Hello Stackers, Time flies, we're over halfway through our 2024.2 (Dalmatian) release cycle! This second half is usually chock-full of release deadlines, specification and code freezes, and more release action [1]. The past week was a short work week for many folks in the Technical Committee due to local holidays, so this update will be brief. Hervé Beraud (hberaud) and Mike Bayer (zzzeek) joined us at the TC's video meeting last week, and they took us through the goal proposal to remove eventlet from OpenStack [2][3][4][5][6]. The meeting was well attended, and it involved a walkthrough of SQLAlchemy, where zzzeek presented how it supports asyncio and a library that allows non-async definitions to invoke awaitables inside an asyncio application. We didn't merge any new governance proposals this week, but several are in review as noted below. === Weekly Meeting === The weekly meeting was held simultaneously on video and IRC. Please check out the recording posted to the TC's YouTube channel [7] as well as the meeting log on eavesdrop [8]. We have new governance proposals that concern Freezer and Monasca, the two projects that were marked "inactive" during the last release cycle. We discussed providing the Skyline team instructions and time to graduate from being an "emerging" project. The TC reiterated its commitment to ensure that all decisions are made asynchronously and recorded on Gerrit to involve community members in different time zones. The rest of the meeting was focused on the eventlet removal discussion. It was a very informative presentation that I'd recommend all OpenStack maintainers review. We took a note to time-box the reviews on the goal proposal. I'd like to request reviews and any strong objections to be expressed on the proposal as soon as possible. The next Technical Committee meeting is today, 2024-07-09 at 1800 UTC! The meeting will be hosted on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel, and the agenda has been posted to the Meetings Wiki Page [9]. Please consider joining us! === Governance Proposals === Remove Eventlet From Openstack | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 Update criteria for the inactive projects to become active again | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921500 Remove Monasca from inactive list | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923466 Transition Watcher project to DPL | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923583 Inactive state extensions: Freezer | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923441 Retire Kuryr-Kubernetes and Kuryr-Tempest-Plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507 Update to include docs and miscellaneous repos for AC status | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/915021 Adding a rule to manage the affiliation diversity requirement in the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922512 === Upcoming Events === 2024-08-14: Nominations open for 2025.1 OpenStack PTL+TC elections 2024-08-29: Dalmatian-3 milestone Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] Remove eventlet from OpenStack: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 [3] Awaitlet SQLAlchemy: https://awaitlet.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/ [4] SQLAlchemy Asyncio Facade for oslo.db: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/oslo.db/+/922976 [5] zzzeek's async demo: https://github.com/zzzeek/async_demo [6] Presentation Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/169Bc_Uhv-L-0HzM6WuE6uBsC-1hIlgCOQ4lR... [7] TC Meeting Recording, 2024-07-02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnTDP7Dqit8 [8] TC Meeting IRC Logs, 2024-07-02: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-07-02-18.00.log.html [9] TC Meeting, 2024-07-09: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting