Hello Stackers, Over the weekend, the OpenInfra Summit in Paris-Saclay wrapped up. From what I heard, it was a successful event with a lot to unpack for the entire community. We'll discuss the summit over trip reports and activity across and within project teams over the coming weeks. We're twenty-three weeks away from the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. Next week, the OpenStack community will be participating in the OpenInfra Virtual Project Teams Gathering (PTG). Project teams are grooming discussion topics on Etherpads [2]. The OpenStack Technical Committee will be meeting alongside project teams [3], and we'll kick off discussions as we've usually done by meeting with project maintainers. All project team leads, DPL liaisons, and core maintainers are invited to attend, and brainstorm community-wide concerns during this time slot. This event will be held at 1600 UTC on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. Please see the PTG website for the call information, and better yet, pop into the #openinfra-events IRC channel on OFTC for real-time updates from all project discussions throughout the week. If you haven't already registered for the event, please do so [4]. This past week was a busy week for the community and the OpenStack Technical Committee. The "ironic-inspector" repositories were removed, and all the functionality provided has long been integrated into Ironic. Michał Nasiadka (mnasiadka) volunteered to be the TC liaison for the Requirements and Release Management teams. The TC also marked the Vitrage and Venus project teams as "inactive" [5]. These project teams need help. If you're a maintainer, contributor, or user, please help us re-form the project teams by determining project leadership and fixing up any failing CI jobs. All deliverables associated with these project teams will be dropped from the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" release cycle. If activity does not resume, we'll retire the deliverables and the respective project teams in the 2026.2 release cycle. This week, the TC will begin our first monthly meeting at an APAC-friendly time! As a globally distributed community, our preferred mantra of communication is asynchronous; however, once in a while, sync meetings help us make progress, and we'll try to cater to as many different timezones as possible. For now, on every third Tuesday of the month, we'll meet at 0800 UTC (instead of 1700 UTC) in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. At the same time, we'll be stopping our Video + IRC meeting for the rest of this release development cycle. Please download the meeting's ICS file and update your calendars [6]. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee occurred on October 14th, 2025 [7]. The TC discussed several outstanding governance changes and gathered the roll call votes needed to mark Vitrage and Venus project teams inactive. We reiterated that the proposal to retire the Monasca project is still pending, but a current maintainer needs assistance with the release process, and Elod Illes (elodilles) would walk them through it. Michał Nasiadka (mnasiadka) volunteered to be the TC liaison for the Requirements and Release Management project teams. The TC agreed to sunset scheduled video meetings, opting to bring them back only on an ad-hoc basis due to lack of interest. The remaining portion of the meeting focused on establishing a new, more EU/APAC-friendly meeting time. We decided on doing this monthly on the third Tuesday at 08:00–09:00 UTC, replacing the regular 17:00 UTC slot for that day. We also called for topics for the upcoming PTG (Project Team Gathering) [3] and briefly reviewed the runtime and job changes for the Gazpacho release, which includes making the Python 3.13 job voting, creating a non-voting Python 3.14 job, and fixing up the grenade templates [8]. The next meeting of the TC is on October 21st, 2025, at 0800 UTC. This meeting will be hosted in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC, and mnasiadka will be chairing it. Please find the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [9]. Please chime in and say hi. I do hope this new meeting slot is feasible for contributors in the Eastern Hemisphere. Do remember, you can always edit the wiki and propose new meeting topics. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Update TC liaisons for Freezer and Oslo | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/964257 - Retire ironic-inspector from bare metal program | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/963470 - Mark Vitrage project team inactive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/963227 - Mark Venus project team inactive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/963228 - Propose mnasiadka as tc-liaison for Requirements and Release Management | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/963989 ==== Open For Review ==== - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-10-22: OpenInfra Meetup, Jakarta Selatan: https://www.meetup.com/openinfraid/events/31140538 - 2025-10-27: OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ - 2025-11-04: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-11-15: Celebrating 15 years of OpenStack, Montréal - 2025-11-15: KCD + OpenInfra Days, Hangzhou: https://sessionize.com/kcd-hangzhou-and-oicd-2025/ === 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 [9]. Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] 2026.1 PTG Etherpads: https://ptg.opendev.org/etherpads.html [3] Openstack TC 2026.1 PTG Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2025-ptg-os-tc [4] Register to attend the OpenInfra PTG: https://ptg.openinfra.org/ [5] Inactive project teams: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/emerging-technology-and-inacti... [6] Download the TC meeting ICS: https://meetings.opendev.org/#Technical_Committee_Meeting [7] TC Meeting IRC Log, Oct 14th 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-10-14-17.00.html [8] 2026.1 runtime test changes: https://review.opendev.org/q/hashtag:%222026-1-runtime-update%22 [9] TC Meeting Agenda, Oct 21st 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting