Hello Stackers,

Last week was the feature freeze [1] within OpenStack projects that follow a "cycle-with-rc" release model [2]. These project teams are currently closing out a few feature freeze exceptions and working on bug fixes and documentation so they can ship their 2024.2 "Dalmatian" release candidates next week. When this happens, these projects can begin merging feature changes to the trunk branches again as they target the next release, 2025.1 "Epoxy." The release schedule for Epoxy has been published [3]. Members of the OpenInfra community are gathering in Suwon, South Korea, for the OpenInfra Summit on the 3rd and 4th of September 2024 [4]. This turned out to be a "sold-out" event; we're excited to hear about this event from folks participating in person.

It's election season in the OpenStack community. We're electing four members to the Technical Committee [5]. The polling window officially opens on 2024-09-04. If you've been an individual member of the OpenInfra Foundation and have contributed to any OpenStack project within the past year, you should have received a ballot via email. If you have not, please send the election officials an email [6], or hop onto the #openstack-election channel on OFTC and let them know.

During the past week, the TC merged an update to the tested runtimes for the 2025.1 release, which is due on 2025-04-04 [3].

=== Weekly Meeting ===

The OpenStack Technical Committee meeting last week was held over IRC, and it was well attended [7]. We began brainstorming our agenda for various upcoming events, including the OpenInfra Summit in Suwon [4], the OpenInfra Days in North America (2024-10-15 to 2024-10-16), and the OpenInfra Virtual Project Teams Gathering (2024-10-21 to 2024-10-25). There will be some current TC members and candidates at these in-person events; Amy Marrich (spotz) will be hosting a meet-and-greet. Please stop by and say hello.

The team also discussed the health of the OpenStack Zuul Gate jobs. Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) brought up the requirements bump to oslo.policy 4.4.0. Most projects have addressed incompatibilities; however, there is still some ongoing work [8]. One of the two donated ARM64 clouds was lost recently, affecting Gate jobs running on ARM64. The remaining cloud (osuosl) is slower than expected because of this consolidation. Projects like Kolla had to stop running image build jobs for ARM64. There was discussion on the importance and relevance of ARM support, with some members noting continued interest in ARM usage, especially in AI/ML. Jeremy Stanley (fungi) initiated a discussion [9] on improving communication patterns around code review and contributions, highlighting the need for more engagement from TC members. We also discussed that project teams, including the Technical Committee, must vet the questions in the User Survey and weed out questions or answer choices that are no longer relevant.

The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2024-09-03. This meeting will be held simultaneously over video and IRC. Please find the agenda for the meeting and the details to join within the TC Meeting Wiki [10]. I'm looking forward to your participation.

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ====

Define testing runtime for 2025.1 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926150

==== Open for review ====

charms: retire unmaintained charms | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926793 Retire all single charm repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507

=== Upcoming Events === 2024-09-03: OpenInfra Summit Asia, Suwon 2024-09-06: OpenInfra Days, Tokyo 2024-09-10: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.dev/ 2024-09-18: OpenStack 2025.1 Election Polling Ends 2024-10-15: OpenInfra Days NA, Indianapolis: https://ittraining.iu.edu/explore-topics/titles/oid-iu/

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] Cycle-with-RC release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [3] 2025.1 Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [4] OpenInfra Summit 2024, Suwon: https://2024.openinfraasia.org/a/schedule [5] 2025.1 OpenStack Technical Committee Election: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#tc-candidates [6] 2025.1 OpenStack Election Officials: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials [7] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-08-27: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-08-27-18.00.log.html [8] oslo.policy 4.4.0 enables the RBAC new defaults by default https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [9] Bridging the gap between the community and contributing orgs: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [10] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-09-03: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Agenda