Hello Stackers, This week marks the 2024.2 ("Dalmatian") release trailing deadline [1]. All projects following the cycle-trailing release model [2][3] must release their 2024.2 ("Dalmatian") deliverables by December 5, 2024. No new governance changes were merged in the past week; goal champions and volunteers continued their efforts on the cross-community goals that have been committed to [4]. As Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) highlighted in this mailing list [5], nine project teams need to address CI jobs within their repositories due to the switch of base DevStack (and some tox) jobs to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Teams can work around the problem temporarily by pinning the nodeset used to run their failing jobs to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while they triage and resolve these issues. The Ironic and Neutron teams recently dropped functional testing with the PostgreSQL database. As highlighted at the PTG [6], there is very little motivation within OpenStack's contributor community to support PostgreSQL as a database alternative to MySQL and its derivatives with Oslo.db. The TC has clarified this in a past resolution as well [7]. We are currently identifying places within the documentation where PostgreSQL references need to be removed and aim to address these promptly. If you rely on PostgreSQL, please voice your concerns and consider dedicating time and resources to reviving testing with this database. === Weekly Meeting === TC members met last Tuesday (2024-11-26) on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel [8]. A significant portion of the discussion focused on the state of CI. Members of the Testing and Collaboration Tools SIG highlighted that much of the gate flakiness is due to jobs encountering the new rate limits on DockerHub [9]. Alternatives that may be more suitable for CI usage within open-source communities were discussed. As a result, we encourage project teams to explore these alternatives, as many open-source communities have already done. The OpenStack TC's next weekly meeting is today (2024-12-03). It will be held simultaneously via video (Zoom) and IRC (OFTC's #openstack-tc channel) at 18:00 UTC. The agenda for this meeting, along with participation links, can be found on the wiki [10]. I hope to see you there! === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for Review ==== - Retire Murano/Senlin/Sahara OpenStack-Ansible roles: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935677 - Add ansible-role-httpd repo to OSA-owned projects: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935694 - Rework the initial goal proposal as suggested by the community: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 - Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934936 Thank you 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] Cycle-trailing release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-trailing [3] Cycle-trailing projects: https://codesearch.opendev.org/?q=type%3A%20trailing&i=nope&literal=nope&files=deliverables%2Fdalmatian&excludeFiles=&repos=openstack/releases [4] Proposed and selected community goals: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/#community-goals [5] Migrate to noble communication: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [6] OpenStack TC PTG Notes (around line 159): https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.0f25532f564fb786a89cfe1de39b004b [7] State of community support for databases: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20170613-postgresql-status.h... [8] TC Meeting IRC Log 2024-11-26: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-11-26-18.01.log.html [9] DockerHub rate limit changes: https://www.docker.com/blog/november-2024-updated-plans-announcement/ [10] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-12-03: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee