Hello Stackers, We're wrapping up work on the 2025.2 "Flamingo" release [1] within all projects that follow the "cycle-with-rc" release model [2]. The coordinated release is scheduled for October 1, 2025. You can follow the cycle highlights that Project Team Leads and liaisons have put together to get a preview of what this release brings [3]. In the past week, election officials posted results from the Combined TC/PTL elections for the 2026.1 release cycle [4][5]. I'm happy to welcome Tony Breeds (tonyb) and welcome back Doug Goldstein (cardoe), Dr. Jens Harbott (frickler), and Sylvain Bauza (bauzas) to the OpenStack Technical Committee. On behalf of the TC, I'd also like to congratulate the newly appointed PTLs of 34 project teams. This includes Arnaud Morin (amorin), who is leading the Mistral project as a first-time PTL, and Li Liu (liliueecg), who is returning to Cyborg as PTL after the Stein release. Thank you all for dedicating your time to fill these important roles. In the past week, the TC didn't merge any new governance changes; however, a few are currently undergoing community review. === Weekly Meeting === The TC held its weekly meeting on OFTC's #openstack-tc IRC channel on September 16, 2025 [6]. We discussed the community's participation in the election process [7] and are seeking input on how the process can be improved. It's possible that any changes we come up with would need buy-in from the OpenInfra Foundation's Board and staff. We followed up on the effort to standardize database character sets and collations across OpenStack projects [8]. The TC agreed that consistency would be beneficial for operators and supported the plan to make this a community goal. We'll follow up regarding the details. We touched on the status of "leaderless" projects, specifically Venus, OpenStack Charms, and Vitrage. If we find no PTL volunteers, the TC plans to follow up with the project teams and discuss options like retirement, finding liaisons and switch projects to a DPL governance model, or moving the projects to a Special Interest Group (SIG). We briefly discussed the upcoming PTG (Project Teams Gathering), with a suggestion to dedicate the first two days to cross-project discussions to encourage collaboration. The meeting concluded with a discussion about vendoring a BSD-3 licensed library, ply, into the yaql project, which the TC approved after confirming the license is compatible with OpenStack's Apache V2 license [9]. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on September 23, 2025. This meeting will be hosted on OFTC's #openstack-tc IRC channel and will begin at 1700 UTC. Please find the meeting's agenda on the wiki [10]. I hope you'll be able to join us there! === Governance Proposals === ==== Open For Review ==== - Add TC/PTL results from 2026.1 election | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/961598 - Retire metalsmith project from bare metal program | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/958297 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Extend Monasca's inactive state | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/959392 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-10-01: OpenStack 2026.1 "Flamingo" release day - 2025-10-03: OpenStack's Birthday Meetup, Austin: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-austin/events/310508680 - 2025-10-17: OpenInfra Summit, Paris-Saclay: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/ - 2025-10-27: OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] "cycle-with-rc" release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [3] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release highlights: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/highlights.html [4] 2026.1 TC election results: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [5] 2026.1 PTL election results: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, Sep 17th 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-09-16-17.00.html [7] 2026.1 Election Retrospective: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [8] Dealing with Mariadb/Mysql changes: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/gazpacho-collations-charsets [9] Vendoring ply in OpenStack: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [10] TC Meeting Agenda, Sep 23rd 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting