Hello Stackers, Welcome to the Project Teams Gathering week [1][2]. Throughout the week, there are a lot of discussions planned over multiple tracks. The OpenStack Technical Committee will be meeting virtually as well as a part of this, and the meetings are between 1600 UTC and 1800 UTC on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, and between 1600 UTC and 1800 UTC on Friday, October 31, 2025. At 1600 UTC on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, we'll be meeting with maintainers across all project teams. If you are a PTL, a DPL liaison, or a core reviewer, please join us so we can have a productive discussion on impactful cross-project work that needs to happen in the 2026.1 "Gazpacho" release. The rest of the week is action-packed as well. I'd recommend that you consult the discussion Etherpads and stay plugged in via the #openinfra-events IRC channel on OFTC. If you'd like to propose new topics on the TC's PTG etherpad [3], please add them at the end of the pad under "Parking Lot," and I'll try to get them scheduled. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack Technical Committee held its last weekly IRC meeting on October 21, 2025 [4]. We confirmed the inactivity of the Vitrage and Venus project teams, noting they could face retirement before the M-2 milestone of the 2026.2 release if activity doesn't resume. A significant portion of the discussion focused on the long-standing inactive status of Monasca, with most present TC members strongly favoring proceeding with its retirement. There was also a preference for keeping it inactive for another cycle due to awareness of external interest in reviving it, though this interest has yet to materialize into active contributions. The consensus was to seek more votes on the retirement patch and close this out after the Project Teams Gathering. Other updates included the Skyline project's core reviewer self-nomination [5], where the Project Team Lead (PTL) welcomed the candidate, but the TC agreed that adding the person to the core reviewer group was premature given their lack of review history. Patches in the CI to reflect Gazpacho release runtime updates have merged [6], with only a patch for Grenade struggling with CI instability. Gate health is generally stable, though the recent outages of docker.io and quay.io highlighted a need for more autonomy in container image hosting. Finally, the committee discussed topics for the upcoming Project Team Gathering (PTG), including the need to address the use of unmaintained crypto libraries across OpenStack projects. The TC will not be meeting over IRC this week in lieu of the PTG. Weekly IRC meetings will resume next on November 4, 2025. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 ==== Open For Review ==== - Propose jlarriba to Telemetry PTL | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/964516 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-10-27: OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ - 2025-11-04: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-11-15: Celebrating 15 years of OpenStack, Montréal - 2025-11-15: KCD + OpenInfra Days, Hangzhou: https://sessionize.com/kcd-hangzhou-and-oicd-2025/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] 2026.1 PTG Etherpads: https://ptg.opendev.org/etherpads.html [3] OpenStack TC 2026.1 PTG Etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2025-ptg-os-tc [4] TC Meeting IRC Log, Oct 21, 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-10-21-08.00.html [5] 2026.1 runtime update: https://review.opendev.org/q/hashtag:%222026-1-runtime-update%22+(status:ope...) [6] Skyline core contributor discussion: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack....