# 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 meetings are held every 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)_

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

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:_

# April 13, 2021
- carlisia
- PTO most of last week

| Description | Status |
| ----------- | :------ |
| [AWS tests for the RC2 · Issue #3623 · vmware-tanzu/velero](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3623) | ✅ |

- bridget
- Velero 1.6 has been released!
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.6.0
- dave
- Testing & release physics
- PR merging can resume

- ashish
- Mostly rc2 testing
### Discussion Topics
- Tunde had a question regarding restores to cloud providers, giving this error:
- `error executing PVAction for persistent volumes
Caused by POST https://ec2.region.gov x509 certificate signed by unknown authority`
- Issue opened: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/3677

### Contributor Shoutouts PRs
- None today.

### Contributor Shoutouts [Velero Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aanswered)
None this week. We do have [unanswered questions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a?discussions_q=category%3A%22Community+support+Q%26A%22+is%3Aunanswered).

# April 6, 2021
- carlisia
Theme for this week: more testing for the RC2 release.

| Description | Status |
| :----------- | :------ |
| [test install script](https://gist.github.com/carlisia/8b76bc24b78efbcd8932c60062babba1) | Wrote a tiny script for running multiple consecutive tests to install/uninstall Velero (wrt my AWS install/e2e failure) | ✅ |
| [Revert printer columns by carlisia · Pull Request #3652 · vmware-tanzu/velero](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3652) | My PR merged 🆗 |
| [Update docs for v1.6.0 RC2 by carlisia · Pull Request #3660 · vmware-tanzu/velero](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3660) | My PR merged 🆗 |
| [Velero v1.6.0-RC2 is out, please test! · Discussion #3663 · vmware-tanzu/velero](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/3663) | Pre-release |

- bridget
- Released [v1.5.4](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.5.4)
- Includes bug fixes and build script changes
- ashish
- Mostly release testing last week and
- Tracking down to revert printer column change. [Issue 3656](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3656) This still needs investigation as to why
- dave
- Testing
- Velero vision and strategy planning
### Discussion Topics
- What was the outcome/progress from last week’s discussion topics?
- Last week...

- Eleanor
- Have we considered directing help requests to Stack Overflow, rather than answering on the Velero slack? The Spring team does this and has found it helpful. Maybe this would inspire more Velero community members to help out those asking questions.

### Contributor Shoutouts PRs
- None today.

### Contributor Shoutouts [Velero Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aanswered)
None this week. We do have [unanswered questions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a?discussions_q=category%3A%22Community+support+Q%26A%22+is%3Aunanswered).

# March 30, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- carlisia
- Theme: more unblocking of items for the v1.6 release.
- On community support

| | Description | Status |
| :----: | ----------- | :------ |
| [#3618](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3618) | [velero] Make uninstall more robust and informative (release blocker) | My PR merged 🆗| |
| [#3600](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3600) | [velero] [bug maybe] (Intermittently) Cannot install or run e2e tests on AWS due to deletebackuprequests failing to create and causing a server time out | Bug 🐞 |
| [#3629](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3629) | [velero] Runs vSphere tests with snapshots | Reviewed PR ✅ |
| [#3634](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3634) | [velero] Allow Dockerfiles to be configurable | Reviewed PR ✅ |

- dave
- E2E tests with volume snapshots running/passing on vSphere, AWS & Azure
- Release management

- bridget
- RC is available: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.6.0-rc.1

- nrb
- Catching up after illness
- Konveyor BOF: Thursday, May 6: 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
- ashish
- Running tests on the v1.6 RC
- eleanor
- Quick product update

### Discussion Topics
- What was the outcome/progress from last week’s discussion topics?
- Last week...
- Frankie & Rafael: Would it be feasible for us to to import backup and restore packages as libraries and use these remotely from a cluster to backup and restore on other clusters? One reason to do this is to increase efficiency as Velero would only need to be installed on a service cluster and not every cluster. Another is security, where customers do not want to install Velero, which have pods with priviledged access, onto their production clusters.
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/131
- carlisia
- Is it useful to have a relase checklist? https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3623

### Contributor Shoutouts PRs
- None today.

### Contributor Shoutouts [Velero Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aanswered)
None this week. We do have [unanswered questions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a?discussions_q=category%3A%22Community+support+Q%26A%22+is%3Aunanswered).

# March 23, 2021
### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- ashish
- Working with Eleanor, our new PM to familiarize with 1.7 Roadmap.
- bridget
- Created a document to describe test cases for releases ([PR 3601](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3601))
- carlisia
| | Description | Status |
| :----: | ----------- | :------ |
| | Tests for v1.6 release (release-blocker) | ✅ |
| [#3605](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3605) | [velero] Fix uninstall + remove left over resources after test failure (release-blocker) | PR open for review 📬 |

Next:
- have built the v1.2.0 images for plugins but still need to create releases (pending tests)
- review Bridget's PR
- dave
- Working thru getting 1.6 volume snapshots tests working on vSphere

# March 16, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- carlisia
- Theme: unblocking items for the v1.6 release.

| | Description | Status |
| :----: | ----------- | :------ |
| [#3489](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3489) | [velero] Use Credential from BSL for restic commands (release-blocker) | reviewed PR ✅ |
| [#3559](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3559) | [velero] Add E2E test for multiple credentials (release-blocker) | reviewed PR ✅ |
| [#3527](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3527) | [velero] Prefer conditional waiting over magic sleep (release-blocker) | reviewed PR ✅ |
| [#3583](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3583) | [velero] Restore progress reporting bug fix (release-blocker) | reviewed PR ✅ |
| [#3568](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3568) | [velero] Update upgrade docs (release-blocker) | PR merged 🆗 |
| [#3584](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3584) | [velero] Improve GH Action PR assign + labeling | PR open for review 📬 |
| [#3591](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3591) | [velero] Improve plugin release instructions | PR open for review 📬 |
| [AWS](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-aws/pull/75) / [GCP](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/57) / [Azure](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/94) | [plugins] Update changelogs | PRs merged 🆗 |
| Issue [3493](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3493) | Initial scoping out of work for packaging with Carvel | Meeting ☎️ |
-Next:
- push tags and run tests against v1.2.0 of the 3 Velero maintainted plugins
- plan the rest of the week and start planning/organizing for v1.7
- PR reviews

- bridget
- Focusing on 1.6 release blockers
- Multiple credentials work is complete
- dave
- E2E tests with volume snapshots
- Release candidate when E2E tests running/passing on AWS & vSphere
- RC tests with latest/earliest K8S supported, Azure, AWS, Kind, vSphere, GCP
- Manual tests pass
### Discussion topics
- carlisia
- Welcome Eleanor, who officially starts this week! (PM for Velero)
- e2e tests for Velero upgrades?

### Contributor Shoutouts PRs
- [@codegold79](https://github.com/codegold79): [Restore progress reporting bug fix](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3583)

### Contributor Shoutouts [Velero Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aanswered)
None this week. We do have [unanswered questions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a?discussions_q=category%3A%22Community+support+Q%26A%22+is%3Aunanswered).

# March 9, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- nrb
- Not a lot of progress on code items, mostly working on process stuff and internal builds.
- bridget
- BSL and Plugin PRs merged for multiple credentials
- Restic PR now ready for review: [PR 3489](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3489)
- Working on E2E test for multiple credentials
- carlisia
- Last week: community support + PR reviews of release blockers
- This week: PR reviews + review of upload progress design + resolving support issue from last week (restore gets stuck restoring an nfs-pv using restic - (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3450)
- dave
- vSphere stuff
- Updated ROADMAP.md with 1.7.0 items (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/blob/main/ROADMAP.md)
- This week - community support
- ashish
- E2E tests flakyness:
- Issue https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3532
- PR https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3527
- Restic upgrade:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3528
### Discussion topics
- Eleanor Millman will be our new PM starting March 15, 2021
- Nolan: Go over [release-blockers for v1.6.0](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/projects/4?card_filter_query=label%3Arelease-blocker)
- Nolan: [Velero Roadmap update for v1.7.0](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#170-roadmap)
- We will be moving to date-based releases, probably close to Kubernetes release dates.
- This would be a 4 month cadence, and give us more realistic timeframes; what do folks think about this?
- No matter what timeframe we pick, we'll be shipping what's included at that time and only stopping for critical bugs.
- Leave comments on https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3551
- Nolan: Working on a Velero vision for the future. Please leave a comment [on this hackmd](https://hackmd.io/a2nV4KtbS26FjOK7aVyXIw) if you'd like to share your thoughts.
### Contributor Shoutouts PRs
- [@jenting](https://github.com/jenting): [Add jenting as reviewer](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/53)
- [@jenting](https://github.com/jenting): [Add jenting as reviewer](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/91)
- [@jenting](https://github.com/jenting): [[velero] Helm v2 deprecated](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/226)
- [@jenting](https://github.com/jenting): [[velero] Update chart maintainer](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/225)

### Contributor Shoutouts [Velero Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aanswered)


# March 2, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- bridget
- Multiple credentials support
- Adding docs and E2E test
- Need one more approval on [PR 3442](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3442), this will unblock [PR 3489](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3489)

- nrb
- Not a lot of progress on roadmap last week, dealing with internal TKG builds
- ashish
- Working on making e2e tests as part of our release pipeline.
- dave
- Discussion on upload progress monitoring
- Working on reviewing outstanding feature backlog
### Discussion Topics
- What was the outcome/progress from last week’s discussion topics?
- Findings for what happens when a resource is in multiple API groups when processed by a custom plugin - new documentation merged in [#3498](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3498)

- v1.7.0 rough roadmap
- Velero debug support, based on [crashd](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/crash-diagnostics)
- Trying to get CSI snapshot support to GA
- Plugin versioning
- Snapshot upload progress
- Manifest data structure
- Distroless container base image to reduce attack surface
- Velero [Carvel](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel) installation
- More detailed test plan; get more thorough in what we're actually looking for out of tests

### Contributor Shoutouts (PRs and Discussions)
- [@codegold79](https://github.com/codegold79): [Update in-code documentation to show resources can be specified with group name](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3498)
- [@slavina-rumenova](https://github.com/slavina-rumenova): [Adding check if disk description is empty](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/46)
- [@justbert](https://github.com/justbert): [Add documentation around minimum required permissions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/85)
- [@tareqhs](https://github.com/tareqhs): [[velero] customize client-qps and client-burst](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/222)
- [@peterekhator](https://github.com/peterekhator): [[velero] feat: add nodeselector for restic](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/218)
- [@cyril-corbon](https://github.com/cyril-corbon): [[velero] feat: add annotations for velero deployment and restic daemonset](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/217)
- [@codegold79](https://github.com/codegold79): [[Velero] Add velero component label and update docs](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/215)

# Feb 23, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- bridget
- Multiple credentials support
- BSL support in [PR 3442](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3442)
- Restic support in draft [PR 3489](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3489)
- Plugin support for [AWS](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-aws/pull/69), [Azure](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/90), [GCP](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-gcp/pull/52)
- Currently running tests and need to write docs
- Added fix for restic restores when using namespace mapping: [PR 3475](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3475)
- Released [Azure plugin v1.1.2](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/releases/tag/v1.1.2)
- carlisia
- Addressed code reviews for the DownloadRequest controller - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3004
- Looking at an issue with a capi cluster
- PR reviews
- nrb
- Reviewing [blockers for v1.6.0](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Arelease-blocker)
- Continuing to refine roadmap out to v1.9+
- Testing an update to restic v0.12.0
- dave
- Working on road map
- Open review/discussion for Upload Progress monitoring design doc
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3416
- Zoom - Feb 25, 2021 9:00 AM Pacific - https://VMware.zoom.us/j/94331975442?pwd=V2Rmci9kMjlOMWlHQUZqSkZKQ0ttdz09&from=addon
- ashish
- Finishing up plumbing work for Velero e2e tests on internal platform.

### Discussion Topics
- Any rotating topics we want to add here?
- What was the outcome/progress from last week's discussion topics?
- nrb: Started a design proposal for [a backup manifest data structure](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3466)
- @codegold79 / @brito-rafa: Findings for what happens when a resource is in multiple API groups when processed by a custom plugin. Related issue: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3491
- Plugin authors should specify fully qualified names in the ResourceSelector type
- Action: Document ResourceSelector type
- Action: Resources that have multiple views with shared UUIDs - define how to handle these properly on restore
- Example: Deployments which move versions from v1.15 -> v1.16
- Example: customresourcedefinitions.apiextensions.k8s.io v1beta1 -> v1 introduced different fields, but the object was the same one
- dave: Using an outbound proxy - Any experience from the group on best practices?

### Contributor Shoutouts
- [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani): [added documentation for how velero handles encryption](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3463)
- [@aslafy-z](https://github.com/aslafy-z): [fix typo in item_hook_handler](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3361)
- [@aristosvo](https://github.com/aristosvo): [Security configuration Azure Storage Account with AKS](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/88)

# Feb 16, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- carlisia
- Addressing code reviews for the DownloadRequest controller
- PR reviews
- bridget
- Community support last week
- Multiple credentials support
- Draft PR for [BSL support](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3442)
- Working on Restic support
- Will continue on plugin support
- Would like to release the Azure plugin this week
- To release [PR 87](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/87)

- dave
- Finishing up multi-cloud E2E tests PR
- Worked with Nolan on roadmap
- nrb
- Finished up some github actions

### Community Shoutout
- [@codegold79](https://github.com/codegold79): [Use label to select Velero deployment in plugin cmd](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3447)

# Feb 9, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- nrb
- Helping implement credential support on volume snapshot locations
- [Opened a PR to close issues if they're stale.](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3427) (PRs will not be closed as stale)
- [Opened a PR for labeling issues and adding a PR template](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3431)
- Working with Dave to solidify a roadmap for the next few versions
- Reviews of [items defined as release blockers](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Arelease-blocker).
- This list is incomplete, but these are the PRs we're prioritizing
- Aim to get a pre-release of v1.6.0 out by end of February
- Playing with ["crashd"](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/crash-diagnostics) to get info about a Velero install within a cluster.
- Getting some sort of bundling would be helpful so we can put the Velero crashd scripts in our repo.
- Would be part of a solution to [`velero debug`](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/675) or something similar

- bridget
- Working on multiple credential support
- Blocked on [#3190](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3190) and [#3409](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3409) (working off these branches locally)
- Will push branches for support in BSLs and VSLs once the above are merged
- Work on restic support is still ongoing
- carlisia
- Updated DownloadRequest PR, ready for review
- Wrapping up addressing reviews for the BSL credentials field PR
- Next: review PRs related to the multiple credentials change
- After: PR review of the e2e tests
- dave
- Community support last week
- Upload progress design doc - https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3416
- Will schedule community design review on upload progress
- E2E tests running automatically

### Discussion Topics
- shawn-hurley (Shawn Hurley)/dave (Dave Smith-Uchida) - Have the Velero CLI use the active namespace in the current context (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3194)
- This has links to multitenancy design - if Velero watches for backups & restores in different namespaces, this becomes important
- Nolan owes architecture diagrams
- Rahul Rathi - Ways to capture the volume size corresponding to every snapshot contained in a backup
- Currently there is no place where Velero captures the snapshot sizes
- Can the velero VolumeSnapshotter API add a way to report the size of the snapshot and the size of the volume?
- Dave - snapshots could have dependencies
- This is why there's a request for the original volume size
- Nolan
- Does the CSI API expose this?
- There's a restoreSize field there
- We'd need to add another field on the CSI objects, which is viable
- How would this work with restic
- Could use PV's size to start with
- Also helps on restore
- Dave - Can we get use cases?
- May need a dry run
- Give users an idea of how much data is going to be restored?
- This would be hard to use across clouds
- Requirements in priority
- Volume size (in Velero and CSI API)
- The VolumeSnapshotters are eventually going to be deprecated, so we'll need to make sure it gets into CSI
- CSI and vSphere snapshots are a different path - they're BackupItemActions
- We have the PV YAML in the backup, and can scrape it
- Can we get a design doc?
- Frankie (codegold79)/Rafael (brito-rafa) - Update on PR #3133 (Enable API Groups Feature)

### Contributor Shoutouts
- [@a-mccarthy](https://github.com/a-mccarthy): [remove FAQ pages](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3408)
- [@mike1808](https://github.com/mike1808): [Add colors to describe command](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3275)
- [@shellwedance](https://github.com/shellwedance): [Modify InitContainer checking function that potentially incurs error](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3198)
- [@aslafy-z](https://github.com/aslafy-z): [[velero] feat: allow servicemonitor to be deployed in another namespace](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/213)

# Feb 2, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- carlisia:
- Addressing code review for:
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3004
- https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3190
- PR reviews

- bridget:
- Focusing on PR reviews
- Continuing on multiple credentials support
- Will open more PRs once dependent PRs are reviewed/merged
- dave
- Community support
- Upload progress tracking design
- jonas
- New website layout: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3279

### Discussion Topics
- pranavgaikwad (Pranav Gaikwad)
- Need help building Velero CLI

### Community Shoutouts
None this week (lots of PRs pending reviews)

# Jan 26, 2021

### Status Updates - items working towards roadmap
- nrb:
- Reviewing Frankie's PR for version negotiation at restore.
- Reviewing PRs that multi-creds work depends on.
- Tech debt items for v1.6.0 will be trimmed from the board this week and moved to v1.7.0
- bridget:
- Continuing work on multiple credentials support
- Reviewing PRs
- dave
- e2e tests across multi-cloud
- e2e test for multiple namespaces
### Discussion Topics
- Ritesh Patel from Nirmata will demo [Kyverno](https://kyverno.io/)
- Please reach out to me for any questions at: [e-mail]

- Pranav Gaikwad (@pranavgaikwad) Restore Progress feedback. Should the excluded resources be included in the count of items restored? Not included as per design.

- Have a question? You can ask in [the Discussion Q&A](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions/categories/community-support-q-a)

### Community Shoutouts
- [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani): [Raise logging level for PV deletion timeout](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3316)
- [@a-mccarthy](https://github.com/a-mccarthy): [Update docs to clarify backup location and relationship with other data](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3309)
- [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato): [[velero] Helm2 fix](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/205)
- [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato): [add stable repo to the new location](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/202)

# Jan 19, 2021
### Status Updates
- carlisia
- Almost done with addressing reviews for Download Request (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3004)

- bridget
- Released v1.5.3
- Helped out with some internal build processes
- Working on POC for [multiple credentials](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/commit/8e967225319753f59f2e19c6cfa7da9fa1375cf8)
- Need to review outstanding PRs

- nrb
- Internal build updates for Velero v1.5.x series (build changes taking a while)
- Reviewed timeout design w/ Phuong
- My notes: https://hackmd.io/rGQuMa3XRDm7BW-CVVLAsg
- dave
- E2E tests running in AWS, Azure clouds
- Working on next tests, CI/CD integration

### Discussion Topics
- carlisia
- We are using GH Discussions for community support now (and other topics): https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/discussions
- bridget
- Multiple credentials POC demo
- Velero PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/3299
- AWS plugin PR: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-aws/pull/69
- phuong: quick update on the plugin timeout design
- Step 1. Add golang contexts into the plugin interfaces
- Uses new `WithContext` variations to each fuction for backwards compatibility
- Step 2. Determine timeouts & cancellation behavior
- Plugin versioning: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3285
- Helps with modifying plugin interfaces without requiring everyone upgrading in lock step
- High level: looking for a pod-level timeout that covers ALL PVs connected.
- Nolan's notes: https://hackmd.io/rGQuMa3XRDm7BW-CVVLAsg
- Recording of the meeting: https://Dell.zoom.us/rec/share/EtlVa0vDa_fM0pzxArc9Izbq1LJwNpc1v5bfWcIwjCGzC4KDkjBqkudCWAGZqqI.e01a98H7-RO0y2_q Passcode: xH.vY3D5
- Nolan & Dave will be doing a presentation on Velero at the Data Protection Working Group on Wednesday 1/26, 9am Pacific time
- #wg-data-protection on the kubernetes slack
### Community Shoutouts

# Jan 12, 2021
### Status Updates
- dave
- e2e tests running in Azure
- Working on e2e tests running against all clouds as install target
- nrb
- Out most of last week due to family emergency
- Reviewed https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3191 for the cause of throttling log messages
- Increase --client-burst & --client-qps if you see this. We'll get this increased in v1.6
- Opened an issue for some of Velero's upcoming rearchitecture, https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/issues/3229
- Covering community support w/ Carlisia this week
- bridget
- Community support last week
- Working on [multiple credentials support](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2403)
- Need to make a decision on approach to take
- Need to follow up on some PRs that have been updated
- carlisia
- This week will be PR reviews and addressing code reviews on my PRs
- Sharing community support with Nolan
- PTO this Thu and Fri

### Discussion Topics
- dave
- Azure issues with memory limit and plug-in failure. Hard to debug some plug-in failures.
- nrb - There is an issue w/ Azure plugin where object storage chunk uploading uses the maximum memory of the Velero pod.
- nrb - Adding ~10 log messages into the Backup CR seems useful, especially when it can't upload to object store
- Dylan
- Ability to selectively patch resources on per restore basis.
- Use case is Secrets & CRs
- User wants to continually patch Secrets vs replace it
- Operators watching CRs, they wanted to make sure the operators were going to keep working
- Current design of plugins is very much all or nothing.
- Plugins should be able to allow mutations or patching
- Give post hooks the backup manifest to help
- When patching, this is a merge operation. That may result in a merged, incorrect object at the end
- Can we add a way to download individual JSON from a backup to then re-submit with Kubectl?
- This exists with the `velero backup download` command, but you need to take it out of a tarball
- Can we modify the restoreitemaction plugin API to return an action?
- The plugin could identify the relevant fields and return a patch object & the patch action
- Action - Alay and Dylan to work on design doc
- Phuong: ([e-mail]) invite to design meeting for Velero plugin timeout 9am PST Friday Jan 15th. This is the Zoom meeting: https://Dell.zoom.us/j/91078486282?pwd=Yk9sU1UwT0NScXE2Q2oyRGV3K002QT09
- This is for timing out plugins generically
- Enhance the plugins to use the Context for timeouts
- Please add to https://groups.google.com/g/projectvelero
- carlisia
- hit a temporary snag with using GH Discussion: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/3105
- is HackMD getting slow again? Time to archive?
- nrb
- Current v1.6.0 status: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/projects/4
- Testing is moving along
- Need to get multiple credential support design approved
- bridget
- Can we do a v1.5.3 release in the meantime before 1.6?
- nrb: :thumbsup:
- We need to include some patches like properly deleting when DeleteItemActions are missing, and fixing include/exclude plugin logic (I don't have a full list)

### Contributor Shoutouts
- [@justenwalker](https://github.com/justenwalker)/Bryson Shepherd (on Slack): [fix: missing results in ListObjects/CommonPrefixes](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero-plugin-for-microsoft-azure/pull/87)
- [@eyenx](https://github.com/eyenx): [[velero] feat(schedule): add annotation templating](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/pull/199)

# Jan 5, 2021
### Status Updates
- carlisia
- Back from 2 weeks PTO
- This week will be PR reviews and addressing code reviews on my PRs
- bridget
- Catching up after PTO
- On community support this week
- Will pick up work on multiple credentials support again
- [PR #2403](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pull/2403) needs another review
- nrb
- Also catching up after PTO - need to catch up on opened issues and outstanding PRs
### Discussion Topics
- carlisia
- are we ready to start with the GitHub Discussion? I started a list of potential categories here: https://hackmd.io/OFFTp_RIRmOQ7xwhxkv0yA

### Contributor Shoutouts