# 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:_
- _1st and 3rd Tuesday at 12PM ET / 9AM PT ([Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=09:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)) - [Zoom link](https://vmware.zoom.us/j/551441444?pwd=dHJyMWZtdHFPWWFJaTh5TnFuYWMvZz09)_
- _2nd and 4th Tuesday at 8am China Standard Time / 8pm ET / 5pm PT ([Convert to your time zone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=17:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29)) - [Zoom link](https://vmware.zoom.us/j/551441444?pwd=dHJyMWZtdHFPWWFJaTh5TnFuYWMvZz09)_

Have a question? Please add it to our [Q&A Discussion board](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a)

_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
* [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 10, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Bruce(Xun) Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell-EMC)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Daniel
- Fix issues in CSI plugin
- Call for verification.
- Review PR
- Yonghui
- Kopia Integration
- POC 1 - Done
- POC 2 – Done
- Design Doc - Ongoing
- Review PR
- Bruce (Xun)
- Fix issues in CSI plugin
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4879
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4761
- Refactor BSL controller
- Review PR
- Wenkai Yin
- Bump up version of distroless image for main Velero and change the base image of plugin to scratch
- Make garbage collection frequency configurable
- Scott Seago
- VolumeSnapshotLocation credentials: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- RestoreItemAction plugin processing bugfix (merged): https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4890

### Discussion Topics
- Daniel
- The FC date may be delayed
- Are we OK to defer this one: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- probably OK to defer to v1.10
- Any issue/PR needs our attention targeting v1.9?
- Phuong opened an issue about BSL, Sukarna will let us know the issue number and we'll triage for v1.9: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4840
- Eleanor
- JenTing/Helm chart updates/maintainership
- TODO: Remove Jenting from auto-assign for velero/plugins repos.
- Clarify the expectation of maintainer in Governance.md

# May 3, 2022
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)

### Status Updates
- Orlix
- Archived Notes for 2021 [GitHub Wiki](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Velero-Community-Meeting-and-Open-Discussion-Notes--2021)
- OpenSource Summit NA 22 - Orlix and Scott - [Velero - The Cloud Native Backup for Kubernetes](https://ossna2022.sched.com/event/11Nu9?iframe=no)
- KubeCon NA 22 CfP open until May 27th - [Register Here](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/cfp/)
- Open for cross org collab :)
- Abbie
- Working on 1.9 docs issues, opened a bunch of PRs in the past few days

### Discussion Topics
Shubham:
- Datamover design disscussion call on Thursday ?
- Existing Resource Policy Design PR, good to merge ?
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613

# April 26, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
### Status Updates
- Daniel
- Refactor the backup deletion controller
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4669
- Fix issues in CSI plugin
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4760
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4860
- Review PRs
- Yonghui
- Kopia Integration POC
- POC 1 -- Done
- Repo interface design
- Prove Repo Interface -> Kopia Repo
- Prove Kopia Uploader -> Repo Interface
- Prove other uploader -> Repo Interface
- POC 2 -- Ongoing
- Integrate POC 1 code to Velero
- Ming QIu
- [Refactor the restic repository controller](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4859)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4670
- Xun Jiang
- Add insecureSkipTLSVerify for Restic CLI
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4839
- Fix CSI plugin issues:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4758
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/2499
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4764
- Wenkai Yin
- Refactor the pod volume restore controller with kubebuilder(PR [#4655](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4655) is under review)
- Fixing [#4772](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4772): the restic controller doesn't pick up the in-progress CRs after restarting. The fix will try to mark them as failed

### Discussion Topics
- Check the status of the issues for plugin versioning refacotr, restore policy and selectors.
- The plugin versioning refactor for v1 will be likely out of v1.9
- Data mover design:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pulls#:~:text=Add%20datamover%20design
- We may merge the PR first to cover the user scenario.
- John Sandas works on Cassandra operators wanna use CR to backup cassandra running out of cluster, exploring ways to extend velero to trigger custom code to do B/R for the cassandra.

# April 19, 2022
### Attendees
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten/Veeam)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)
-
### Status Updates
- Abbie
- 1.9 docs updates can be seen in the project board - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/projects/12
- Draft PR for improvements to the side nav on the website - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4812. Please review and add any comments :)

### Discussion Topics
- Eleanor: Kubecon NA CFP in October
- Past topics:
- Velero 101
- What data protection do you need for K8s?
- Note that we have heard that we should avoid single-vendor "selling" in the talk
- One idea:
- Data mover something?
- If you are interested, please reach out on #velero-dev or ping Daniel Jiang or Eleanor Millman
- Eleanor: Data Mover design doc part 1 to be reviewed by next week? https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1650312063249659

# April 12, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Daniel: Fixing issues around CSI plugin
- Ming Qiu: [Velero performance test](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-EDvKghsm4NRirW_qoU7jlNXERMq5EC2J6hq7HYyEFA/edit)
- Yonghui: Unified Repository Interface Design and Kopia Adoption (as file system uploder + repository)

### Discussion Topics
- Daniel:
- 18th April is the "feature freeze" for velero v1.9, no new feature request will be accepted after that day, can we check the plan for:
- plugin versioning - refactor for v1
- restore policy
- multi-label support
- anything else?
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4785
- Shubham:
- Multiple label selector support [PR](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4650) review request

# April 5, 2022
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Shawn Hurley (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)⛑
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian (Dell EMC)

### Status Updates
- Eleanor - ongoing discussions on data mover and repo (Kopia). Meeting recordings and schedule are here: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Data-mover-discussions and working PRD is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uL7oG19-9Tv5iG-P6PKghhWCh_JuF-v1R-FCxBj6vI/edit
- Abbie - Working on docs issues for 1.9. There are a bunch of good first issues for docs, if anyone is interested - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Good+first+issue%22+label%3AArea%2FDocumentation

### Discussion Topics
- Phuong:
-- Update on status of the Velero plugin interface versioning: Design doc has been merged in. You can find the design doc here: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/blob/main/design/plugin-versioning.md
-- Implementation strategy: refactor v1 first, then adding v2. Refactoring v1 will be done one piece at a time, starting with BackupItemAction, then RestoreItemAction etc. to keep the PR small to make it easy to review, test and thus reduce chance of regression.
-- Phuong has created a branch for refactoring v1 https://github.com/phuongatemc/velero/tree/refactor_plugin_v1_backupactionitem and start working on this item. Please feel free to contact Phuong (on Slack) to contribute.
- Volume Group KEP: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/1551

# March 22, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian (Dell EMC)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Poojita Badarinarayan (Dell EMC)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Daniel:
- Pulled out a list of work items for CSI plugin GA(for public cloud):
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22CSI+plugin+-+GA+-+phase1%22
Please let us know if there're issues you think important.
- Reviewing Dave's PR, a bit more time needed...

### Discussion Topics
- Phuong: Discuss next step on Velero plugin versioning - 10 min
- Start refactoring to implement the versioning framework and v1. Make sure no regression first. Continue implement discussion on Slack. Involve Waikai and Daniel to keep every in the same pace.
- Start design discussion on v2 on Slack.
- Do we have community approval for replacing restic with Kopia? - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMLuRzEpYWYE-Ci_eLg8gWbjDv4DSyqj/edit
- Suggestion to have a pluggable repo model, have Kopia be the reference implementation
- Will consider over several versions, allowing users to choose between restic and Kopia for restore
- Review request on PRs:
- Existing Resource Policy Impl: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4628
- Multiple Label Selectors Design Question: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4619#issuecomment-1068117210
- Datamover design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4768
- Mini working groups?
- Will schedule 2 meetings next week (same time next week) and Thursday 8 AM ET/8 PM Beijing - Eleanor
- WG scheduling: Dylan, Eleanor, Dave, Sukarna, Amber, Xing
- Discusions in #velero-dev
- Further data mover discussion
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECnUJt18sXmCkksgh2XgbCRe0zB85ZUdltpRChchoe0/edit
- Discuss on the data mover implemetion method base on the performance consideration
- Negotiate which has higher priority in data mover design phase one: generic CSI data mover or better performance data mover for specific CSI provider.
- Need to consider data mover and repository are pluggable in the desgin.
- Backup replication to other cluster is not included in the data mover by now.
-

# March 15, 2022
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Rajula Vineet (CERN)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian (Dell EMC)

### Status Updates

### Announcements
- Eleanor: Discussion about potentially replacing Kopia with restic will be next week (March 22 evening North America, March 23 morning Beijing), read this doc beforehand if possible (post on #velero-dev if you don't have access): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMLuRzEpYWYE-Ci_eLg8gWbjDv4DSyqj/edit
- Eleanor: I am creating a PRD (product requirements doc) for a data mover feature, so please be in contact (#velero-dev) if you have opinions on this. Also, the community meeting next week is a good time to bring your thoughts.
- Eleanor: We are potentially going to be working on a design for multi-tenancy during the 1.9 timeframe. Please be in touch (#velero-dev) if you want to be involved. Also, the community meeting next week is a good time to bring your thoughts.

### Discussion Topics
- Phuong: Quick update on adding PriorityClass to PodAction https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3933 Pull Request https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4740

- Data mover - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/astrolabe
- Velero Plugin for vSphere data mover
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-vsphere/tree/main/pkg/dataMover
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-vsphere/tree/main/pkg/apis/datamover/v1alpha1
- NFS Share

# March 8, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian (Dell EMC)

### Status Updates
- [Daniel]
- Review the design PRs
- Fixed issue 4080 in main and 1.8.x
- Investigating CSI plugin, will pull out a list of issues for phase1 GA (AWS/Azure)
- Wenkai Yin
- Prepare the RC build for 1.8.1
- Fix bugs targeting 1.9
### Discussion Topics
- [Phuong]
- PriorityClass https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3933
- Velero plugin versioning review.
- [Tiger]
- Should expired (by TTL) backup be garbage collected if it failed validation or the backup is partially failed by default?
- We (Red Hat) are looking to allow user to delete these backup automatically by default or as a new feature. [Issue#4728](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4728)
- [Shubham]
- Are we on board with the design PRs
- [ExistingResourcePolicy](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613)
- [Multipl Label Selector](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4619)

- [YongHui Li] / [Ming Qiu]
- [kopia restic comparison](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BMLuRzEpYWYE-Ci_eLg8gWbjDv4DSyqj/edit)
# March 1, 2022
### Attendees
- Eleanor Millman (Vmware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian (Dell EMC)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell EMC)
### Status Updates
- [Jonas]
- Introducing Orlin Vasilev as the new community manager!
- [Eleanor]
- The 1.9 roadmap is finalized (but may be changed as needed). Please check out the recording from the community meeting last week to hear me talk through it.
- GA will be mid-June. Release dates will be announced at the community meeting next week.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.9-Roadmap
### Discussion Topics
- [Phuong]
- ServiceAccount A in namespace A was granted a SCC priviledge (using “oc adm policy add-scc-to-user...” command). After restore to a different namespace B, the SA A in namespace B lost the priviledge because priviledge was linked in the clusterrolebinding which specified SA A in namespace A ==> pod failed to start. SCC is OpenShift specific and OpenShift plugin should handle it. ==> Need to check if it is OpenShift plugin bug and file a bug with OpenShift plugin. We have similar issue with PriorityClass https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3933 where the Pod reference to PriorityClass (cluster scope) and it is not included in the backup.
- Role and Rolebinding are currently restored after Pod which caused Pod to fail when it needs some set up in Role/Rolebinding. Workaround (need to be tested) would be specify the restorePriorities option to have Role and Rolebinding before Pod.
- Velero plugin timeout discussion: revisit next week when Daniel Jiang presents to discuss together with Velero plugin versioning.
- [Eleanor]
- PR review goal: "Velero maintainers review PRs on a weekly basis. So, if you haven’t heard anything from us within 5 business days, please post on #velero-dev If your PR is more urgent, feel free to ping us sooner on this channel and let us know."
# Feb 22, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Shyam Anandasubramanian(Dell EMC)
### Status Updates
- Daniel
- 1.9 planning
- investigate issue 4080
- Review PRs

### Discussion Topics
- Discuss the fix https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4080
- 1.9 Roadmap (basically) done!
- Existing Resource Policy design PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613
- Multiple label selector support design PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4619

# Feb 15, 2022
### Attendees
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
-- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- Eleanor
- v1.8.0 is out!

### Discussion Topics
- Jonas
- Community meeting times

- Eleanor
- CSI snapshot Plugin to GA perhaps in 1.9
- Request for Upload Progress progress report from Dave :)

- Shubham
- Discuss updates to `existingResourcePolicy` design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613
- Discuss multiple label selector design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4619

# Feb 1, 2022
### Attendees
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten/Veeam)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- Dave
- Working on comments from Daniel on ItemSnapshotter PR and design [PR# 4467](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4467)

### Discussion Topics
- [Eleanor] Follow-up on https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4285 (community support for older versions).
- [Eleanor] Follow-up on (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Community-support-goals-and-action-items-(Work-in-Progress))
- [Dylan] CVE-2021-3538 fixes
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/120
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/75
- [Shubham/Dylan] Enabling support for ExistingResourcePolicy to restore API https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4613
- After discussion, requested to update non-goals and explicit details regarding PVs and add scenarios/use cases

# Jan 25, 2022
### Attendees
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (Kasten/Veeam)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- Daniel
- Review PR, Plan for v1.9
- Dave
- Updated affiliation in PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4577
- Wenkai Yin
- Refactor PVR controller with kubebuilder
### Discussion Topics
- [Eleanor] Discuss https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4285 (community support for older versions).
- [Eleanor] Help with documentation if you have a few minutes! https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1643045582010800
- [Eleanor] More generally, discuss community support goals and possible action items (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/Community-support-goals-and-action-items-(Work-in-Progress))
- [Eleanor] 1.9 roadmap still WIP (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.9-Roadmap-(Work-in-Progress)). Give feedback here: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/4529
# Jan 18, 2022
### Attendees
- Jonas Rosland
- Nanci Lancaster
- Bridget McErlean (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Dave Smith-Uchida (VMware)
- Frankie Gold (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Rafael Brito (VMware)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Dylan Murray (Red Hat)
- Shawn Hurley (Red Hat)

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- Bridget
- Announcement
- Data Mover design
- Dave
- Announcement
- Astrolabe docs

### Discussion Topics
- [jonas] Velero 1.8 release date - Feb 14
- [eleanor] [Collecting Requirements/Ideas/Features for v1.9.0](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/4529)
- [brito-rafa] resurface the discussion on Pre/Post Backup/Restore plugins - design under approval - glad to add anything missing https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4083
- [shurley] (If Time) Would like to dicuss velero performance with plugins and astrolabe intenegration using plugins for my understanding.
- Parallelism as feature flag
- Number of workers should be configurable
- This will help if we ever need to turn OFF the parallelism feature
- Potential "experimental" feature flag for all things experimental
- Ordering of additional items on restore
- Ensuring existing plug-ins are re-entrant
- Scope this between pre- and post-hooks
- Start with backup, then look at restore

### Contributor shoutouts

# Jan 11, 2022
### Attendees
- Dave Smith-Uchida (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Frankie Gold (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- Dave
- PTO
- GRPC Plugins for Astrolabe
- Daniel Jiang
- Testing post v1.8 FC
- Preparing for RC
- Wenkai Yin
- Doing manual tesing and bug fixing for 1.8
### Discussion Topics
- (Eleanor) Docs update

### Contributor Shoutouts