HTML version: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2016/09/openstack-developer-mailing-list-digest-20160930/ Candidate Proposals for TC are now open ======================================= * Candidate proposals for the Technical committee (9 positions) are open and will remain open until 2016-10-01, 23:45 UTC. * Candidacies must submit a text file to the openstack/election repository [1]. * Candidates for the Technical Committee can be any foundation individual member, except the seven TC members who were elected for a one year seat in April [2]. * The election will be held from October 3rd through to 23:45 October 8th. * The electorate are foundation individual members that are committers to one of the official programs projects [3] over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC). * Current accepted candidates [4] * Full thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/104486.html Release countdown for week R-0, 3-7 October =========================================== * Focus: Final release week. Most project teams should be preparing for the summit in Barcelona. * General notes: - Release management team will tag the final Newton release on October 6th. -- Project teams don't have to do anything. The release management team will re-tag the commit used in the most recent release candidate listed in openstack/releases. - Projects not following the milestone model will not be re-tagged. - Cycle-trailing projects will be skipped until the trailing deadline. * Release actions - Projects not follow the milestone-based release model who want stable/newton branches created should talk to the release team about their needs. Unbranched projects include: -- cloudkitty -- fuel -- monasca -- openstackansible -- senlin -- solum -- tripleo * Important dates: - Newton final release: October 6th - Newton cycle-trailing deadline: October 20th - Ocata Design Summit: October 24-28 * Full thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/104809.html Removal of Security and OpenStackSalt Project Teams From the Big Tent (cont.) ============================================================================= * The change to remove Astara from the big tent was approval by the TC [4]. * The TC has appointed Piet Kruithof as PTL of the UX team [5]. * Based on the thread discussion [6] and engagements of the team, the Security project team will be kept as is and Rob Clark continuing as PTL [7]. * The OpenStackSalt team did not produce any deliverable within the Newton cycle. The removal was approved by the current Salt team PTL and the TC [8]. * Full thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/thread.html#104170 [1] - http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy [2] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_April_2016#Results [3] - http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=sept-2016-elections [4] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/376609/ [5] - http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html [6] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/thread.html#104170 [7] - http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html [8] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377906/