Hello Stackers, We're five weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. On Thursday this week, we'll observe a feature freeze across all deliverables following a cycle-with-rc release model [2]. This is in preparation for the first release candidate for all these deliverables in a couple of weeks. During this past week, CI was unstable due to upstream changes, and a lot of it required work from across project teams. We're hoping that the testing remains uneventful while we go through this last leg of our release journey. The OpenStack Technical Committee did not make any new governance changes in the past week. We're defining the tested runtimes for the OpenStack 2026.2 "Hibiscus" release cycle [3]. Please take a look and give us your feedback. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack TC occurred on February 17, 2026, over the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC [4]. We discussed the ongoing election cycle. A lot of the PTL and TC nominations were pending at the time of this meeting, and we were proactively considering next steps. As is usual, however, we expect (and saw) a late surge of nominations before the deadline. On the technical front, we are intensifying our focus on the Requirements team's health and its integration with deployment-focused contributors. The current lack of a confirmed Deployment Project Liaison (DPL) team risks pushing us into a TC appointment stage, which we would prefer to avoid through active community engagement. We're hoping to make the global requirements process more accessible to downstream owners and deployment experts to ensure our dependency management reflects real-world production needs. Finally, we noted several ongoing CI issues. While the setuptools regressions have stabilized significantly on the master branch, we have targeted work remaining to ensure that older supported stable branches have a viable CI. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. This meeting will be held at 1700 UTC, over IRC in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please find the meeting's agenda on the meeting's wiki page [5]. Please feel free to edit the ping list and add your nickname if you'd like to be alerted during the meeting. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open For Review ==== - Restore DPL model for requirements project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/977547 - Define testing runtime for 2026.2 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/976691 - Revert "Revive os_monasca" | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/974775 - Appoint Arnaud Morin as PTL for mistral | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/977344 === Upcoming Events === - 2026-02-26: 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Feature Freeze / Milestone 3 - 2026-03-10: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2026-03-23: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe begins: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - 2026-04-20: OpenInfra PTG begins: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ 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] Cycle with RC release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [3] Tested runtimes for 2026.2: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/976691 [4] TC Meeting IRC Log, February 17, 2026: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2026/tc.2026-02-17-08.00.html [5] TC Meeting Agenda, February 24, 2026: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting