Hello Stackers, We're 6 weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. We have a number of release deadlines scattered between this week and next, so it's an extremely busy time for project maintainers and our release management team. The nomination window for the combined TC and PTL elections is also closing this week (at 23:45 UTC on February 18, 2026) [2]. At last count, there were 27 project teams that still needed a PTL nominee. If you'd like to volunteer to be a PTL or if you think someone else should be, please ensure a nomination is submitted prior to the deadline. If you have questions regarding the process, please feel free to ask them on this mailing list or in the #openstack-election IRC channel on OFTC. The substantive governance activity in the past week was around the CI fixes concerning the regression in setuptools [3]. We've had to resurrect some "x-static" repositories in order for the OpenStack Dashboard project team to work around the changes from the upstream Python community. We're beginning to define the tested runtimes for the OpenStack 2026.2 "Hibiscus" release cycle [4]. Please take a look and give us your feedback. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was held over IRC on February 10, 2026 [5]. We focused on our past action items, technical debt, and the ongoing election cycle. We have officially closed the chapter on Monasca by abandoning 173 open changes across several repositories, and conversely, we’re seeing a promising revival of Cyborg with a new PTL nominee and a fresh team structure. In the hope of staffing project teams that have a large cross-project impact, we've proposed PTL nomination directories for the Requirements and Oslo teams not just to solicit candidates, but to spark a discussion on how we better support these critical dependencies. We discussed navigating a "borked" gate due to the recent setuptools' pkg_resources deprecation [3]. While we are currently merging "band-aid" pins to restore CI stability on stable branches, the situation would have been significantly worse without the proactive work done by Stephen Finucane (stephenfin) and Takashi Kajinami (tkajinam) over the last few months. Their foresight has saved project teams from a much larger headache during the feature freeze rush that's underway. Finally, we called out to project teams to review the User Survey streamlining plan [6]. Our goal is to refine this feedback loop prior to the PTG in April [7] so we can make timely improvements. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. This meeting is being held at 0800 UTC, a time that's better suited for our contributors in the Eastern Hemisphere. Please feel free to add to the agenda on the meeting's wiki page, and thank you in advance for your participation [8]. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Add a script to abandon changes on retired repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/975594 - Onboard additional xstatic packages | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/976513 ==== Open For Review ==== - 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 === 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+Cloud Native Con EU begins: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - 2026-04-20: OpenInfra PTG begins: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ === 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 [8]. 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] OpenStack "2026.2" Elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ [3] setuptools regression: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] Tested runtimes for 2026.2: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/976691 [5] TC Meeting IRC Log, February 10 2026: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2026/tc.2026-02-10-17.00.html [6] Streamlining the OpenStack User Survey: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [7] OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ [8] TC Meeting Agenda, February 17 2026: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting