Hello Stackers, We're at milestone-1 of the 2025.2 "Flamingo" release cycle [1]. This bug-targeting deadline is usually also a good checkpoint to review design specifications, plan feature reviews, and request releases of libraries and clients. In the past week, members of the OpenStack Technical Committee participated in a meeting to review guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence to make code/documentation contributions to OpenInfra projects. The meeting [2] focused on improving the current policy for AI-generated content [3], reacting to recent developments. The use of generative/predictive/agentic AI tools is pervasive in our field, and it may be untenable to impose blanket restrictions. So there were some suggestions around situations of use with interesting perspectives. The OpenInfra Board will continue to deliberate this, and your opinions are welcome. TC members also participated in the OpenInfra AI working group [4] meeting where FPT SmartCloud shared their experience running an OpenStack cloud purpose-built for AI workloads. Details regarding this meeting and future meetings are available on the OpenInfra AI WG mailing list [5]—do consider joining. There were no new governance changes merged last week, but several are currently under review. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was held simultaneously over video [6] and IRC [7] on 2025-05-06. We discussed follow-ups to the resolution to extend the scope of the OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team [8]. We also continued our discussion about the sustainability of OpenStack Special Interest Groups [9] from the past week. SIGs require far less structure compared to project teams, and this is by design. However, there is a lack of information on how one can join many of the SIGs we have. An obvious way would be to reach out to the chairs listed on the SIG. However, in several cases, the chairs are no longer running the SIGs. There's community interest in several SIGs, so the TC intends to health-check each of the SIGs over this release cycle and brainstorm ways to improve their visibility and onboarding practices. We then moved on to a topic from the PTG about improving the contributor experience. The TC is focusing on improving the asynchronous workflow for a better developer experience. Members identified several pitfalls: - Onboarding to projects is difficult even for experienced contributors new to a repo -Many teams do not hold meetings they advertise - Patches often receive no reviews, and asking for reviews on IRC can be discouraging - Contributors are unsure who to ping for reviews This is an ongoing topic of discussion for us, and we don't have resolutions yet; however, project teams are encouraged to audit their contributor landing pages (we coyly called these "So you want to contribute...") to ensure they are up to date with information on how contributors can work with project maintainers. I'd also like to remind you that Jeremy Stanley (fungi) shared two surveys to this mailing list that could use your input as contributors [10] and project maintainers [11]. Having the information sought in these surveys will be crucial for us to improve the community and keep the OpenStack community sustainable. Please take these surveys and share them! The next weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today, 2025-05-13. This meeting will be held in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC at 1700 UTC. Please find the agenda and other details on the meeting's wiki page [12]. I hope you're able to join us. === Governance Proposals === === Open for review === - Clarify actions when no elections are required | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949431 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-05-13: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-05-22: OpenInfra UG Meetup, Sweden: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-user-group-sweden/events/306139678/ - 2025-06-03: 15 ans d'OpenStack - OpenInfra UG, Paris: https://www.meetup.com/openstack-france/events/307492285 - 2025-06-05: OpenStack 15 ans! - OpenInfra UG, Rennes: https://www.meetup.com/openstack-rennes/events/306903998 - 2025-06-28: OpenInfra+Cloud Native Day, Vietnam: https://www.vietopeninfra.org/void2025 === How to Contact the TC === You can reach the TC in several ways: - Email: send an email with the tag [tc] on this mailing list. - Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. - Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1700 UTC [12]. Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] OpenInfra Board AI policy discussion: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.371b1778a41036df1fa609f9d3d777d5 [3] OpenInfra AI policy: https://openinfra.org/legal/ai-policy [4] OpenInfra AI WG etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/OpenInfra_AI [5] OpenInfra AI WG Mailing List: https://lists.openinfra.org/mailman3/lists/ai-openstack-wg.lists.openinfra.o... [6] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2025-05-06: https://youtu.be/tBREaHLwp7Y [7] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-05-06: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-05-06-17.00.html [8] TC's VMT scope expansion resolution: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20250317-extend-scope-VMT-co... [9] OpenStack SIGs: https://governance.openstack.org/sigs/ [10] OpenStack Contributor Satisfaction Survey: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstack_contributor_satisf... [11] OpenStack Maintainer Satisfaction Survey: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstack_maintainer_satisfa... [12] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-05-13: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting