Hello Stackers, We're six weeks away from the release date for the 2025.2 "Flamingo" release [1]. We will observe a feature freeze for this release on August 28th. Nominations for TC and PTL elections are due by August 20th at 23:45 UTC [2]. Please remember that you must be a member of the OpenInfra Foundation to contest these elections. The OIF's recent move under the Linux Foundation meant that any prior member is not automatically considered a member unless they accept this change by renewing their membership [3]. To run as a Project Team Lead, one must also have contributed to the project in the one-year period prior to the nomination deadline. We check this by matching the data between the candidate's OIF profile and their contributions on Gerrit. I understand that several well-meaning candidacies could hit roadblocks because of these requirements. We'd be happy to respond to concerns in the #openstack-election channel on OFTC. Ghanshyam Maan (gmaan), a long-serving member of the TC, would like to take a break and will not be contesting the upcoming elections. I'd like to thank him for his many years of service on the TC, including as its chair. I'm excited to see other community members step up to join the TC in his stead. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee worked with several project teams (Oslo, Requirements, Release Management, Freezer, and Ironic) to reaffirm their distributed leadership model and confirm their liaisons for the upcoming release. We also made some progress on retiring repositories owned by the Monasca project team. The governance proposal [4] to that effect is under the community's review. The community is requested to review the proposed runtime (Python versions and Linux distributions) update for the Gazpacho/2026.1 release cycle [5]. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was hosted in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel on August 12th, 2025 [6]. We checked on the progress of retiring the Monasca project team. We also discussed the retirement of the refstack-server in the opendev namespace, noting that while the server has been deleted, a desire remains within the community for a lightweight "certification" process to promote interoperability among providers. However, no one has yet committed to leading this effort. If you're reading this and are interested in working on this, please chime in on this list, or within the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. The conversation then shifted to the health of the gate and the future supported runtimes [5]. Infra administrators noted that the OpenMetal provider is back online in Zuul and that they are working on adding Debian Trixie and dropping older content like Xenial. As for the runtime for Gazpacho, there was a detailed discussion about dropping Python 3.10 and Ubuntu 22.04, with a consensus to drop the latter but a more cautious approach to Python 3.10, which will remain a minimum supported version for now. The group also agreed to include Python 3.13 as a maximum supported version, as recent bug fixes in eventlet make it viable for testing. The next meeting of the TC is today, August 19th, 2025, at 1700 UTC. This meeting will be hosted over IRC, in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the meeting's agenda in the wiki [7]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open For Review ==== - Reset watcher project leadership from DPL back to PTL | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/956913 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Define testing runtime for 2026.1 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/957199 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-08-20: Nominations close for OpenStack elections: - 2025-08-26: OpenInfra Days, Korea: https://2025.openinfradays.kr/ - 2025-08-28: Feature Freeze deadline, Milestone-3 of the Flamingo release [1] - 2025-08-29: Colombia OpenInfra User Group Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/colombia-openinfra-user-group/events/307096751/ - 2025-09-09: OIF Board Monthly meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-10-17: OpenInfra Summit, Paris-Saclay: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/ 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] Contesting elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy [3] Renew OIF membership: https://openinfra.org/a/renew-membership [4] Retiring Monasca: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 [5] Runtime update for 2026.1: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/957199 [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, Aug 12th 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-08-12-17.00.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda, Aug 19th 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting