Hello Stackers, As we count down to the final release of OpenStack's 30th version [1], it's been another busy week across our community. Over the past week, the Technical Committee has merged several governance proposals, with a focus on leadership changes in preparation for the upcoming OpenStack election season. Project teams following a Distributed Project Leadership model (DPL) [2] were required to reassert their liaisons within the past week or elect a new PTL during the upcoming elections. The nomination period for Project Team Leads (PTLs) and the OpenStack Technical Committee will begin at 23:45 UTC on August 14, 2024. If you haven't already done so, please confirm your eligibility to vote in these elections by navigating to: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl We are currently vetting runtimes for the upcoming 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release [3]. Please note that this will be a Skip-Level Upgradable (SLURP) release [4], meaning upgrades are supported from the 2024.1 ("Caracal") release to the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release and from the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release to the 2026.1 ("G") release. This also means that a wider range of distributions and Python versions will be tested within the community for this release. === Weekly Meeting === The last Technical Committee weekly meeting was primarily held over video [5], with notes taken in IRC [6]. We discussed several topics concerning gate health, noting that the recent end-of-life transition of CentOS 8 Stream has rendered the gate unstable across the stack. Several project teams had to find suitable alternatives to keep testing older branches or specific features on this distribution. Members noted that Rocky Linux has been relatively stable and may be a viable alternative for those still seeking a replacement. The OpenDev infrastructure team has freed up space and resources to accommodate mirrors for Rocky Linux. Your help is most appreciated if you're motivated to enable this in CI. We also discussed the upcoming elections and improvements to the election tooling. Several ideas were shared to prevent situations where projects lack a PTL candidate by the end of the nomination period. You'll hear more about these in the coming weeks. The next OpenStack TC weekly meeting is today, August 13, 2024, at 18:00 UTC. It will be hosted on OFTC in the #openstack-tc channel. The agenda has been shared on the meeting wiki [7]. I hope you'll join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Update criteria for inactive projects to become active again | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921500 - Reset the DPL model for the Freezer project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925830 - Re-initiate the DPL model for the Freezer project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925997 - Reset the DPL model for the Watcher project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925831 - Reset the DPL model for the Release Management project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925832 - Add Release Management DPL and liaison names | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926055 ==== Open for Review/Discussion ==== - Opt-in to the Oslo DPL model for the 2025.1 cycle | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926154 - Reset the DPL model for the Oslo project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925834 - Define testing runtime for the 2025.1 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926150 - Retire all single charm repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 - Inactive state extensions: Monasca | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923919 - Update DPL model reset steps | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925926 === Upcoming Events === - August 14, 2024: Nominations open for 2025.1 OpenStack PTL + TC elections - August 16, 2024: Call for Proposals due for OpenInfra Days NA [8] - August 24, 2024: OpenInfra Days, Vietnam: https://2024.vietopeninfra.org/ - August 29, 2024: Dalmatian-3 milestone - September 3, 2024: OpenInfra Summit Asia, Suwon Thank you 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] Distributed Project Leadership: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/distributed-project-leadership... [3] Testing runtimes for the 2025.1 release: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926150 [4] Skip-Level Upgradable releases (SLURP): https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20220210-release-cadence-adj... [5] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2024-08-06: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhY9pxezWo [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-08-06: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-08-06-18.00.log.html [7] TC Meeting, 2024-08-13: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting [8] CFP OpenInfra Days, NA: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1U3TokM5QWTe9_MJvKbOiDc_cNNW_LlFpOL3t-Loib1Q...