Add meeting notes for 2021-06-09 (saltstack#145)

* Add meeting notes for 2021-06-09

Meeting notes from 2021-06-09 for wg-Release.
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+# 2021-06-09 WG Release Meeting
+
+topic: Salt Release Coordination Community Meeting  
+date: 2021-06-09  
+time: 17:00 CEST (UTC+2)  
+where: zoom online meeting, hosted by VMware  
+
+
+# Attendees (8x)
+
+* Bengamin Drung (Debian DD Salt packager)
+* Fede Grau (Debian community member Salt team) @donfede
+*  Alexander Graul (SUSE)
+* Patrick McLean (Gentoo)
+* Sage Robins (VMware Salt) @sagetherage
+* Pablo Suárez Hernández (SUSE; led the meeting) @meaksh
+* Randy Thompson (GoDaddy; salt/Tiamat)
+* Victor Zhestkov @vzhestkov
+
+
+# Agenda
+ - walkthrough of how doing releases of Salt at SUSE
+ - goals to do the same with other distros, aiming to learn and improve
+ - maybe Tiamat review
+
+
+# Notes
+ - (PSH) reviewed agenda 
+    [see slide 02; 
+        https://github.com/saltstack/community/projects/60 
+        https://github.com/saltstack/community/issues/143 ]
+ - (AG screenshare) walkthrough of SUSE Salt release process
+    [see slide 03;
+        https://github.com/openSUSE/salt/wiki#opensuse-salt-packaging ]
+    - SUSE supports multiple distributions, including openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
+    - use "OBS" (Open Build Service; [not Open Broadcast Software]) to build
+    - new Salt releases amounts to creating new branch on openSUSE
+    [see slide 04;
+        https://github.com/openSUSE/salt-packaging/tree/3000/salt ]
+    - helper tool generates patches, in a different repo (Git on github)
+    - SUSE uses upstream tarball as is, with patches on top
+    - Git commit messages, often a single line, are used to autogenerate Changelog
+    - OBS can build containers and OS images
+    [see slide 05:
+        https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:saltstack:products ]
+    - due to "political reasons", SUSE does not change the version number
+    - RPM spec file quick review
+    - "MU branches are complicated" [seem ok to ignore initially]
+    - OBS follows a similar process to Git with "branches"
+    - OBS uses a "service" file
+    [see slide 06]
+    - OBS also builds for different distributions, including CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu
+    - "nothing from pip is used directly; only SUSE's own validated RPMs"
+
+ - Q/A for walkthrough of SUSE Salt release process
+    - BD Q - "version number review"
+        "upstream version-release.rebuild"
+
+    - FG Q - "do you package full Salt or just minion client for other distros,
+      and why? are Windows builds included?"
+        [answered in part by OBS screenshare; full Salt is built if possible]
+        "SUSE builds various Salt packages for another software product they
+        support 'uyuni' (spacewalk successor)
+        [ https://www.uyuni-project.org/ ]
+        "no current support for Windows"
+
+    - FG Q - "are repos accessed only by SUSE employees, or also community?"
+        "SUSE uses open development model hosted on github, and are open to
+        community contributions; though few are received"
+        "in OBS members have 'submit' and 'review' process, much like Git and github"
+     [see slide 07
+        https://build.opensuse.org/package/requests/systemsmanagement:saltstack:products:testing/salt ]
+
+
+ - (17:30) (Randy) impromptu review of "tiamat"
+    [ ? https://gitlab.com/saltstack/pop/tiamat ]
+    - overview "pop wrapper to pi-installer"; helps build any codebase
+    - pulls in all deps via requriments, source package
+    - also includes shared libraries (optional)
+    - creates a dynamic binary, "staticx"
+    [ ? https://pypi.org/project/staticx/ ]
+    - still in beta; systemd bug starting
+    - tiamat is used at GoDadddy
+    - BD Q - purpose?
+        "easier deployment of Salt, via a single binary for master, minion"
+        "lower entry to deploy code"
+    - unclear if a Salt Project priority, but GoDaddy is using it
+    - shared library security patches can optionally be used
+    - pip security updates, "pip install within binary"
+    - RT has some ideas to support SUSE model of using RPMs instead of pip
+    - regular tiamat contributors include "Pedro, RT, and ?'karl'"
+
+
+ - (17:45) Open Table
+   - BD "patches" and getting all patches upstream
+     - Debian has ~15-20 currently; SUSE has hundreds
+     - ideally upstream patches have open MR/PR
+     - AG "SUSE tries to present patches upstream" "some patches are SUSE specific"
+     - PSH "SUSE procedures require upstream PR with patches"
+   - PSH review next meeting action items [see below]
+     - check if there is interest in OBS quick intro?
+   - next meeting in 1 month [FIXME: actual date]
+
+
+# Action Items
+ - ?Debian (or Gentoo) prepare presentation of Salt release flow
+   - (FG) could be open to drafting some slides for Debian Salt Team review
+
+ - (17:56) close call
+
+