[tc][all] OpenStack Technical Committee Weekly Summary and Meeting Agenda (2025.2/R-14)
Hello Stackers, We're fourteen weeks away from the coordinated 2025.2 "Flamingo" release of OpenStack [1], and Milestone-2 for this release is on 2025-07-03. In the past week, the Call for Papers for the upcoming OpenInfra Summit in Paris-Saclay ended; however, the deadline to propose Forum sessions and Project Updates sessions is 2025-07-08 at 23:59 PST [2]. This time at the summit, there's also a "New Contributor Showcase" inviting presentations on projects that leverage or support open infrastructure. Whether it’s your first contribution, an open source tool, or a collaboration with a community, we want to hear about it, so please consider applying [3]. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee did not merge any new governance changes. A few change proposals are open for the community's input. OpenDev Infra administrators and OpenStack's Release Management team have posted several changes to begin enforcing the Developer Certificate of Origin in lieu of the Contributor License Agreement from July 1, 2025 [4]. If you haven't already begun using "git commit -s" to sign off your commits in adherence to the DCO, please do so. As a reminder, from July 1st, OpenDev's Gerrit system (https://review.opendev.org) will reject any changes that do not include a "Signed-off-by" line in the commit message. Simultaneously, the existing CLAs will no longer be available for new contributors to sign. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack Technical Committee met on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel on 2025-06-17 [5]. The team confirmed plans to transition to DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin) by July 1st, approving updates to the contributor guide and discussing the ongoing process of integrating DCO across tools and translations. We then focused on improving the contributor experience, with analyses of review metrics being shared with various project teams like Nova and Cinder through weekly IRC meetings. This data collection aims to identify pain points and best practices to inform future strategies. We plan to drive collective attention to this effort during the PTG in October. We also discussed the level of activity in the Cyborg project. We have had issues contacting the core maintainers to get some critical fixes merged, and the TC agreed to begin the process to mark the project "inactive." This decision aligns with the upcoming M-2 release deadline. The discussion also prompted a health check on several project teams. We'll be discussing this in further detail on proposals directly on Gerrit, or in a future weekly meeting. OpenDev Infra administrators completed a transition from Nodepool to Zuul-launcher and pleasantly have not seen any negative impact on the CI. During an Open Discussion, concerns were raised about the timeline specified by the Eventlet Removal TC goal [6]. Nova maintainers, in particular, expressed the need for more time to ensure a stable transition to threading and adequate operator testing, suggesting a revised target of 2028.1 for full Eventlet removal, a point that will be further debated on the mailing list [7] and a Gerrit proposal [8]. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2025-06-24. It will be hosted over IRC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel at 1700 UTC. Please find the agenda and other details on the meeting's wiki page [9]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for review ==== - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Make Eventlet removal deadlines more acceptable for operators | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 - Mark Cyborg inactive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952798 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-06-28: OpenInfra+Cloud Native Day, Vietnam: https://www.vietopeninfra.org/void2025 - 2025-07-03: OpenStack's 15th Birthday, Colombia User Group: https://www.meetup.com/colombia-openinfra-user-group/events/308383244 - 2025-07-08: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-07-19: OpenInfra Days, Indonesia: https://2025.openinfra.id/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair
On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Stackers,
We're fourteen weeks away from the coordinated 2025.2 "Flamingo" release of OpenStack [1], and Milestone-2 for this release is on 2025-07-03. In the past week, the Call for Papers for the upcoming OpenInfra Summit in Paris-Saclay ended; however, the deadline to propose Forum sessions and Project Updates sessions is 2025-07-08 at 23:59 PST [2]. This time at the summit, there's also a "New Contributor Showcase" inviting presentations on projects that leverage or support open infrastructure. Whether it’s your first contribution, an open source tool, or a collaboration with a community, we want to hear about it, so please consider applying [3].
In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee did not merge any new governance changes. A few change proposals are open for the community's input. OpenDev Infra administrators and OpenStack's Release Management team have posted several changes to begin enforcing the Developer Certificate of Origin in lieu of the Contributor License Agreement from July 1, 2025 [4]. If you haven't already begun using "git commit -s" to sign off your commits in adherence to the DCO, please do so. As a reminder, from July 1st, OpenDev's Gerrit system (https://review.opendev.org) will reject any changes that do not include a "Signed-off-by" line in the commit message. Simultaneously, the existing CLAs will no longer be available for new contributors to sign.
=== Weekly Meeting ===
The OpenStack Technical Committee met on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel on 2025-06-17 [5]. The team confirmed plans to transition to DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin) by July 1st, approving updates to the contributor guide and discussing the ongoing process of integrating DCO across tools and translations. We then focused on improving the contributor experience, with analyses of review metrics being shared with various project teams like Nova and Cinder through weekly IRC meetings. This data collection aims to identify pain points and best practices to inform future strategies. We plan to drive collective attention to this effort during the PTG in October.
We also discussed the level of activity in the Cyborg project. We have had issues contacting the core maintainers to get some critical fixes merged, and the TC agreed to begin the process to mark the project "inactive." This decision aligns with the upcoming M-2 release deadline. The discussion also prompted a health check on several project teams. We'll be discussing this in further detail on proposals directly on Gerrit, or in a future weekly meeting.
OpenDev Infra administrators completed a transition from Nodepool to Zuul-launcher and pleasantly have not seen any negative impact on the CI. During an Open Discussion, concerns were raised about the timeline specified by the Eventlet Removal TC goal [6]. Nova maintainers, in particular, expressed the need for more time to ensure a stable transition to threading and adequate operator testing, suggesting a revised target of 2028.1 for full Eventlet removal, a point that will be further debated on the mailing list [7] and a Gerrit proposal [8].
The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2025-06-24. It will be hosted over IRC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel at 1700 UTC. Please find the agenda and other details on the meeting's wiki page [9]. I hope you'll be able to join us.
=== Governance Proposals ===
==== Open for review ====
- Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Make Eventlet removal deadlines more acceptable for operators | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 - Mark Cyborg inactive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952798
=== Upcoming Events ===
- 2025-06-28: OpenInfra+Cloud Native Day, Vietnam: https://www.vietopeninfra.org/void2025 - 2025-07-03: OpenStack's 15th Birthday, Colombia User Group: https://www.meetup.com/colombia-openinfra-user-group/events/308383244 - 2025-07-08: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-07-19: OpenInfra Days, Indonesia: https://2025.openinfra.id/
Thank you very much for reading!
On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair
(sigh, here are the references:) [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] OpenInfra Summit CFP for Forum and Project Updates: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/cfp/ [3] New Contributor Showcase @ OpenInfra Summit: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/new-contributors-at-the-openinfra-summit/ [4] OpenStack requires DCO: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20250520-replace-the-cla-wit... [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-06-17: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025//tc.2025-06-17-17.00.html [6] TC Goal to replace Eventlet in OpenStack: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/remove-eventlet.html [7] Eventlet timeline on openstack-discuss: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [8] Eventlet timeline: Make Eventlet removal deadlines more acceptable for operators | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 [9] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-06-24: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting
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