Hello Stackers, This week is milestone-1 of the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release cycle [1]. We've been hard at work implementing the action items from the recent Virtual Project Teams Gathering (PTG) [2]. This past week, we didn’t pursue any new governance changes, though several remain in draft as follow-ups from the PTG. We’re also excited about the extended deadline for the Call for Proposals for the OpenInfra Days event at SCaLE 2025. The new deadline is Nov 15, 2024 [3]. === Weekly Meeting === Last week, the Technical Committee met concurrently on video [4] and IRC [5]. Allison Price (aprice) and Jimmy McArthur (jimmymcarthur) from the OpenInfra VMware Migration Working Group [6] joined us to discuss the group's charter and activities so far. The working group’s goal is not only to address gaps and workarounds but also to influence the future development of OpenStack software. The group has published a whitepaper [7] for operators planning to migrate cloud workloads. The TC expressed interest in collaboration between the working group and the current maintainers of the VMware hypervisor driver in OpenStack Nova. We also highlighted low contributor numbers in several critical project teams mentioned in the whitepaper, including those maintaining OpenStack Compute High Availability (Masakari), OpenStack Storage Backup and Restore (Freezer), OpenStack Resource Optimization (Watcher), and OpenStack Database Service (Trove). The working group plans to hold regular meetings soon and will share details via this mailing list. The TC reviewed the maintenance status of the OpenStack documentation styling extension for Python Sphinx, openstackdocstheme. This library is outdated, as it depends on older versions, but there aren’t enough maintainers to review changes, which could impact documentation across all projects. Ideally, maintainers of this library should have expertise in Sphinx and JavaScript, making the TC a less-than-ideal group to support it. We encourage migrating documentation away from this custom tool, as Sphinx styling extensions have advanced and may now suffice without heavy customization. While there’s no immediate migration plan, we’re looking for volunteers to lead this effort. In the meantime, we’ll raise concerns with the Oslo project team about the lack of reviews for openstackdocstheme changes. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today (2024-11-12) on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. You can find the agenda on the Meeting wiki [8]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for Review ==== Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 Add Cinder Huawei charm | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/867588 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] Superuser compilation of PTG summaries: https://superuser.openinfra.dev/articles/october-2024-openinfra-ptg-summary/ [3] OpenInfra Days CFP: https://lists.openinfra.dev/archives/list/foundation@lists.openinfra.dev/mes... [4] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2024-11-05: https://youtu.be/o_w3OutGEfM [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2024-11-05: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-11-05-18.04.log.html [6] OpenStack VMware Migration Group: https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack/ [7] VMware Migration to OpenStack White Paper: https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack-white-paper [8] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-11-12: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting