Hello Stackers, We're 7 weeks from the coordinated 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release [1]. Perhaps more importantly, we have three weeks until Feature Freeze, a code merge deadline for project teams with deliverables as part of that coordinated release. I'd recommend reading through the great summary of release deadlines and activities that Thierry Carrez (ttx) from the OpenStack Release Team sent to this list [2]. If you'd like to be a Project Team Lead or a member of the OpenStack TC, now is a great time to nominate yourself. Nominations are accepted until 23:45 UTC on 2025-02-19 [3]. In TC news this week, a couple of governance changes were merged, where we retired a redundant Ansible role project and added the OpenStack Libraries (Oslo) project team to the list of project teams requiring a PTL election. There are several governance changes open for the community's review. A number of contributors and operators participated in FOSDEM 2025 and met up at a Birds of a Feather session hosted by Amy Marrich (spotz). The meeting gathered some interesting thoughts [4] that we'll dive into during our weekly meeting this week. The OpenInfra Foundation is hosting two open community feedback meetings to discuss a proposal to join the Linux Foundation. One of these calls is today, 2025-02-11, at 16:00 UTC [5]. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack TC met over IRC [6] and video (Zoom) [7] last week. The meeting was well attended. We reviewed the state of participation of project liaisons in Oslo. The team behind Oslo has a tough job maintaining many disparate code repositories that aid service project teams. Members of the TC felt that the project might see more traction if they re-evaluated their leadership model. After the meeting, we added Oslo to the list of projects requiring a PTL election. The TC expressed that resetting the DPL model every cycle has been beneficial in identifying inactive maintainers and ensuring project continuity. A new release of PBR was made earlier in the day, and project maintainers were advised to report any packaging or obscure issues that may have arisen as a result in the #opendev channel on OFTC. We went on to discuss the state of the CI. Concerns were raised about heavy test loads and project teams running a large number of jobs on every change, which can impact the overall quota and cause other jobs to wait or be queued. Some projects are running upwards of 60 jobs on a single change, with many being multi-node jobs that can consume 10-20% of the overall quota. The TC is concerned about the high number of node hours being consumed by projects and encourages teams to review their test jobs to identify redundant or unnecessary tests. Some strategies to do this include identifying jobs that have remained non-voting for a long time and considering moving them to a periodic pipeline. Project teams should also be mindful of perma-failing test jobs and ensure these are removed until the underlying issue is fixed. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is today, 2025-02-11, and will be held on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC at 18:00 UTC. Please find the agenda within the meeting wiki [8]. I hope you're able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Retire qdrouterd role | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938193 - Reset the DPL model for the Oslo project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939485 ==== Open for Review ==== - Define testing runtime for the 2025.2 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/941141 - Cleanup policy popup leads list | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/941148 - Add Watcher project update liaison | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/940168 - Define 2025 upstream investment opportunities | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939507 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 === How to Contact the TC === You can reach the TC in several ways: - Email: send an email with the tag [tc] on this mailing list. - Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. - Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 18:00 UTC [8]. === Upcoming Events === - 2025-02-19: Nominations submission deadline for 2025.2 TC/PTL Elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ - 2025-02-28: 2025.1 ("Epoxy") Feature Freeze and release milestone 3 [1] - 2025-03-06: SCALE 2025 + OpenInfra Days NA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x) - 2025-03-11: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [2] Release countdown for week R-7: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [3] How to submit your candidacy in OpenStack elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy [4] OpenStack BoF @ FOSDEM '25 Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.f28603feec88c9e91ff1ced894af35c9 [5] Join the discussion regarding OpenInfra Foundation joining the Linux Foundation: https://board.openinfra.org/strategic-consideration [6] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-02-04: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-02-04-18.00.log.html [7] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2025-02-04: https://youtu.be/92afQSmLk08 [8] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-02-11: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting