NetBox maintainers meeting minutes, 28 Mar 2024

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NetBox maintainers meeting minutes, 28 Mar 2024

[Jeremy] Issue auto-assignment update

• Weighted rotation not supported by the action (issue opened)

Discussion:

• Abhi: Any chance that only certain issue types could be auto-assigned? I'm getting both feature and bug issues, and I'm not always the best person for feature stuff
• ↳ Jeremy: The auto-assignment is not issue ownership. The ask is really just to vet the issue for its compliance with our intake policy; if a FR is totally obvious as a non-fit, you might kick it out, but if in doubt, leave it open with status: under review (for FRs).
• ↳ Dan: Might we consider changing under review to voting? Jeremy: We definitely should reconsider this label, but voting might not be it. Dan: Could we have a bot provide some helpful tips to issue reporters post-triage?
• ↳ Jeff: I'm looking at inserting myself post-triage by providing a human reply on every issue that makes it through triage. Feels nicer than having a herd of bots doing all the replying. The question is whether I'll be able to scale it.
• ↳ Abhi: Have we looked at the langchain bot? Does natural language processing on historical issues to make helpful suggestions during issue triage period. Jeremy: Let's not introduce more bots right now if we can help it.

[Jeremy] v4.0 beta release - outstanding items (blocking items are marked with ❗️)

• #9583 (column filters) - See comment on PR
• ↳ Dan is mostly done with this one. Jeremy wants to spend a little more time to see if we can find a more efficient / effective way to do the form initialization; name matching gets us most of the way there but there are corner cases where the column name doesn't match the filter name.
• #13366 (release branch) - On hold
• ↳ Idea of changing the way we do branches around releases. Not a right-now topic, will handle during beta period.
• ❗️ #14736 (HTMX) - In final review (3/28)
• ↳ Jeremy plans to have this merged today.
• ❗️ #15043 (plugin migration doc) - On hold until beta release
• ↳ Everything you need to know to get your NetBox plugin ready for the 4.0 release – will merge at the last moment
• #15153 (REST API theme) - Jeremy to review
• ↳ Cosmetic improvement to the browseable REST API. Will not hold the beta for this if it's running late.
• ❗️ #15154 (uWSGI support) - In final review (3/28)
• ↳ uWSGI will be a supported alternative. gunicorn will continue to be the supported default, at least for now. Merge today or tomorrow.
• ❗️ #15464 (permission M2Ms) - To be completed today (3/28)
• ↳ Flipping the many:many permission assignments for users / groups and objects. Since we're introducing custom user and group models, now is a convenient time to make this change. It's not really impacting to end-users except via the REST API. It's pretty much done, but there's something about the user model (though not the group model) that's complicating the implementation a bit. Jeremy hopes to figure this out today.
• #15536 (tables menu bug) - Not started
• ↳ Annoying but not a blocker. We can handle in beta period.
• ❗️ #15552 (GraphQL API docs) - ??
• ↳ There's been a late-breaking change upstream in strawberry-django but Arthur has a handle on it.
• ❗️ #15553 (GraphQL filters bug) - Draft PR
• ↳ This one's more impactful than Update NB 4 docs 'GraphQL API' for Strawberry changes #15552, Arthur is on the case.

[Jeff] PyPI project name update

• The starter project currently occupying the netbox package name on PyPI appears abandoned, and I'm navigating the PEP 541 steps so that we can start publishing NetBox to PyPI.
• I opened an issue which will track the progress.
• PEP 541 seems to indicate it will take the PyPI maintainers at least six weeks to reach a decision, so it's unlikely to happen in time for 4.0-final.

[Jeff] Agile retrospective postponed until next week

• Arthur was unable to attend today, and Dan's attention was monopolized by an urgent matter.