Hello Stackers, We're one week away from the coordinated release of OpenStack 2025.1 ("Epoxy") [1]. Project teams shipped release candidates over the past week and will keep these updated if any release-critical bugs are identified. Teams are also preparing for the virtual OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) [2], which begins on April 7. OpenStack project teams are encouraged to schedule cross-project meetings during the first two days. The OpenStack Technical Committee will meet with contributors to chart out our tasks to aid the next release, 2025.2 "Flamingo." The TC sessions are scheduled at the beginning and end of the PTG. We hope to discuss governance, community goals, and other work affecting the entire community. Please find the etherpad of the OpenStack TC's discussions [3], and feel free to propose new topics! In the past week, the TC appointed its chair (me!) and vice-chair (Dmitriy Rabotyagov / noonedeadpunk). We thank the members of the TC and the community for their continued faith in our work. Additionally, a proposal has been made to change the Vulnerability Management Team's (VMT) work, which will affect all project teams [4]. The proposal aims to place all project teams under VMT's oversight. Your feedback on this proposal is welcome! === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack TC met on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel for its weekly meeting on 2025-03-18 [5]. We began with a discussion around the former openstack-operators mailing list. This mailing list was merged with the openstack-discuss mailing list after extensive prior discussion. The TC received some feedback in recent months from operators who wished to revive a dedicated list for operator discussions. Some operators feel project maintainers don’t engage with their problems, and discussions now occur on other platforms. Mailing list engagement among operators is still present but could be improved. There will be an Operators Discussion at the PTG, and the TC will raise this concern to better understand operator feedback. The TC appreciated the work project teams did in conjunction with the release team to get release candidates posted across the board. We reviewed the state of the CI and welcomed the donation of cloud resources that aided in Zuul's scalability around this critical time of the release. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today, 2025-03-25. It will be held at 18:00 UTC in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please find the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [6]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Add 2025.2 TC chair and vice-chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/944174 - Add separate freezer-api deliverable | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/944781 ==== Open for Review ==== - [resolution] Extend scope of VMT to cover all project teams | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/944817 - Add Cinder Huawei charm | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/867588 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-04-01 - 2025-04-04: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - 2025-04-02: OpenStack 2025.1 ("Epoxy") Release - 2025-04-03: OpenInfra LIVE - Epoxy release - 2025-04-08: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-04-07 - 2025-04-12: OpenInfra PTG 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] 2025.2 "Flamingo" PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ [3] TC PTG Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2025-ptg-os-tc [4] VMT proposal: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/944817 [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-03-18: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-03-18-18.00.log.html [6] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-03-25: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting