# 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)

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# September 27, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Sukarna Grandhi (Dell EMC)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
### Status Updates
- Xun
- Proposal to separate resource filter into cluster scope and namespace scope.
- Velero Carvel package update.
- Ming Qiu
- v1.9.2 released
- Velero performance test
- Yonghui
- PVB/PVR refactor: command parameters rename, daemonset rename
- Wenkai Yin
- Pause schedule PR merged
- Reviewing Azure plugin PR [#111](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/111): use service principle rather than the storage account key to do the auth
- Update Azure plugin to support VSL credential
- Daniel Jiang
- Review PRs
- Investigating issue [#4969](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4969) [#4284](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/4284)

### Discussion topics
- Ming Qiu
- End to end workflow with Kopia integration demo
- Daniel Jiang
- Allow BIA to make velero skip the "include/exclude" check for additional items
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5406
# September 20, 2022
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Pradeep Chaturvedi (VMware)

### Status Updates
v1.9.2: rc.1 has been released
v1.10 Roadmap: Feature Freeze last week (Sep 14)
- Scott Seago
- Plugin versioning work:
- RIA v1 refactoring:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5312
- VolumeSnapshotter v1 refactoring:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5318
- VSL credentials: merged. We still need GCP and Azure support (AWS support is already in place)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- (async) Item action plugin design, still awaiting final review:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- Will start design PRs for BIA/RIA/VolumeSnapshotter v2 APIs
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Working on testing edge cases for CSI backups, specially when the resources created by the plugin do not get backed up.
- PR reviews
### Discussion topics

# September 14, 2022
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell EMC)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- SUkarna Grandhi (Dell)

### Status Updates
v1.9.2: Relase preparing, issue list https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/milestones/v1.9.2
v1.10 Roadmap: Feature Freeze (Sep 14)
Kopia Integration: Made through E2E workflow for Restic and Kopia path; Performance test & tuning started; PodVolume refator started
Kubuilder Refactor：repoEnsurer refactor finished. All done

- Yonghui
- Kopia Integration items
- PodVolume refactor
- Issue investigation & fix
- Xun/Bruce
- Fix some CSI corner cases.
- Add exclude/include cluster resource parameter.
- Ming Qiu
- Preparing v1.9.2 release
- Kopia Integration
- Velero performance test
- Danfeng Liu
- Add EKS pipeline in nightly
- Add opt-in/opt-out PV backup test in E2E test
- Qi Xu
- Build a Grafana dashboard and upload it on Grafana Lab
- Scott Seago
- Plugin versioning work:
- additional BIA v1 refactoring PRs awaiting further review:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5263
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5271
- RIA v1 refactoring:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5312
- VolumeSnapshotter v1 refactoring:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5318
- VSL credentials: merged. We still need GCP and Azure support (AWS support is already in place)
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Restic ensure repo timeout issue https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5334
- Fix PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5335

### Discussion topics
- Yonghui
- `Restic` daemonset rename to `velero-node-agent` daemonset
- `default-volumes-to-restic` option
rename to `default-to-pod-volumes`
- Issue https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5277
- Xun/Bruce
- Proposal to separate resource filter into cluster scope and namespace scope: [PR 5333](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5333)
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Have we tested CSI snapshots with label selector as backup criteria ?
- Daniel
- Discuss the issues that have "1.10-candidate-rh" - OK to remove?:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A1.10-candidate-rh
- Discuss the scope of v2 plugins
# September 6, 2022
### Attendees
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wes Hayutin (Red Hat)
- Pradeep Chaturvedi (VMware)
### Status Updates
v1.9.2: PRs identified for cherrypick: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5266
1.10: feature freeze in one week:
Feature Freeze: Sep 14
FC: Oct 19
RC1: Nov 2
RC2: TBA
GA: Nov 21

- Scott Seago
- Plugin versioning work:
- Phuong's initial PR merged
- additional BIA v1 refactoring PRs awaiting further review:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5263
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5271
- POC PRs for biav2 implementation: These PRs are not for merging but for demonstrating that the plugin versioning scheme in place is fully-functional. I've created a test BIA v2 interface definition with an additional `Foo() bool` method, and a velero-plugin-examples PR which implements both v1 and v2 BIA plugins using the current v1 and POC v2 plugin definitions. Velero is invoking only v2 BIA plugins (directly for v2 plugins, via adapter for v1 plugins) and both v1 and v2 plugins are called properly.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5278
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-example/pull/66
- next steps:
- refactoring for RIA, volumesnapshotter, and other plugin types as time permits. RIA and volumesnapshotter are most important for the first pass as those are the ones needed by the (async) item action plugin design.
- Actual implementation of v2 interfaces for BIA, RIA, and volume snapshotter, once the item action plugin design is approved
- (async) Item action plugin design, still awaiting final review:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- VSL credentials: feedback received, will update doc and code comments in response to review this week.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
### Discussion topics
- Shubham
- Velero 1.9.2 CP confirmation ?
- Pradeep
- During VMware Explore even, few Velero users asked to consider support for NFS as BSL https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/1229

# August 24, 2022
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Xun/Bruce Jiang (VMware)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Emily McMullan (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell EMC)
### Status Updates
v1.9.1: Released, fixed 11 issues
Kopia Integration：On track, the nearest target is to make through the two PodVolume Backup/Restore paths from end to end
Kubuilder refactor：VSL controller/BackupSync controller/GC controller done
Data Mover Design: A demo is delivered by Shubham, which shows the complete workflow of CSI snapshot data movement

- Yonghui
- Work on Kopia Integration items
- PR review
- Xun/Bruce
- Backup Sync controller refactor
- Community issues support
- Investigate issues [5120](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5120) and [5035](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5035)
- Daniel
- PR review
- Add parameter to velero server to control the uploader type
- Qi
- Refactor GC controller with kubebuilder
- Danfeng
- E2E tests scripting for B/R CRD with Enable API groups feature on
- fix issues of exclude label E2E test
- Clean Backups after each test to release space of BSL
- Ming Qiu
- Working on Uploader Integration：
- PR [kopia](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5221) and [restic](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5214)
- Wenkai Yin
- Work on Kopia integration items
- PR review
- Scott Seago
- Bug fix PR around empty namespace list: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5236
- Item Action Progres monitoring design
- Further review welcome: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- VSL credentials work
- One approval received, awaiting second one
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- Plugin versioning status question:
- I would be available to help out if necessary since it's needed for the item action progress and data mover features for 1.10
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Existing resources edge case PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5239

### Discussion Topic
- Daniel
- 1.10 candidates we think should be deferred:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adefer-candidate
- The delay of the feature freeze date and FC/GA for v1.10:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.10-Roadmap
- There is the 5th Wednesday of this month again, will we have the community meeting?
- Shubham Pampattiwar
- Datamover Demo (OADP CSI Datamover)
- Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVsg5l0KXqq5EoLqW8MfXu5OG262-szA/view?usp=sharing
- Demo Video:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q0M_7JvpRwnZgPirHUPFEbHAfnnZdC59/view?usp=sharing
- Youtube link(demo starts on 59th minute): https://youtu.be/Y2TecK4kSzQ

# August 16, 2022
### Attendees
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Shubham
- Working on https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5223
- Workong OADP datamover demo to be scheduled on Aug 23/24

# August 10, 2022
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Xun/Bruce Jiang (VMware)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)

### Status Updates

Kopia Integration：On track, several PRs have been submitted/merged
v1.9.1: 9 issue fixes are included, all merged; Release may be ready next week. Complete issue list https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/milestone/44?closed=1
Kubuilder refactor：VSL refactor is done; BackupSync refactor is in progress
Data Mover Design: Phase-1 PR all comments has been addressed, ready for review & merge; depending PR Item Action Progress Monitoring is ongoing; following PRs may be started concurrently

- Daniel Jiang
- Vacation (back to office on 15th Aug)
- Yonghui
- Work on Kopia Integration items. Two more PRs are submitted/merged
- Issue investigation
- Ming Qiu
- Pre released 1.9.1 rc1
- Working on Kopia file system uploader Integration. one related pr is submit, others are underway
- Xun/Bruce Jiang
- Fixed two CSI related issues for v1.9.1.
- Customer tickets support.

- Qi Xu
- Work on issue 2413
- Scott
- Item Action Progres monitoring design
- Added section near the end referencing related PRs from Dave which may need modifying and/or reverting as part of implementation.
- Further review welcome: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- VSL credentials work
- Revised PR based on more recent refactoring or BSL creds work (refactoring done after the initial PR implementation)
- One approval received, awaiting second one
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- Shubham
- Addressed the remaining comments on Datamover design Phase-1 PR, need ACKs.

- Wenkai Yin
- Work on Kopia integration items.

- Danfeng Liu
- Add AKS pipeline for nightly test.
- Add namespace mapping E2E test.

### Discussion Topic
- Shubham
- On OpenShift 4.11 (Kubernetes 1.24) we are seeing an error(not warning) related to the restoration of volumesnapshotclass that it already exists, not reproducilbe on earlier versions. Restore fails with the following logs, This is added as an error by the restore controller because the create call itself is incomplete due to admission webhooks validation, had the create call executed and Velero had received an `IsalreadyExists` this would have been a warning. Any thoughts on how to handle such cases ?

time="2022-07-14T14:34:44Z" level=error msg="error restoring example-snapclass: admission webhook \"volumesnapshotclasses.snapshot.storage.k8s.io\" denied the request: default snapshot class: example-snapclass already exits for driver: pd.csi.storage.gke.io" logSource="pkg/restore/restore.go:1357" restore=openshift-adp/mysql-42edcb0a-0381-11ed-9e9d-902e163f806c
time="2022-07-14T14:34:45Z" level=error msg="Cluster resource restore error: error restoring volumesnapshotclasses.snapshot.storage.k8s.io/example-snapclass: admission webhook \"volumesnapshotclasses.snapshot.storage.k8s.io\" denied the request: default snapshot class: example-snapclass already exits for driver: pd.csi.storage.gke.io" logSource="pkg/controller/restore_controller.go:500" restore=openshift-adp/mysql-42edcb0a-0381-11ed-9e9d-902e163f806c

- We from Red Hat side would like to demonstrate a OADP tech preview feature - "CSI Datamover". Will help bring more clarity regarding datamover. Does 24th Aug (China) and 23rd Aug (US) sound good for demo ? After the community updates maybe ?

# August 02, 2022
### Attendees
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Pradeep Chaturvedi (VMware)

Status Updates:
- Shubham
- Working on updating Datamover design doc.
- Phuong
- Update on Velero plugin versioning.

Discussion topics:

# July 27, 2022
### Attendees
- Yonghui Li (VMware)
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun Jiang (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Qi Xu (VMware)

### Status Updates

Kopia Integration design #4926 has been merged. Work items have been started and on track.
Kubuilder refactor work items are in progress.
V1.9.1 is in progress, some cherry-pick PRs #5150, #5134 have been submitted.

- Daniel
- Made change to the podvolumebackup, podvolumerestore and resticrepository CRDs, resticrepository CRD has been renamed to backuprepository
- Will continue to make update in the velero binary to support uploader-type as a parameter
- Review PRs

- Yonghui
- Work on Kopia Integration items. A PR is submitted https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5142

- Ming Qiu
- Working on Kopia file system uploader related configurations and kopia progress monitoring

- Bruce(Xun) Jiang
- Refactor VolumeSnapshotLocation
- Fixed [issue 5140](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5140)

- Danfeng Liu
- Add nightly pipeline with managed Kubernetes service

- Wenkai Yin
- Working on spliting the restic packages [#5055](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5055) and already submitted a draft PR [#5143](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5143)

- Scott
- Item Action Progres monitoring design
- Responded to additional feedback today
- Still need to look at open impl PR based on prior design to see if any further changes needed.
- Further review welcome: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- VSL credentials work
- Started to revise PR based on more recent refactoring or BSL creds work (refactoring done after the initial PR implementation) Will update PR next week
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- Away on PTO 28 Jul-2 Aug
- Shubham
- Datamover design phase 1: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4768 , Should we merge this PR ?
- Need Item Action Progress monitoring design to get merged for datamover impl but maybe I can start with CRDs design?

### Discussion Topic
- Daniel
- Discuss Phuong's concern regarding plugin versioning refactor: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C021GPR1L3S/p1658510831565139
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4943
- Launch the velero data mover working group (Xun has submitted PR to create a slack channel)and looking forward to merging the PR #4768
- Has the decision made on meeting time? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/5091

- Shubham
- Are we targeting Parallel B/R operations for Velero 1.10

# July 19, 2022
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
- Scott
- BSL validation bug fix -- main PR merged, release-1.9 branch PR needs one more review.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5134
- Item Action Progres monitoring design
- Updated based on early feedback
- Still need to look at open impl PR based on prior design to see if any further changes needed.
- Further review welcome: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108
- VSL credentials work
- Looking into recent feedback, will update PR or respond to comments
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864

### Discussion Topic
- Orlix - vacations anyone?
- Scott - any updates on the meeting time change discussion? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/5091
- Scott - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4943
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# July 13, 2022
### Attendees
Daniel Jiang (VMware)
Xun/Bruce Jiang (VMware)
Wenkai Yin(VMware)
Ming Qiu(VMware)
Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
Qi Xu (VMware)
Yonghui Li (VMware)
Danfeng Liu (VMware)
Scott Seago (Red Hat)
WenkaiYin(VMware)
Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)

### Status Updates
Kopia Integration design comes to be finalized. Tasks have been broken down and assigned.
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aarea%2Fkopia-integration

- Daniel
- Review the design and breakdown tasks for kopia integration
- Fixed #4815 (stacktrace lost for nil pointer issue in plugin)
- Working on updating the CRDs for kopia integration.
- Reviewing the Data Mover related PRs (WIP)

- Yonghui
- Finish Kopia Integration design and revolve comments
- Break down Kopia Integration tasks
- Work on Kopia Integration tasks

- Ming Qiu
- Work on Kopia file system uploader integration

- Bruce(Xun) Jiang
- Reduce CRD size by replace PodSpec in Restore with generic object.
- Review VSL credential and Item action progress montioring PR.

- Danfeng Liu
- Migration E2E test (Passed on AWS, Azure)
- Scott Seago
- Item Action Progress Monitoring Design
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/5108#discussion_r918470780
- Volume Snapshot Location Credentials
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4864
- Wenkai Yin
- Adjust the package structure for Kopia integration([#5055](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/5055))

### Discussion Topic
- Yonghui
- Any further discussion on Kopia Integration design before we merge it??
- Daniel
- (If there are more community member joining this meeting) Let's take another look at the v1.10 roadmap and call it done?
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.10-Roadmap
- I wish to foreshadow that the GA date may be delayed as velero team is taking more responsibilities in the company.

- Bruce(Xun) Jiang
- Anyone depends on PodSpec in Restore? Is it OK to replace it?
- Jiaolin Yang
- Feedback on Community Meeting Time: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/5091

# June 28, 2022
Not recorded as we just had a chat! :)
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell-EMC)
-
### Status Updates
- Orlin - OS Summit NA 22 - 52 ppl attended(marked) - will share video soon
### Discussion Topic
- Orlin - new community meeting time - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/5091

# June 28, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun/Bruce Jiang (VMware)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Danfeng Liu(VMware)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Qi Xu (VMware)
### Status Updates
- Ming Qiu
- Velero v1.9.0 GA in June 23rd.
- Daniel:
- v1.10 plan
- Review the design for kopia integration.
- Yonghui
- Kopia Integration Design
- Issue Investigation
- Xun Jiang
- Controller refacter with kubebuilder
- Studying Data Mover design document

- Wenkai Yin
- Review [BackupItemAction refactoring PR](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4943) which is part of work to support plugin versioning
- Issues investigation for the kopia integration work

- Danfeng Liu
- Scripting migrate E2E test

### Discussion Topic
- Daniel Jiang
- Discuss the v1.10 plan: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/wiki/1.10-Roadmap-(WIP)
- Nominate Yonghui as a maintainer of velero
- Yonghui
- Outstanding changes for kopia integration design

# June 14, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Xun/Bruce Jiang (VMWare)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Ming Qiu (VMware)
- Phuong Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
- Danfeng Liu (VMware)
### Status Updates
- Daniel:
- Post v1.9 FC test
- Prepare for rc1
- Initial discussion for v1.10 plan
- Yonghui
- Post v1.9 FC test
- Issue revisit & fix
- Xun/Bruce:
- Post v1.9 FC manual test and GCP E2E test.
- Issues support.
- Wenkai Yin
- Post v1.9 FC test
- Prepare for rc1
- Ming Qiu
- Post v1.9 FC test
- Prepare for rc1
- Eleanor
- My last Velero community meeting (at least for a bit)...
- Euclid Sun, a VMware PM based in Beijing, will be taking over as the PM for the VMware Velero team members
- Keep in touch - feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn!
- Yunqian
- 63 chars limit issue of InitContainer Name for velero-plugin-for-vsphere. Plan to file a issue.
- Expected release date of v1.9?

### Discussion Topic
- The warning in restore discovered by Scott (possibly related to restore status).
- Go through the kopia integration design https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4926
- Shubham:
- Working on a new plugin type proposal to facilitate asynchronous plugin processes during B/R

# June 7, 2022
### Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Yunqian Chen (Dell-EMC)
- Eleanor Millman (VMware)
- Tiger Kaovilai (Red Hat)
### Status Updates
- Orlin: 2 CfP for KubeCon submitted
- Eleanor: I'll be leaving VMware and the Velero team. Feel free to connect with me so we can keep in touch!
### Discussion Topic
- Phuong: Review Plugin Versioning part 1 (refactor BackupItemAction to v1) https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4943
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# May 24, 2022
### Attendees
- Daniel Jiang (VMware)
- Phuong N. Hoang (Dell-EMC)
- Scott Seago (Red Hat)
- Wenkai Yin(VMware)
- Jiaolin Yang (VMware)
- Shubham Pampattiwar (Red Hat)
- Ming Qiu(VMware)
### Status Updates
- Daniel
- Issue/PR grooming for 1.9 FC.
- Yonghui
- Unified Repository & Kopia Integration Design: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/4926
- PR Reivew

### Discussion Topic
- Daniel
- Feature complete for v1.9 after PR 4932 is merged. Will only merge bugfix PRs before RC.
- Upload progress monitor.
- Phuong: update on Plugin versioning.
- Scott: Brief announcement -- Shubham Pampattiwar has been approved as a Velero project maintainer

# 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.
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# 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