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March 17 Digital Sovereignty Meeting Recording & Plan Going Forward
by Kendall Nelson 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hello Everyone! Thank you to those who were able to attend yesterday's meeting. We really appreciate you taking time out of our day to support collaboration around OpenInfra and Digital Sovereignty. For those that were unable to attend, here is the recording! https://zoom.us/rec/share/5C87PC0AwqXFVCeW-f0ydLppVrEsUSuvRyV_M9xSgvPcVq7ZF… As always, please note in our etherpad <https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Digital-Sovereignty-WG> that you have watched the recording and feel free to add your own notes as well. Just because you are not able to make it to all the meetings, doesn't mean you don't have valuable insight - we want to hear from you. Now, as to how our efforts are going - since we are in a good place with the landing page, link coming soon - we are going to take a few weeks to break into smaller groups to work on some of the deliverables and make our next big meeting during the PTG (April 20-24) with that exact timing TBD via a poll in a couple weeks. *If there is a particular deliverable (case studies, best practices, proprietary v openstack, and thought leadership blogs) please make sure to add your name to those sections (and email address to the attendees section) of the etherpad <https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Digital-Sovereignty-WG> by the end of the week so I can set up individual threads for those subgroups. * Any questions? Please feel free to ask! -Kendall

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[tc][all] OpenStack Technical Committee Weekly Summary and Meeting Agenda (2026.1/R-1)
by gouthampravi＠gmail.com 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello Stackers, We're a week away from the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. Project teams continue to test for release-critical bugs and will publish additional RCs if necessary. All "cycle-with-rc" deliverables have now switched over to the 2026.2 "Hibiscus" release cycle [2]. The Project Team Lead election results were announced [3] last week and the governance changes for nearly 40 project teams were merged. For the handful of leaderless projects we discussed last week, the OpenStack Technical Committee fast-tracked the appointment changes that had been soaking without objection. Please join me in congratulating all the new and returning PTLs and project liaisons. Callum Dickinson (Callum027), Douglas Viroel (dviroel), Erkin Mussurmankulov (Riki_tiki_tavi) and Sean Mooney (sean-k-mooney) are first-time PTLs for the OpenStack Adjutant, Watcher, Trove and Cyborg project teams. Thank you all for stepping up to perform this critical duty. The TC appointed Arnaud Morin (amorin) as PTL for Mistral and Wenxiang Wu (wenxiang_wu) as PTL for Skyline. The DPL model was restored for Requirements and Oslo with a refreshed list of liaisons. Amy Marrich (spotz) is at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam this week. Do say hello if you run into her. On the CI front, it's been a rough couple of weeks. Opendev websites have been going down repeatedly, and that's been hitting CI, developers, users and operators. If you're plugged into IRC, you know the kind of fire fighting the opendev team has been handling. Thank you to everyone who's been keeping the lights on through all of this. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was held on March 17, 2026 [4]. The bulk of the meeting centered around leaderless teams. A past PTL of the Blazar project offered to step in as PTL of the Masakari project team and mentor other project contributors towards governance roles. The TC was supportive of this: Dan Smith (dansmith) put it well that mentoring a new PTL is an opportunity we shouldn't pass up. The discussion then shifted to Venus and Vitrage. Both these project teams were marked "inactive" [5] with no PTL candidates in the 2026.1 release cycle. Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk) wondered whether we should deprecate rather than retire them, since retirement deletes stable branches while deprecation keeps them around for security patches. Jeremy Stanley (fungi) reminded us that deprecation doesn't prevent stable point releases, and Ghanshyam Maan (gmaan) noted that retirement at least gives operators honest visibility. At the moment, the TC favors deprecating Vitrage (noonedeadpunk offered to help maintain the stable branches) and retiring Venus (we have identified no maintainers). The release team's proposal to remove both from the Gazpacho coordinated release [6] got TC support. I also shared the TC's PTG etherpad [7]. We've reserved time and I'm hoping we will discuss existing and new community goals, alongside other governance and cross project topics. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is Tuesday March 24, 2026, at 1700 UTC. This meeting will be hosted on the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please see the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [8]. I hope to see you there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - - Appoint Arnaud Morin as PTL for mistral | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/977344 - - Restore DPL model for requirements project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/977547 - - Revert "Reset the DPL model for Oslo project" | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/977707 - - Add PTL results from the 2026.2 election | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/981311 - - Appoint Wenxiang Wu as PTL of Skyline | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/978067 - - Appoint Callum Dickinson as PTL for Adjutant | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/978842 ==== Open for Review ==== - - Appoint Masahito Muroi as PTL of Masakari | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/981213 - - Retire requestsexceptions | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/979815 - - Revert "Revive os_monasca" | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/974775 === Upcoming Events === - - 2026-03-23: KubeCon/CloudNativeCon EU (Amsterdam): https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - - 2026-03-23: Open Source SecurityCon Europe (Amsterdam): https://openssf.org/event/open-source-securitycon-2026/ - - 2026-04-02: OpenInfra Live: https://openinfra.org/live/ - - 2026-04-14: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - - 2026-04-20: OpenInfra PTG begins: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ - - 2026-04-25: OpenInfra Days, Nigeria: https://www.meetup.com/openstack-nigeria-user-group/events/313525373/ === How to Contact the TC === You can reach the TC in several ways: 1. Email: send an email with the tag [tc] on this mailing list. 2. Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. 3. Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every Tuesday at 1700 UTC, except the third Tuesday of the month, when we meet at 0800 UTC [8]. Thank you very much for reading! 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[swift] eventlet removal status
by Christian Schwede 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi, There is a series of patches to remove eventlet from Swift proposed: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack/swift+topic:eventlet-removal… With these patches applied, Swift runs using Gunicorn as the WSGI server and uses threading (if eventlet is not installed or is disabled using the environment variable USE_EVENTLET=0). Eventlet modules have been mostly replaced by modules from Python's standard library. The current testing status is as follows: Functional: 100% passing Unit: 99% passing Probe: ~97% passing (some tests are flaky, which might be unrelated; 3% are logline mismatches in test/probe/test_signals.py) If you want to start testing without deploying a Swift cluster, the simplest way is to check out the feature/threaded branch, create a virtualenv and run unittests and/or in-process functional tests. For example: git clone -b feature/threaded https://github.com/cschwede/swift.git # Copy of the proposed patches cd swift virtualenv .venv312 -p python3.12 source .venv312/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt pip install -r test-requirements.txt pip uninstall -y eventlet To run in-process functional tests: SWIFT_TEST_IN_PROCESS=1 ./.functests Unit tests can be run with ./.unittests; however, due to the still large amount of failures (~95 out of 10.000+ tests still failing) pytest might crash with a MemoryError. I do run these tests per directory for the moment, eg: ./.unittests obj ./.unittests proxy If you want to test an actual Swift deployment without eventlet (and run probetests), I recommend using a Swift-All-In-One (SAIO) deployment, as documented in [1]. If using [2] you can simply point it to the feature/threaded branch on my Github account, eg: export SWIFT_REPO=https://github.com/cschwede/swift export SWIFT_REPO_BRANCH=feature/threaded I recommend uninstalling eventlet within the SAIO VM for testing; this ensures Swift truly works without eventlet. Most test failures are related to timeouts and disconnects, especially when using EC. Some of them are related to blocking "queue.put" if the client is already gone and threads wait infinitely (this is also the reason why "pytest" does not exit after running "pytest test/unit/proxy"). Other test failures result from different result ordering (eventlet yields in a deterministic order; threading results are somewhat random, depending on the OS scheduler). I'm looking into possible solutions for this. If you want to benchmark the gunicorn-based deployment, you might want to change the "threads = 4" setting in the *-server.conf files. This (low) number should most likely be increased to achieve better performance. Any help with reviewing, testing, benchmarking and fixing the remaining issues is very welcome! Thanks, Christian [1] https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/development_saio.html [2] https://github.com/NVIDIA/vagrant-swift-all-in-one -- Red Hat GmbH <https://www.redhat.com/de/global/dach>, Registered seat: Werner von Siemens Ring 12, D-85630 Grasbrunn, Germany Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen/Munich, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Ryan Barnhart, Charles Cachera, Avril Crosse O'Flaherty

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[oslo] Proposal to add Ghanshyam Maan as core team
by Daniel Mats Niklas Bengtsson 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I would like to propose adding Ghanshyam Maan to the oslo core team. Ghanshyam has been actively contributing to the Oslo libraries for some time. He regularly participates in technical discussions, including work around multiprocessing, provides thoughtful and constructive code reviews, and has contributed several solid patches. He is also currently serving as the TACT-SIG liaison and has offered to take on the role of release liaison as well. His consistent involvement in reviews and project discussions demonstrates a strong commitment to the Oslo projects and to the OpenStack community. I believe he would be a great addition to the oslo core team. Please reply with your votes (+1 / 0 / -1). The vote will remain open for one week.

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[ansible-collections-openstack] two patches ready for review
by Taavi Ansper 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi Who should I assign for review from cores? Two simple fixes ready. One has been tested by other +1 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack/+/9775… https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack/+/9815… Best regards taavi ansper

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[dev][nova] Intel TDX support
by Anton Iacobaeus 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi, I work with confidential computing and has previously contributed to Proxmox [1] to enable support for Intel TDX. I am looking to do the same for Openstack Nova. I have proposed a blueprint [2] and am drafting a spec with target for 2026.2 release. From what I gather, support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES is already implemented in Nova, while SEV-SNP support is ongoing. TDX shares some commonalities with SEV-SNP, and I believe that the work on both can be conducted in tandem. I also have experience with SEV-SNP and am happy to contribute if needed. Early feedback or any concerns and guidance are very welcome! [1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_9.1 [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/intel-tdx-libvirt-support Best Regards, Anton

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[ops][largescale-sig][scientific-sig][publiccloud-sig] Ops Radio Hour on March 27, 2026
by Ildiko Vancsa 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi OpenStack community, I'm reaching out to you with a friendly reminder that the next OpenStack Ops Radio Hour[1] is scheduled to happen on __March 27th, 2026 at 1300UTC,__ which is this Friday! The call series is a casual setting for operators, engineers, and contributors to come together, share knowledge, and collaborate on the complexities of managing and deploying OpenStack environments. The main topic the group identified for the upcoming call is OVN: - Migrating to OVN - OVN experiences and practices If you have any experience with OVN, or thinking about migrating to it, please make sure to join the call! If you have further topics you would like to dive into during the call, please add them to this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack_ops_radiohour A few reminders: - The group on the call agreed to try out Matrix as a chat platform for more synchronous communication outside calls + You can access the Matrix room here: https://matrix.to/#/#openstack-ops:opendev.org<https://matrix.to/#/%23openstack-ops:opendev.org> <https://matrix.to/#/%23openstack-ops:opendev.org%3Chttps://matrix.to/%23/%2…> + Further details are here: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack… - If you would like to read and catch up on notes from previous calls, you can find them in this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack_ops_radiohour See you on the call on March 27th! Bets Regards, Ildikó [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Meetups

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Introduction - Outreachy Applicant Interested in Ironic
by Aman 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hello everyone, My name is Aman, and I am a software engineer and an Outreachy applicant interested in contributing to OpenStack, particularly the Ironic project. I have a background in Computer Science. My technical skills include: Languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB) Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, ReactJS Backend: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs Databases: MySQL, MongoDB Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Git, Linux, basic AWS (EC2, S3), CI/CD (GitHub Actions) Machine Learning: Currently learning Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning Currently, I am exploring the Ironic codebase and working on tasks related to node deployment history APIs. I am looking forward to learning from the community and contributing meaningfully. I would appreciate any guidance or pointers on how I can get more involved. Thank you. Best regards, Aman

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[neutron] Weekly Meetings new timing effective from today
by Yatin Karel 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Hi Neutrinos, As discussed in last week's meeting, starting from today, the Neutron and Neutron CI meetings will occur an hour earlier. More context is in [1]. Neutron CI Meeting: Every Monday at 1400 UTC Neutron Meeting: Every Tuesday at 1300 UTC [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/opendev/irc-meetings/+/980731 -- Thanks and Regards Yatin Karel

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[ironic] Outreachy Applicant Introduction – OpenStack Ironic
by Kelvin Asante 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Hello, My name is Kelvin Asante, and I’m an Outreachy applicant interested in contributing to the OpenStack Ironic project. I have experience with Python, Git, and Linux. I’m currently improving my understanding of open source contribution workflows and the OpenStack ecosystem. I’ve joined the IRC channel and started going through the contributor documentation. I’m excited to begin contributing and learning from the community. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to working with you and the community. Best regards, Kelvin Asante

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