# Velero Community Meeting and Open Discussion Notes

_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]&ctz=America/New_York))
- Join us at [Zoom Link](https://vmware.zoom.us/j/94501971662?pwd=aUxVbWVEWHZSbDh4ZGdGU1cxYUFoZz09)
- 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:_

# 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
-
# 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