on 14th Feb.

- Daniel
- Triaged the 1.14 candidates
- I wanna confirm we reach concensus around Shubham's design about the volume policy, but we should make sure the code is not scattered in the implementation, we can work together.

- Wes
- @Jiaolin Yang just wondering if you have a sense for when 1.12.4 may release.

### Discussion topics

# Jan 31, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
1.13.0: GA on 29th Jan. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.13.0
1.14: Collecting requirements and reviewing candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1.14-candidate
Updated the wiki page with the proposed timeline: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.14-Roadmap

Beijing team will be on holiday 10th~17th Feb. We won't have the Beijing timezone community meeting on 14th Feb.

- Yonghui
- Investigate & discuss 1.14 candidates
- Daniel
- Fixing issue 7302 (support explicit credential when IRSA is configured)
- Triage 1.14 candidates.
- Xun
- Triage 1.14 candidates.
- Triage issue 7149
- Wenkai Yin
- Upgrade the versions of go-plugin related libs/tools
- Danfeng
- Cover AWS IRSA scenario in nightly
- Ming Qiu
- [Designing the repository maintenance](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7291)
- [Fix default BSL setting bug](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7359)
- Shubham
- Added Draft PRs for 2 bugs:
- [Create a warning while restoring backup created via Restic/Kopia (FS Backup)](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7365 )
- [Backup is marked as waitingForPluginOperationsPartiallyfailed when VolumeSnapshotContent has an error](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7356)
- Will work on feedback for VolumePolicies extension design:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- Tiger
- Wrote some plans for [Velero NFS/PVC/Local File System as target Support](https://hackmd.io/OkccRk_4R8i-Mn3InUiqUA)
- Working on [Design: Velero client download APIServer](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344)
- [E2E updates](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7353)

- Qi
- Design for adding the finalization phase to the restore workflow（https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7317）

### Discussion topics

Discuss VolumePolicies extending design for volume backup https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- Give users a simple way to specify the backup type per volume
- Give users a simple way to specify the global backup type if per volume type is not specified
- If neither per volume type or global type is specified, there should be a global priority definition

Volume policies will eventually replace all the existing options:
- Any functionalities and flexibilites of the current options should be eventually be there for volume policies
- At present, if volume polcies is specified, do we need to visit the existing options since the 1st version may not have the full functionalties or flexibilties?
- If the new policy needs to work together with existing options, we may need some validations

<wes> - moved long term roadmap to https://hackmd.io/iQy7XmPOT0y8lrCuAFL4PQ
* see above, waiting on Pradeep to approve
* I can add maintainers as editors

# Jan 23, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)

### Status

- Mateus:
- would like reviews in my PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7194
- Tiger
- Working on [Design: Velero client download APIServer #7344](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7344)
- Trying out full e2e suite
- some internal cases to skip
- Daniel
- Will tag rc2 this week
- Support additional BSL for IRSA
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7302
- Shubham:
- Working on Volume Policies extension design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- Orlin
- New invites soon for Community Meetings
- Anyone planing to visit KubeCon in Paris? Meetup? Dinner? Drinks?
### Discussion topics

- Wes
- I created a 1.14 wiki https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.14-Roadmap
- v1.14-candidate tagging is happening now correct? Due by when?
- RoadMap updates from Pradeep, summary.
- Shubham:
- Need reviews on Volume Policies extension Design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956

# Jan 17, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Qi Xu(Broadcom)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.12: 1.12.3 released on Jan. 9. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.12.3
1.13: Preparing RC, RC is on hold for blocking issue fixes
1.14: Collecting requirements, candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1.14-candidate

- Shubham:
- Updated the Volume Policy extension design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956

### Discussion topics
- Tiger
- [Do not attempt restore resource with no available GVK in cluster #7322](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7322)
- should resolves [EnableAPIGroupVesions test failed due to restore hung at in-progress state with informer cache enabled #7319](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7319)
- Do you think is the right approach?
- Some CI errors to fix

Create issue for https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1705316429044759 and make it in r13.0-rc2

# Jan 9, 2024 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang(Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shahaf Bahar (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware/Broadcom)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)

### Status
Plan patch release 1.12.3-rc.1 is out
1.13-rc.1 will be out this week, GA in Jan.

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7271
- We should fix the inconsistency
- Let's enable it by default

- Shahaf
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7045
- Addressing this PR and explain why it is a real bug(not critical).

- Shubham
- Working to update Design for extending volume policies with fs-backup and snapshot option

# Jan 3, 2024 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- (Broadcom)
- Ming Qiu(Broadcom)
- Orlin Vasilev(VMware/Broadcom)

### Status
Prepare the 1.13 RC.
Plan patch release 1.12.3.

### Discussion topics

# Dec 20, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Xun Jiang (Broadcom)
- Ming Qiu (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Jiaolin Yang (Broadcom)
- Wenkai Yin(Broadcom)
- Qi Xu(Broadcom)

### Status
v1.12.3: Planning v1.12.3 around mid of Jan, issue list https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Atarget%2F1.12.3+
v1.13: Complete manual test this week, RC will be around beginning of Jan
v1.14: Start to plan soon, candidate list https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A1.14-candidate

### Discussion topics
- Ensure recoverabilty B&R during Velero restart: should PRs [#7091](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7091) and [#7130](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7130) both cherry pick to V1.12.3, #7130 could fix issue [#7170](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7170)

# Dec 12, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev - [e-mail]
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Daniel Jiang(Broadcom) - [e-mail]
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shashank Singh (Microsoft)

### Status
- Daniel - starting the FC, please refrain from merging PRs to main branch before RC and cut the release branch. RC1 targeting early Jan 2024, and we wanna make sure we deliver v1.13 before Chinese New year (early Feb 2024)

- Mateus
- PRs open
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7173
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7194
### Discussion topics
- Orlin - need to update the community meeting with new zoom link
- Anshul - Current state of parallelization/ perf efforts (Improve CSI Snapshotting Performance #6165) -> Breaking it into smaller items like -> Make BackedUpItems thread safe #7148
- Orlin - we skip Dec 26th

# Dec 6, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (Broadcom)
- Daniel Jiang (Broadcom)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (Broadcom)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
### Status
1.12.2: Released on Nov 27, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.12.2
1.13: FC will be commenced soon, working on several opening PRs

- Yonghui
- PR review
- FC targeting PRs
- Daniel
- issue fix, PR review for FC
- Danfeng
- Preparing v1.13 test plan
- Tiger
- Addressing some reviews feedback Add --skip-immediately to schedule CLI/API, and related to server, install commands #7169 https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7169
- talk to shubham

### Discussion topics

# Nov 28, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees

- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
-

### Status
- Daniel and other VMware developers
- Working on v1.13 issues towards FC. There's a little overhead caused by acquisition, and it may delay for a few days.
- Tiger
- [Design #6517: Schedule Skip Immediately Config #6829](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829) got acks so working on implementation
- Anshul
- PR Reviews (hooks status field)
- Bug fixes (Resource modifier)
- Ensure recoverability of backup/restore from WaitingForPluginoperations state during velero server restart

### Discussion topics
- Michal
- velero-plugin-for-vsphere without CSI and Supervisor Cluster
- Were there any designs that were allowing to run Velero without Supervisor Cluster scenario (and without CSI)
- How it's being tested in community

- Daniel
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7143
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7141
- "sparse" option
- Raghu has some comment
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7125
- adding data mover info in "backup describe"
- Scott has some question regarding the size under "data movement" section.

# Nov 22, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Alex Parker (Replicated)
- Salah Al Saleh (Replicated)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Daniel Jiang(Vmware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin ( Red Hat )
- Qi Xu(VMware)
### Status
1.12.2: A RC build has been created https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.12.2-rc.1
1.13.0: FC will be on Dec 1st

- Yonghui
- CSI data mover backup describe https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7125
- Danfeng
- Performance test CI
- E2E test for delete retain PV scenario
- Xun
- Backup volume info: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7100
- Ming
- [Ensure recoverability of data mover](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7130)
- [Allow sparse for restore](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6664)

- Qi Xu
- Add hook execution status to backup/restore describer
- Tiger
- Finished design PR for schedule unpause https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829

### Discussion topics
Discuss NFS support requirements ( <wes> please update permissions so others can view )
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x_6NF5Eah7fqZ-mtIlDfiUt69-kLCx_MXRURLs7LeXU/edit?usp=sharing

# Nov 14, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
- Scott
- PR review/discussion
- Some early work around parallel item backup design, nothing to present yet.
- Shubham
- Design target for v1.13 https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- PR reviews
- Tiger
- Kubecon last week
- working on https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6517

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Delaying the v1.13 for 1 week (FC 1st Dec)
- Check the status of the issues
- Beijing team need to review the design for issue

- The PR for deprecation process, Wes to resolve the comments?:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5532
- Shubham will update it
- The issue 7085, won't fix?
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/7085
- Redhat folks will ping the author to clarify the requirement in the issue. Keeping things as-is is probably good enough.

- Wes
- Tiger and I met w/ folks from Replicated after they missed the community call. So now they how/where to join and will be joining next week. :)

- Wes
- Discussion w/ Bradd and Pradeep. We all thought it would be helpful for PM and engineering to use and update a longer running roadmap 6-18 months out. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Roadmap#velero-roadmap

# Nov 8, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (Vmware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)

1.12.1 GA on Oct. 25.
1.13 Will reach FC on Nov. 24.

- Yonghui
- Node-agent concurrency
- Design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6950
- Implementation: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7059
- The naming discussion: nondeAgentConfig->loadConcurrency vs. nodeAgentConfig->concurrency
- Xun
- Backup Volume information metadata
- Design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6962
- Interface implementation: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7070
- Ming Qiu
- [Data mover fail early](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7052)
- Velero Performance test enhancemant
- Wenkai Yin
- Working on 1.13 issues: [#6857](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6857), [#6849](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6849)
- Qi Xu
- Fix inconsistent behavior of Backup and Restore hook execution

### Discussion
- Xun
- Propose to delete `pkg/generated` directory in v1.13:
- Issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6190
- Slack: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1699276218067089
- **Decision:** we can deprecate it first (keep it updated), and follow the guideline to remove it (We'll merge 5532, probably n+2) communicate the deprecation via the releasenote or code comment
- Daniel
- We may consider delay 2 or 3 weeks for the FC and GA milestones, will check again about the issues planned in v1.13, and make decision about the milestones

# Oct 31, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
### Status
- Anshul
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6860 discussed with lyndon, daniel.
### Discussion
- Daniel:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6950
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
# Oct 25, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
1.12.1: RC on 20th and will GA on 25th. Release notes https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.12.1-rc.1

- Yonghui
- Node-agent concurrency design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6950
- Data mover preserve local snapshot design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/7002
- Daniel
- Bumped up the AWS SDK to v2 in AWS plugin and velero, please help verify to make sure it doesn't break your use cases
- gcr.io/velero-gcp/velero:main
- gcr.io/velero-gcp/velero-plugin-for-aws:main
- Review PRs
- I can't create channel in k8s slack for discussing the parallel CR processing
- [External projects (ones not owned by a Kubernetes SIG) may have a maximum of two channels, usually #project or #project-users, and #project-dev.](https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/comms/slack/#requesting-a-channel:~:text=External%20projects%20(ones%20not%20owned%20by%20a%20Kubernetes%20SIG)%20may%20have%20a%20maximum%20of%20two%20channels%2C%20usually%20%23project%20or%20%23project%2Dusers%2C%20and%20%23project%2Ddev.)
- [Special accommodations will be made where necessary.](https://www.kubernetes.dev/docs/comms/slack/#requesting-a-channel:~:text=Special%20accommodations%20will%20be%20made%20where%20necessary.)

- Xun
- Volume backup information design: [#6962](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6962)
- Triage v1.13 issues: [#6376](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6376), [#6190](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6190)
- Danfeng
- Performance test automation
- Document of E2E test execution
- Wenkai Yin
- Bump version of Azure SDK to support Prem SSD V2
- Review PRs
- Ming Qiu
- Velero uploader configuration API design and implementation
- Tiger
- Rebase PR for s3 credentials profile https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6996
### Discussion topics
- Daniel:
- Revisit the v1.13 candidates: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.13-candidate
- [Only if we have time]: Discuss with RH folks about the problems we have in v1.13 planning

- Wes:
- Reviews requested for
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6995
-
- Tiger:
- Extend [download server for velero client](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6167) issue to object storage plugins?
- remove need for cacert/insecure flags on client side for s3/gcp/azure
- potentially NFS local-volume-provider plugin can adopt?
# Oct 17, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status

- Shubham
- PR for Extending VolumePolicies feature design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6956
- bug fixes and reviews

- Anshul
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6860 ([Draft] Improve CSI Snapshotting Performance #6860). RFC
- JSON Merge patch PR Review.
- Azure MSI Support fix
- Tiger
- community slack
- reviews

### Discussion topics

- Raghu

- Any reason not to enable CSI client config (``velero client config set features=EnableCSI``)? This shows CSI detail in backup describe output. Discussin about CSI flag requirement for server: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6694
- Filter emptyDir volumes. It is merged. Will it be part of 1.12.1? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6863
- OIDC Auth issue. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6947
- Snapshot data mover summary is not present in describe details.
- "sparse" restore option: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6664
- Tiger
- [Replicated email](https://hackmd.io/r0UwzYqzRwGiz4WBovh9yg)

# Oct 11, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang(VMware)
### Status
- Yonghui
- Data mover backup spread evenly across nodes https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6926
- VGDP concurrent number per node https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6663
- Scott
- Awaiting feedback/merge:
- Restore performance improvements: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6723 (High priority because we have users affected by this)
- GenerateName retry: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6830 (High priority because it's impacting our performance testing)
- For both of the above, I'd also like to consider adding them to 1.12.1, since they're affecting end users and testing
- Shubham
- Awaiting feedback:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6914
- Design for Extending VolumePolicies Action
- Xun
- Triage v1.13 issues.
- Design for recording the Volume backup information into a new metadata file in the backup repository
- Wenkai Yin
- Fix Azure plugin related issues
- Review PRs
- Tiger
- Hoping to get some feedback: Schedule unpaused config https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829
- Review PRs
- Community slack
- gcp plugin regression https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/158 (merged)
- ready for review - cp PR to release-1.8 https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/159

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- A reasonable name for VGDP, features requireing this:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6663
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6664
- Scott
- Consider https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6751 for 1.12.1 as well

- Tiger
- We are [drafting email](https://hackmd.io/r0UwzYqzRwGiz4WBovh9yg) to reach out to Replicated for collaboration on local-volume-provider

# Oct 3, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Sachin Singla (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)

### Status
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Started design for extending VolumePolicies Actions
- Anshul
- Design Reviews for Resource Modifier enhancements
- CSI snapshotting improvements - initial draft.
- Tiger
- Addressing design feedback: [Schedule Unpaused Triggers config](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829). Drafting implementations
- Community support
- Website edits
### Discussion topics

# Sept 27, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (Vmware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)

### Status
v1.12 GA on Sept 22.
v1.13 Continue to review cantidate issues, more issues are moved to 1.13 and assigned.

- Yonghui
- 1.13 issues investigation and fix
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6872
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6875
- Xun
- Triage 1.13 issues
- Weekly community support

- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Started design for extending VolumePolicies Actions
- Tiger
- Addressing design feedback: [Schedule Unpaused Triggers config](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829). Drafting implementations
- Community support

- Ming Qiu
- [Add volume types filter in resource policies](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6863)
- Danfeng
- Dual-stack testing

- Wenkai Yin
- Replace the base image with paketobuildpacks

- Qi Xu
- Add data mover metrics to Grafana dashboard
- Address the issue with backup last status metrics

- Daniel
- Bump up aws sdk to v2 in the AWS plugin
- The breakchange that the plugin will not support AWS signature version 1. (v4 only)
### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Sync up the NFS backup store discussions
- Two directions
- Support https://github.com/replicatedhq/local-volume-provider
- Issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6197
- Velero's final solution
- NFS mount and expose: avoid the Velero server/node-agent to restart whenever a new BSL is created
- Download request: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6167. Separate http server/aggregation server/intermidate data place (CM)? Meet compliance requirements, IP, port, authentication, etc.
- Resources persistency: comply with the final Unified Data Repository targets
- Tiger
- We are [drafting email](https://hackmd.io/r0UwzYqzRwGiz4WBovh9yg) to reach out to Replicated for collaboration on local-volume-provider
- Has Orlin feedback
- [Slides Demo of local-volume-provider](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v5VqceZ1_ue4m_OhoFFNSvbcOgW-MEjUQMpTaKk4y8k/edit?usp=sharing)
- Scott
- What is the review status of https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6680 ?
- Looks like most feedback has been addressed.
- There were some additional documentation -- at least some of it is addressed, but I'm not sure whether anything else is needed. Would be good for anyone who requested additional documentation to do a final pass to see if it's all addressed.
- Once this merges, we'd like to cherrypick this to release-1.12 so we can get it into a 1.12 patch release, as discussed on previous community meetings.

- Wes re: v1.12.1
- Any thoughts on when the community would release 1.12.1?
- Projection is end of October

- Daniel (optional)
- Discuss about the concurrent backup/restore
- Thoughts about deploying another velero instance?
- Expectation for v1.13
- Any ideas/PoC done by redhat?

Note: Start from Sep 29th (this Friday) it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in China. BJ team will be off and will be back on Oct 10th.

# Sept 19, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)

### Status
v1.12: RC2 released today

- Scott
- PR review
- PR code standards update based on discussion last week
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6844
- Fix for generateName uniqueness bug
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6807
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6830 (currently draft until I do some backup/restore testing with it)
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Tiger
- PR Reviews
- Implement [Design #6517: Schedule Unpause Trigger Config #6829](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6829)
- want feedback on default unpause behavior
- prior to PR: unpause start backup based on status.lastBackupTime. Move to lastUnpauseTime?

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Moving away from distroless as base image (1.12.x, 1.13.0)
- Considering delaying v1.13.0 milestones
- Tiger
- Propose getting official support and testing for https://github.com/replicatedhq/local-volume-provider
- Satisfy requirements for backing up to local PVC and NFS for BSL
- Closes [Support non-object store backends (e.g. NFS) #1229
](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/1229)
- Doesn't yet support kopia, worked with restic.
- Orlin
- KubeCon Shanghai and Chicago
# Sept 12, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Wes Hayutin(Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang(VMware)
- Qi Xu(VMware)

### Status
v1.12: RC2 will be created soon, all issues due to RC2 have been fixed, GA will be around next week.
v1.13: 1st round candidates review finished, current 1.13 issues https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av1.13. Milestone may be delayed because of 1.12.

- Yonghui
- 1.12 RC2 issue fix
- CSI data mover document merged
- Scott
- PR review
- Danfeng
- Performance test automation
- Ming Qiu
- [BSL default setting not work fix](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6771)
- Data path configuration policy design
- Tiger
- Working on [schedule unpaused issue](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6517) design
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Wenkai Yin
- Working on Azure related issues
### Discussion topics
- Scott
- A couple suggestions around github/PR best practices:
- To enhance readability of PRs and commit history, it's best to avoid commit/PR text like "fix issue #1234" -- better would be "issue #1234: summary of the change made"
- When cherry-picking PRs to release branches from main, it's better to wait until the main PR is merged before creating the cherry-pick PR. The reason is that PR review for the main PR might dictate changes made, and it's easy to forget these changes in the cherry-pick PRs. If CP PRs are made after merging to main, then you can just cherry-pick the actual merged commit.
- Yonghui
- For 1.13, what are your prioritized tasks and any suggestion of pinned features

# Sept 5, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- David Zaninovic (CloudCasa)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status
v1.12: RC1 was released Aug 18th. Critical fixes still being made for RC2.

- Scott
- Performance enhancement for existing resource restore
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6723
- 1.13-candidate
- PR review
- Datamover bugfix testing
- Tiger
- K8s 1.27 restore fix for job label change `controller-uid -> batch.kubernetes.io/controller-uid`
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6713
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6712
- Anshul
- RFC https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6721 (Different behavior of Backup and Restore hook execution. )
- Discussion around CSI DM infra limitations: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6731(CSI Datamover limit parallel uploads - production setup impl, perf impl), https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6727 (Ensure recoverability of backup/restore from WaitingForPluginoperations state during velero server restart)

### Discussion topics

- Raghu
- Discussion of combination of backup type seleciton: snapshot, FCB, VBDM.
- Plugin doc change: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6719
- Metrics reset on schedule deletion: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6715
- Block PVC support

# Aug 30, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
v1.12: RC1 is created on 18th. The next phase is on hold, waiting for some critical fixes. The plan is to delay 1.12 for 1~2 weeks
v1.13: Review candidates, will finish the 1st round review this week.

- Yonghui
- Kopia bucket exist check issue under AWS restricted role https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6391
- Data mover restore doesn't work if Velero namespace is not included https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6709

- Daniel
- Fix an issue in AWS role assumption in the plugin
- v1.13 candidate issues triage

- Danfeng
- v1.12 nightly test
- Fix test case issues
- Add test for AWS config format credential as secret file

- Xun
- v1.13 candidate issue discussion

- Ming Qiu
- Velero uninstall bug fix
- Check v1.13 assigned issues
- Wenkai Yin
- Make Kopia support Azure AD
- 1.13 candidates investigation

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Tentative timeline for v1.13.0
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.13-Roadmap
- Discuss some candidates for v1.13
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6640
- This is valuable but may require rework of backup flow.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6142
- By reading the comments of the PR 6354, seems there's disagreement about the expected behavior.
- Scott
- Kopia fork for https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6391
- Currently at https://github.com/reasonerjt/kopia
- Would it be possible to move this under the vmware-tanzu organization? If we're going to be releasing Velero 1.12 with this (unlikely for Kopia release with it before then) we shouldn't rely on a personal github repo -- better for it to be under the same org we're releasing from, especially if changes are needed later in response to a bug report, tec.
- Additionally, we should consider making a request within the kopia community for a patch release with the bugfix commit included, so maybe in Velero 1.12.1 we can move away from needing the fork.

# Aug 22, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- David Zaninovic (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)

### Status
v1.12 RC1 released Aug 18, 2023 -- note that this means release-1.12 branch has been created, so any 1.12 bugfix PRs must be cherry-picked after merging to main
v1.13 Call for candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.13-candidate. Continue to review and discuss

- Scott
- PR review
- 1.13 issue discussion
- David
- DM block mode support implementation:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6680
- Related PRs:
- Velero design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6590
- API change with “unsupported” impl: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6608

### Discussion topics

# Aug 16, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)

### Status
v1.12 RC1 is target to this week. Manual test is done and all RC targeted issues are closed; Release notes are being prepared.
v1.13 Call for candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.13-candidate. Start to review & discuss this week

- Yonghui
- CSI snapshot data movement doc https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6637
- Check v1.13 candidate issues
- Xun
- Verify v1.12 issue fix.
- Go through v1.13 candidate issues.
- Daniel
- Testing v1.12
- Planning v1.13
- Scott
- Bugfix PR:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6649
- Marked as draft for now, for merge after release-1.12 branch created
- Added/tagged 1.13-candidate issues
- Other PR review
- Wenkai Yin
- Go through 1.13 candidate issues
- Make Kopia support Azure AD
- Ming Qiu
- dataupload/datadownload controller bug fix
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- PR for backup repository password configuration: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6618
- Added candidates for 1.13

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Scott/Shawn
- Block volume backup/restore
- (API change/stub implementation for 1.12) https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6608
- (Overall Design) https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6590
- What else is needed to get the API change (without block mode support) merged for 1.12?

# Aug 8, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- David Zaninovic (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status
- Anshul
- Request for review: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6483 (E2E test for Resource Modifier & Bug fixes )
- Include(atleast design) in 1.13: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6165 (CSI Parallel, ideas: use pod BIA)
- David
- DM block mode support implementation
https://github.com/catalogicsoftware/velero_block/pull/1
(related PRs) Velero design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6590
API change with "unsupported" impl, potentially for 1.12: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6608

### Discussion topics

- Raghu
- Metrics

# Aug 2, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Shawn Hurley (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)

### Status
v1.11.1 is released on July 25
v1.12 FC on July 26. Working on manual test & bug fix
v1.13 Call for candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.13-candidate. First round review is around next week

- Tiger
- GetS3Credentials pass profile from config to NewSharedCredentials
- cherrypicked to release-1.10, release-1.11
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6558
- this is fix for Non default s3 credential profiles do not work on Unified Repository Provider (kopia)

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Need more input on the feature value for https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6240
- Daniel
- Discuss the defer-candidate for v1.12
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adefer-candidate
- Nominate Anshul as maintainer:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6570
- Clarify the "velero-contributors"
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6545
- Low priority:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6549
^ Is it OADP's behavior to delete non-stop or velero?
- Thoughts on bumping up the API version for break change in v1.13?
- We should do it incrementally and be really careful about it.

* wes hayutin / Shawn
* DM block mode support in v.1.12.x
* https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6548
* WIP: https://github.com/catalogicsoftware/velero_block/pull/1

* kubecon Shanghai
* Raghu
* Add --or-selector for backup and restore command:https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6475

# July 25, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Sachin Singla (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Aziza Karol(Red Hat)
- Prasad Joshi(Red Hat)
- Amos MAstbaum (Red Hat)
### Status
v1.11.1 is out today
- Scott
- PR review
- Starting to test/use Kopia/datamover (from current main branch) locally in an OADP environment
- Anshul
- Tested Azure Plugin in Azure National Clouds with Wenkai
- Request for Review [Add Resource modifiers docs / site](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6501)
- E2E test for ResourceModifier by next week.
- Bumping the topic for CSI Parallel snapshotting (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6165)
- Discuss around `recreate` option. (if we have extra time)

- Orlin - New slack reminders :)
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Testing out kopia DM with OADP

### Discussion topics
- Orlin
- Community meeting cover me for 8th and 22nd of August and 5th of September ? - share the code to maintainers
- KubeCon Shanghai 2023 - CFP Notifications: Monday, July 31 please drop a line when you have something in
- 1.11.1 blog post or something ?
- 1.12 Blog - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.12-Roadmap - 30th August Blog
- Raghu
- orLabelSelector CLI: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6475
- Skipping emptyDir volumes
- block PVC support

New Contributors nomination issue - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6545

# July 19, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
v1.11.1 All targeting issues are closed, RC is around this week. Issue list https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Atarget%2F1.11.1+is%3Aclosed
v1.12 Closing issues to achieve FC(July 26); Data mover feature is under manual test and nightly automation test, overall result is stable
v1.13 Collecting requirements https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.13-candidate

- Yonghui
- Data mover functionality test and bug fix
- Investigate data mover and local snapshot coexist https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6240
- Xun
- Work on v1.11.1 releasing
- Fix v
issues (#6038, #5787)
- Daniel
- Fix v1.12 issues (#5834 #6129)
- Ming Qiu
- Data mover bug fix
- Performance automation test development
- Danfeng
- Prepare v1.11 pipeline
- v1.12 test plan
- Qi Xu
- Add metrics for data upload/download controller
- Add restore finalizer to clean up the restore external resources

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- For investigation of https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6240, want to know how OADP data mover is using the VS/VSC in the backup tarball and what the principle is in order not to break any of its existing functionalties

# July 11, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)
- Sachin Singla (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Daniel Gur (Red Hat)
### Status
- Scott
- PR review
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Anshul
- Request for Review [Add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses · Pull Request #178 vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/178) [ Need 1 more Approver, Design PR Merged]
- Request for Review [Add support for ResourceModifier (AKA Json Substitutions) in restore flow #6452](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6452) [Design PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880]
- Raghu (CloudCasa)
- orLabelSeletors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6475
- Orlin/Raghu - Slack reminders deletion and create new
### Discussion topics

- Raghu (CloudCasa)
- 1.11 release date. Provided a user with image from 1.11 branch as they needed a log message fix. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6297
- Process for back-porting CSI plugin changes. https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5156
- Mateus
- automate changelog idea
- create discussion for update or new release process(Orlix)
- Scott
- Has anyone tested volumeMode: block support with either kopia or datamover? There's an old github issue indicating that it doesn't work with restic, but I'm unclear on datamover or kopia support. I suspect that it's never been tried/tested.
# July 5, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
### Status
v1.12: Data mover backup and restore is working from end to end

- Yonghui
- Data mover PR review
- Data mover smoke testing & bug fix
- Xun
- Data mover testing and issue fix.
- v1.12 issues fix.
- Daniel
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6042 (Delete the deletebackuprequest that is stuck in "InProgress")
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5834 (Track the PVCs that are skipped)
- Danfeng
- Add datamover E2E tests
- Preparing v1.12 test plan
- Ming Qiu
- DataDownload controller development
- Qi Xu
- Fix hook filter display issue for backup describer
- Clarify the deletion frequency for gc controller
### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Remove the LabelSelector from PVC during restore? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6444
- Yonghui
- Instructions to try CSI snapshot data mover earlier from the main branch:
- Use the main images for Velero, CSI plugin and ObjectStore plugin
- Use the Velero client compiled from the main branch code
- Installation through CLI
- velero install \
    --provider <object store provider> \
    --image velero/velero:main \
    --plugins <object store plugin image>,velero/velero-plugin-for-csi:main \
    --bucket <bucket name> \
    --secret-file <object store secret file path> \
    --backup-location-config <BSL configurations> \
    --features=EnableCSI \
    --use-node-agent
- Backup command: velero backup create <backup name> --include-namespaces <source namespace> --snapshot-move-data
- Restore command: velero restore create --from-backup <backup name>

# June 27, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Amos Mastbaum (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
- Scott
- PR review
- Resumed work on BIA/RIAv2 e2e test
- Shubham
- Azure and AWS plugin PR reviews
- Datamover PR reviews

- Anshul
- Request for Review [Add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses · Pull Request #178 vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/178)
- Json Substitution In progress - Plan to raise by end of next week.
- Tiger
- Request for Review to enable GCP WIF Credentials using file credentials secret
- [Disable blob signing initialization for non SA file based credentials such as external_account type.](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/142)

### Discussion topics

- Raghu
- Discussion of BLOCK PV support

# June 21, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)

### Status
v1.12: Data mover backup(only backup) should be working E2E in main code
Beijing team will be on a holiday 22nd~25th

- Yonghui
- Data mover tasks & reviews
- UT coverage improvement
- Investigate https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6240
- Xun
- CSI RIA v2 tasks
- Danfeng
- Add UT for pkg/cmd/cli
- Add nightly pipelines for datamover test
- Wenkai Yin
- Support Azure AD for Kopia
- Qi Xu
- Add UT for pkg/archive

### Discussion topics

# June 13, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Mateus Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Prasad Joshi (Red Hat)
- Michal Pryc (Red Hat)
- Sebastian Glab (CloudCasa)
- MD Islam (CloudCasa)
- Aziza Karol (Red Hat)

### Status
- Anshul
- Request for Review [Add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses · Pull Request #178 vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/178)
- Discuss Design/ Approach changes with communnity on [Proposal to add support for JSON Substitutions in Restore workflow #5880](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880)
- Shubham
- PR reviews for Data Mover
- Bug fixes
- Updated the deprecation Policy: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5532

### Discussion topics
- Orlin - KubeCon China and NA - CFP closes on 18th!
- Scott and Daniel to apply for China - OS Summit
- Anyone for NA?
- KubeCon NA - Panel Discussion again?
- Panel - Cloud Casa - Raghu
- Who is joining VMware/RedHat/DELL/CloudCasa/Microsoft?
- Organizing swag and stickers
- Raghu
- Question about resource replacement during restore

- Wes
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Roadmap
- I'd like to start using this wiki to help summarize intentions for future releases. e.g. 1.13, 1.14

# June 7, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMwae)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
### Status
v1.12 Feature freeze on May 31

- Yonghui
- Data mover tasks - Backup Expose, Restore Expose
- UT coverage improvement
- Xun
- Data mover tasks - CSI DataUpload BIA
- Investigate [issue 3419](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3419)
- Danfeng
- Prepare 1.12 test plan
- Modify E2E test for data mover test
- Wenkai Yin
- UT coverage improvement
- Going to work on Kopia to support Azure AD
- Ming Qiu
- Data mover tasks - Dataupload controller
- UT coverage improvement
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- PR reviews
- Minor bug fixes:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6298
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/180
### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Improve UT coverage - https://app.codecov.io/gh/vmware-tanzu/velero/

# May 30, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev(VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja(Microsoft)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Wes Hayutin(Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)
- David Zaninovic (CloudCasa)

### Status
- Anshul
- Draft PR, early review: [Add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses · Pull Request #178 vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/178)
- Merged: [Fix SA URI fetch and add useAAD, storageAccountUri fields Pull Request #185 vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/185)
- hackmd is too big need to archive - Jan - Dec 2022 - https://hackmd.io/or-hIzhbRwaB-vjsxs-qnw

### Discussion topics
- Raghu
- Backup status fix back-porting to 1.11: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6276
- CSI snapshot timeout: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/6261, PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/175
- orLabelSelectors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6260

# May 24, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Paampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status
- Yonghui
- Data mover tasks
- Kopia v0.13 bump up following up issues
- Xun
- Velero CSI plugin adopts BIA v2.
- Velero E2E related modifications.
- Daniel
- Working on issues in v1.12 backlog (#5833, #6181)
- Investigation on 1.12 candiate issues
- Danfeng Liu
- Debug and fix nightly issues
- Nightly CI refactor
- Ming Qiu
- E2E optimization
- Dataupload controller development

### Governance topics
- Guidelines for backporting

### Discussion topics
- Daniel: Reminder - 1 week before Feature Freeze, ping us on issues that need attention.

# May 16, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- David Zaninovic (CloudCasa)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)

### Status
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- PR reviews
### Discussion topics
- Anshul
- Rajat will be presenting a short demo on AKS Backup built on top of velero.
- Raghu
- Should this doc change be ported to other versions as well? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6260
- CSI snapshot timeout PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/175
- How does issues assignment works?
- Combination of snapshot and file system backups
- Skipping emptyDirs in file system backups

# May 10, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang(VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
### Status
v1.10.3: GA on May 8th, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.10.3

- Yonghui
- Data mover tasks
- Kopia v0.13 bump up
- Danfeng Liu
- Fix nightly issues
- Adding cross provider clusers deployment in nightly CI
- Ming Qiu
- Optimize E2E test
- Daniel Jiang
- Catching up on things, will start to work on the planned item in v1.12 like: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5833
### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Conclusions on recent discussions about backup hook and BIA V2
- What is the backup hook like?
*It is available per pod only, the pre-hook runs before backup of the pod and all the sub-items; the post-hook runs after Velero backup workflow completes for the pod and sub-items, including completion of the call of sub-items' BIA.*
- What is the backup hook like for CSI plugin?
*Existing behavior: CSI plugin guarantees VSCs are created and snapshot handle is filled in VSCs before returnning from BIA. However, the CSI snapshot probablly not ready, Velero backup waits the readiness of snapshots by the end of the backup. So we cannot say that the snapshot creation finishes when calling post-hooks.
After changing CSI plugin async: the async plugin should still wait the VSCs and snapshot handle filled synchoronouly, otherwise, pos-hooks will have the risk to release the IO too early if they are used to quiesce the applications.*
- Do post-hooks wait the readiness of the snapshots necessarily?
*Most probablly, when the snapshot handle appears in the VSC, the IO path has been set up for the snapshot, so it is safe to release the IO. Therefore, we would expect it not to be a problem. However, we don't see any clarification from the CSI spec. So we will keep it as is until we see cases that disproves this judgement*
- Is it better to make the wait for VSC and its snapshot handle async?
*Yes, this reduce the backup time under some erroneous cases. However, however we make it, we must keep the rule that post-hooks are executed after the VSC and its snapshot handle appears*

# May 2, 2023 (US/Europe)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red hat
- Raghuram Devarakonda (CloudCasa)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar(Red Hat)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Orlin - Release 1.11 Blog PR - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6218
- Scott
- Will resume working on BIA/RIAv2 e2e test this week
- Anshul
- Add Proposal to add support for JSON Substitutions in Restore workflow https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880 for v1.12
- [RFC] https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/185 (Fix SA URI fetch and add useAAD, storageAccountUri fields)
### Discussion topics
- Orlin - KubeCon Shanghai and KubeCon NA - CFP are open
- https://www.lfasiallc.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-open-source-summit-china/program/call-for-proposals/
- CFP Closes: Sunday, June 18 at 11:59 pm China Standard Time (UTC +8)
CFP Notifications: Monday, July 31
Schedule Announcement: Wednesday, August 2
Slide upload deadline to Sched.com: Wednesday, September 20
Event Date: September 25-27
- https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/cfp/
- CFP Closes: Sunday, June 18 at 11:59pm Central Daylight Time (UTC-6)
CFP Notifications: Monday, August 28
Schedule Announcement: Wednesday, August 30
Slide upload deadline to Sched.com: Wednesday, November 1
Event Date: November 6-10, 2023
- Orlin - get together in Shanghai? VMware/Red Hat/CloudCasa/Anyone else?
- Orlin - SODA foundation(https://www.sodafoundation.io/) asked me if we want to join them as member of the ecosystem!
- Raghu: VolumeSnapshot deletion behavior (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/6214)
- Anshul - any ETA/ status on BIAv2 for CSI plugin. Context: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1681899379315259
- Anshul - [RFC] https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/185 (Fix SA URI fetch and add useAAD, storageAccountUri fields)
- Anshul - Cleanup VolumeSnapshot if VSC polling times out.

# Apr 26, 2023 (China/US)
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)

### Status Updates
v1.10.3: Tentative target is the week of May 8th, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Atarget%2F1.10.3+
v1.11: GA on Apr. 20, release notes https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.11.0
v1.12: Plan is almost done, 1st round cadidate triage is done, will start the 1st sprint
Beijing team will have a holiday Apr 29th ~ May 3rd

- Yonghui
- Data mover tasks break down
- DataUpload/DataDownload CRD under v1alpha1 https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6176
- Xun
- Work on v1.9.7 and v1.11.0 releasing.
- Enable more linters for Velero.
- Wenkai Yin
- Investigate the 1.12-candidate issues assigned to me
- Scott
- KubeCon last week
- Will resume working on BIA/RIAv2 e2e test this week
- Ming Qiu
- Analysis and optimization of E2E tests
- Danfeng liu
- Support Datamover test in CI
### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- 1.12 roadmap, timeline:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.12-Roadmap-(Draft)
- Discuss some specific 1.12 candidates:
- JSON substitution during restore:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880
- Additional Resource filters for backup:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5152
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5842

# Apr 12, 2023 ()
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Qi Xu(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
v1.11: RC on Apr. 11, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.11.0-rc.1
v1.12: Start to review candidates, data mover being anchor feture. Open for candicates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/labels/1.12-candidate

- Yonghui
- Data mover POC verification
- 1.12 cadidate issue review

- Ming Qiu
- Resource policies bug fix, doc and e2e test
- Daniel
- Triaging v1.12 candidate issues
- Verifying the bugfixes, test for v1.11
- Scott
- BIAv2/RIAv2 example plugin approved, ready to merge
- (needed for BIA/RIAv2 e2e test)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Continued working on BIA/RIAv2 e2e test
- At this point, probably best merged post-release
- Xun
- Fix issues found in v1.11 release process.
- Add E2E case for new scoped resource filters.
- Danfeng Liu
- Nightly test for v1.11
- Add E2E case for schedule backup creation
### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Discuss the open questions on the data mover design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5968.
- Shubham
- Existing Resource Policy with delete and recreate options
- Issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/469
- Earlier design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613

# Apr 4, 2023
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin ( Red Hat)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Daniel Jiang(VMware)
- Sathya Sankaran(CloudCasa)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Scott
- Item operation bugfix PR (backup deletion) merged
- BIAv2/RIAv2 example plugin needs review/merge
- (needed for BIA/RIAv2 e2e test)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Started working on BIA/RIAv2 e2e test

### Discussion =topics=
- Sathya
- Quick Demo of the new CloudCasa for Velero - A SaaS based MultiCluster Manager & UI for Velero
- Fully compatible with Velero existing installs - catalog and manage current config + create new
- Demos at KubeCon Amsterdam. All are welcome to our booth(next to Kasten. lol)
- Daniel
- Collecting requirement for v1.12 (Datamover being the anchor feature)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.12-candidate

# March 29, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (Vmware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
v1.11: FC on Mar. 24th, post FC test has started
v1.12: Start to plan, open for candicates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/labels/1.12-candidate

- Yonghui
- v1.11 manual test
- Data Mover POC integrates to RIA v2, code changes and design changes https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5968
- Xun
- v1.11 manual test
- Add E2E test cases
- Wenkai Yin
- v1.11 manual test
- Danfeng Liu
- Bumpup K8S Version up to v1.25 in nightly
- v1.11 manual test
- Scott
- A couple of additional item operation follow-on PRs merged.
- Item operation bugfix PR (backup deletion) under review:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/6041
- BIAv2/RIAv2 example plugin needs review/merge
- (needed for BIA/RIAv2 e2e test)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Shubham
- Datamover design PR review

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Start to discuss the process to deprecate Restic path for File System Backup, i.e., set Kopia as the default path; complete Velero deprecation process PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5532 and merge it.

# March 21, 2023
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
### Status Updates
- Scott
- BIAv2 follow-on work merged
- RIAv2 controller work merged
- Example v2 plugins PR:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Will be ready for final review once I update go.mod to point to main rather than my PR branch (later today)
- Anshul
- [RFC] Proposal to add generic pluginInputs field in backup/restore/schedule CRs(https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5981)
- Request to community members / plugin owners to also add their use cases in above PR.
- [RFC] Design to add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses in CSI Plugin (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5774)
- [RFC] Proposal to add support for JSON Substitutions through Restore workflow ( https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880)
-
### Discussion topics

# March 15, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
### Status Updates
v1.10.2 GA on March 10, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.10.2

- Yonghui
- v1.11 PR review
- Data movement design is ready for review https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5968
- Data movement POC integrate to BIA/RIA V2, code change and testing

- Ming Qiu
- [Backup of volumes by resource policies](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5901) ready to be reviewed

- Daniel
- Resolved issue 4969
- PR review
- Working a few doc issues under my name targeting v1.11
- Will remove the code related to itemsnapshotter as we choose to use BIA v2 for progress monitoring
- Scott
- BIAv2 controller follow-on PR merged
- Wait for Additional Items to be ready on restore, ready for review
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5933
- RIAv2 controller PR expected this week (currently in progress)

- Danfeng Liu
- Investigate nightly failures
- Add PVC selected-node E2E test
- Wenkai Yin
- Update the doc of Azure plugin to reflect the new changes
- Review PRs
- Xun
- PR [New scoped resource filters](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5838) is ready for review.
- PR [Support != in selector](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5974)

- Qi
- Add warning/error details to backup describer
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Testing BIA V2 changes

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Set the FC date to 24th?

# March 07, 2023
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Matthew Arnold (Red Hat)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)
- Sathya Sankaran (CloudCasa)

### Status Updates
- Anshul
- [RFC] Design to add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses in CSI Plugin (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5774)
- [RFC] Proposal to add support for JSON Substitutions through RestoreItemAction plugin. ( https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880)
- Scott
- BIAv2 controller work merged
- Merged to unblock RIAv2 controller work
- Follow-on PR coming this week to address the remaining review comments
- RIAv2 controller PR expected this week
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Emily
- Reviews needed for timeout server setting PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5926 <- Needs attention

### Discussion topics
- Daniel
- Discuss the gap for BIAv2 plugin to handle postOperationItems (itemsToUpdate) - how can plugin developer make sure that it does not trigger async Operation?
- Current thought is to do two things:
- document expectation that operations aren't started during finalize phases and in the example async plugin, do this checking
- error out if a plugin returns an operation ID during finalize
- Is there E2E test for progress monitoring?
- Currently there are unit tests but not e2e tests.
- Prerequisite for e2e testing is the biav2 plugin example merging
- FC date may need to delay (Oringally March 10)
- An extra week is probably needed since 2 required PRs on the async work have yet to be posted.
- Sathya
- How to work with maintainers on a new service that will add UI and management on top of existing Velero installs?
- How can we best collaborate and Support the community?
- Lets also fix the community call invite - Hackmd links are wrong.Slack reminders come at inconsistent times.

- wes
- feature complete dates for velero 1.11 in doubt? slight slip?
- 1 week slip for now!

# March 01, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
v1.9.6: GA on 24 Feb.
v1.10.2: RC1 is created, open for candidates. Current candidates https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Atarget%2F1.10.2
v1.11: FC target 10 Mar.

- Yonghui
- v1.11 PR review
- Data movement design PR preparation
- Ming Qiu
- [Release velero v1.9.6](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.9.6)
- [Coding on backup of volumes by resource policies](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5901)
- Xun
- Fix CVEs in v1.9.6 and v1.10.2
- [Add new resource filters can separate cluster and namespace scope resouces](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5838)
- Daniel
- v1.11 PR review
- Wenkai Yin
- Switch the base image to distroless/base-nossl-debian11
- Review PRs
- Danfeng Liu
- Add nodeport E2E test
- Add changing PVC storage class E2E test
- Qi
- Work on issue5576
- Scott
- BIAv2 controller/monitoring work:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5849
- Updated in response to prior reviews and testing
- Wait for Additional Items to be ready on restore
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5933
- Previously approved design is here: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2867
- Fixes: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/1350
- Basically ready for review, but in "draft" state until https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5926 is merged and I update PR to use the new field
### Discussion topics
- Emily
- Server setting used for default timeouts: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5926

# February 21, 2023
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Matthew Arnold (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Ivan
- [RFC] Extend resource filters to use field selectors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5842
- Scott
- BIAv2 controller/monitoring work:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5849
- Currently under review. Reviewers have expressed concern about the complexity of implementation, but the alternative proposed will be possibly even more complex with some loss of functionality.
-
- Anshul
- [RFC] Design to add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses in CSI Plugin (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5774)
- [RFC] Proposal to add support for JSON Substitutions through RestoreItemAction plugin. ( https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5880)
### Discussion topics
- Orlin
- KubeCon Europe Amsterdam - April 18-21 - Beers anyone ? :) who is going ?
- Blog by the community - Red Hat, DELL, Microsoft, VMware... etc ? - Velero usage and products around it
- Daniel
- Discuss the disagreement around [PR 5849](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5849)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5773
# February 15, 2023
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
### Status Updates
v1.9.6: GA around Mar. 01
v.1.10.1: Released on Feb. 06
v.1.11: Original FC Feb. 24, propose to delay 2 weeks, updated date see https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.11-Roadmap

- Daniel
- v1.11 issues
- Design discussion for volume filter, data mover, etc.
- Yonghui
- data movement discussion questions follow up, cancel, CRDs
- v1.11 issue investigation
- Ming Qiu
- Conitue working on [Design for Handling backup of volumes by resources filters](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5773)
- Refactor Backup Controller
- Xun
- Cluster and namespace resource filters
- Refactor restore controller
- Wenkai Yin
- Add detailed resource list when describe a restore [#5199](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5199)
- Support Azure AD workload identity for Azure plugin [#5116](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5116)
- Qi Xu
- Add Prometheus metrics on Velero
- Update and modify Grafana dashboard
- Danfeng Liu
- Add E2E test of snapshotvolumes parameter
- Add E2E test of nodeport preservation
- Scott
- BIAv2 controller/monitoring work:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5849
- Ready for review
- High priority for review/merge since the Restore workflow will be similar, so any changes made here will also affect the forthcoming Restore PR.
- Shubham
- Design PR reviews

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- data movement discussion sync up: 2nd meeting completed, open questions are all addressed. Do we need the 3rd round discussion?
- Ming Qiu
- [Design for Handling backup of volumes by resources filters](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5773)
- Daniel
- About the PR for result.json in backup:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5576
Do we want it merged, if the error category is inaccurate?
- Ivan
- [RFC] Extend resource filters to use field selectors: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5842

# February 07, 2023
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
### Status Updates
- Scott
- Continued working on implementation of backup controller work for async plugins. I hope to have a draft PR posted by end of the week.

- Anshul
- [Updated/Discussion needed] Proposal to add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses in CSI Plugin: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5774

- Ivan
- [WIP] Proposal to extend the new include/exclude resource filters to support field selectors

- Wes
- Deprecation Policy needs review https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5532
- Orlin
- Sorry for not being able to join today, in CNCF meeting in the same time!
- Velero talk Scott and Orlin Rejected at KubeCon :(
- Velero panel discussion rejected at KubeCon :(
### Discussion topics

# February 01, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

v1.10.1: Preparing GA, plan to GA this week
v1.11 - built-in data movement: 1st round discussion completes

- Yonghui
- data movement discussion questions follow up
- Xun
- [Design for seperating namespace and cluster resource filter](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5333#discussion_r1072094561)
- Work on some v1.11 issues.

- Wenkai Yin
- Add detailed resource list when describe a restore [#5199](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5199)
- Scott
- Continued working on implementation of backup controller work for async plugins. I hope to have a draft PR posted by end of the week.

- Shubham
- Update CRD descriptions related to `SnapshotVolumes` and `restorePVs` https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5807

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Schedule 2nd round disucssion on built-in data movement (8am Beijing Time / 7pm EST / 4pm PST next Wednesday/8th?)

# January 24, 2023
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Ivan Sim (Dell)
- Scott Seago(Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
### Status Updates
- Scott
- Define itemoperations.json format and update DownloadRequest API merged last week
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5752
- RIAv2 implementation, merged last week
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5569
- Velero plugin example updated to include v2 and v1 BIA plugins, ready for review
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Started implementation of backup controller work for async plugins
- Shubham
- PR reviews
- Prepare for Velero IT Press Tour session

### Discussion topics
- Anshul Ahuja
- [Request For Review] Publish backup results to enhance error info https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5576
- [Discussion / Review] Proposal to add support for Multiple VolumeSnapshotClasses in CSI Plugin: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5774
- Ivan Sim
- Guideline for backing up CRDs with no CRs in target namespace
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5333
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5152
- Tail latency for batch backups due to sequential backup job
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5510

# January 18, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
v1.10.1: RC on Jan. 20. Issue list: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Atarget%2F1.10.1
v1.11 - data movement: A demo is created for built-in data movement for CSI snapshot. Next target: discuss to finalize the design and compose the draft design PR
v1.11 - resource include/exclude(https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5120): ongoing, a design is submittd for review
v1.11 - volume type filter(https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5035): ongoing, a draft design is created

Beijing team will be on Spring Festival holiday from 21st to 29th

- Yonghui
- data movement POC
- v1.11 issue investigation and fix, some PRs have been submitted
- Ming Qiu
- Data movement POC and recorded one demo to show the whole worflow(https://vmware.zoom.us/rec/share/D70UWgrUmeWQ6hPuQH1kOGjom1HN81LzDgcPodzuT10Lqlpx7N0DrJou_ZUFEi5f.6__GSkt0ZAHn37bc password: k^H%WUe8)
- Design for Handling backup of volumes by resources filters
- Xun
- [Design for seperating namespace and cluster resource filter](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5333#discussion_r1072094561)
- Daniel
- Issues target v1.11
- IRSA issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4959
- Restic restore failure on cross region scenario:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5420
- Scott
- Define itemoperations.json format and update DownloadRequest API
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5752
- Responded to prior comments/reviews
- Possible follow-on design and implementation work in separate PRs based on PR comment (1.11 vs later, TBD)
- RIAv2 implementation, ready for review
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5569
- Velero plugin example updated to include v2 and v1 BIA plugins
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- Wenkai Yin
- Restore the `finalizer` and `managedFields` metadata during the restoration: [#5080](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5580) [#5071](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5701)
- Danfeng Liu
- Reproduce and debug kibishii random failure issue #5687

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- 1st round discussion on built-in data movement for CSI snapshot design https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xuvLK2qicB7g2MqXXggQaPai5Ok6r6Y4p9GV-Gscq64/edit?usp=sharing. Setup a separate meeting at 8am Beijing Time / pm EST / 4pm PST on Jan. 19
- Ming Qiu
- [Handle backup of volumes by resources filters](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5773)

# January 10, 2023
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Anshul Ahuja (Microsoft)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)

### Status Updates
- Scott
- BIAv2 API implementation PR merged
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5442
- Define itemoperations.json format and update DownloadRequest API (new PR this week)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5752
- Will shortly rebase the following PRs after BIAv2 merge (and update from draft to ready-to-review)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5569 (RIAv2)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66 (example BIAv2 plugin)
- Daniel
- Triaged all v1.11-candidates issues
### Discussion topics
- Orlix
- Add release process and docs https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5676
- CODEOWNERS or auto-assignees https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5470
- Honouring RestorePV flag - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/127
- Anyone at FOSDEM - Belgium 4,5 Feb ?
- Anyone at KubeCon ?
- Daniel
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/1350 Scott does it has to be part of v1.11
- Discuss https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5333

- Anshul
- - CSI Plugin does not honour RestorePVs flag: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-csi/pull/127
- Publish backup results to enhance error info: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5576

- Wes
- Kubeconf 2023 or other event/time/location for a velero meetup
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# January 04, 2023
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Wes Hayutin(Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Yonghui
- 1.11 cadidate issue investigation
- Velero built-in data movement POC
- Xun
- 1.11 cadidate issue investigation
- Enable StaticCheck linter, and set whitelist.
- Daniel
- Triaging issues targeting v1.11
- Debugging an error handling issue in velero's plugin framework (#5205)
- Scott
- BIAv2 API implementation PR, responded to review comments
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5442
- Wenkai Yin
- 1.11 cadidate issue investigation
- Continue to review the Azure plugin PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/111
- Danfeng liu
- Fix nightly kibishii issue
- Add test for restic backup with restricted AWS credential
- Ming Qiu
- Velero build-in data movement POC

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- Schedule a time to further dicuss Velero built-in data movement design https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xuvLK2qicB7g2MqXXggQaPai5Ok6r6Y4p9GV-Gscq64/edit?usp=sharing

### Contributor Shoutouts

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