Hi folks,

We held our regular design meeting today via Hangout. Summary of brief discussion:

# 31st July 2019

# Using celery inside LAVA [Rémi]

Could be used for: * Parsing description.yaml * Replace crontabs * Compressing logs * Removing old jobs * Sending logs to ES * Splitting scheduling * notifications

# August release ? [Steve]

Yes - aim for 28th The release will have database changes

Tag the day before to let some time for lavafed to test the tag

# LAVA sessions for Connect [Steve]

Three sessions has been accepeted: * LAVA Users' Forum * Hacking and contributing to LAVA * Advanced testing in python

# Support packages in Debian removed/being removed [Steve]

* lava-tool removed (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lava-tool) * django-compat marked for removal ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/django-compat) * django-hijack depends on django-compat, marked for removal too ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/django-hijack) * Rémi will remove the dependency/mention * VLANd needs some rework to go to [python 3]( https://git.lavasoftware.org/lava/vland/issues/5)

# Migrating to django 2.2 (next LTS release) [Milosz]

* lava source code itself is compatible with django 2.2 * Dependencies on filters and rest framework * Still waiting for a release compatible with django 2.0 * Trying to contact the maintainer to give some help (if needed)

# gitlab-runner on aarch64 [Steve]

The current package in [Debian]( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gitlab-ci-multi-runner) was a bit too old. GitLab don't provide anything for arm64 but the Debian maintainer uploaded a new version that fixe our issues.

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Cheers,