Hello Stackers, We're halfway through the 2024.2 release cycle! Next Thursday (2024-07-04) is milestone 2 [1] of this "Dalmatian" release cycle. This is an important milestone for OpenStack project teams to target bug fixes and it serves as a deadline for project-specific activities. The Technical Committee also uses this milestone to vet project activity to adjust the list of Emerging and Inactive OpenStack projects [2]. We'll likely see some proposals regarding this in the next week. During this past week, we merged governance proposals to nominate a PTL for the OpenStack Charms project and to nominate individual TC members as liaisons to projects with distributed project leadership. Looking ahead at the next release; there are a few important activities that need your attention: - The Virtual OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering is scheduled for October 21-25, 2024. Please read Kendall Nelson's (diablo_rojo) note here [3]. Project teams will be signing up over the next several weeks; I'd encourage you all to confirm your attendance by grabbing a ticket! [4] - Allison Price (aprice) sent out a poll to find a codename for the 2025.1 release. I encourage you all to participate - the deadline is June 28th, 2024! [5] I don't know if we have officially accepted that we have an animal theme going; shouldn't we? :) CentOS 8 Stream has reached end-of-life, and Clark Boylan (clarkb) informed OpenDev infrastructure consumers that centos-8-stream nodes will be removed from nodepool/Zuul CI [6]. Project teams are encouraged to check their use of centos-8-stream across all maintained/"unmaintained" branches in their repositories and modify/delete such jobs. Don't forget to address any documentation within your project teams! === Weekly Meeting === Last week's IRC meeting [7] began with a recap of the effort to secure our deliverables on PyPI. Our efforts to rein in "unowned" packages and packages with inconsistent metadata will continue. We considered the idea of adding a second maintainer account across all packages. While we agree on the benefits of a second maintainer account, given that there's no viable API to automate adding/adjusting maintainers, achieving this will be a laborious manual process. We have shelved the idea for now and are going to watch for updates on PyPI's community accounts or for a meaningful maintainer API. We then delved into persistent CI failures and gate stability. We took an action item to skip slow tests in integrated jobs using Ceph that are frequently timing out or finishing just around the permitted timeout. The next OpenStack PTL and TC Election season begins in approximately 50 days (Nomination period opens August 14th [1]). We'll attempt to get any election-related changes in place before the election season. Our next IRC weekly meeting will be held tomorrow (2024-06-25) at 18:00 UTC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the agenda at [8] and do join us! === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== Fixing the validate-legacy script | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920848 Appoint James Page as OpenStack Charms PTL | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921731 Add TC liaison in DPL model implementation | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/917516 ==== Open for review/discussion ==== Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507 Update criteria for the inactive projects to become active again | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921500 Adding a rule to manage the affiliation diversity requirement in the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922512 Remove Eventlet From Openstack | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 Show TC and SIG repos under reference | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/918488 Adding a rule to manage the affiliation diversity requirement in the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922512 How to contact the TC: ================== You can reach out to the TC in multiple ways: 1. Email: you can send the email with tag [tc] on this email list. 2. Ping us using 'tc-members' keyword on #openstack-tc IRC channel 3. Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1800 UTC [6] Upcoming Events: ============== 2024-07-01: Monthly Technical Committee Video+IRC meeting 2024-07-02: OpenInfra Board Meeting -: https://board.openinfra.dev/meetings/2024-07-02 2024-07-04: Milestone-2 of the 2024.2 release cycle Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] Emerging Technology and Inactive Projects: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/emerging-technology-and-inacti... [3] 2025.1 PTG: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] PTG Registration: https://ptg.openinfra.dev/#registration=1 [5] Poll for naming the 2025.1 release: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [6] CentOS-8-stream node removal: https://lists.opendev.org/archives/list/service-announce@lists.opendev.org/t... [7] TC Meeting Log: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-06-18-18.00.log.html [8] TC Meeting Agenda: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting