Hello Stackers, Time flies! We're 11 weeks away from the 2025.1 "Epoxy" release day [1]. OpenStack project teams must be working on their deliverables according to the schedule shared by Előd Illés (elodilles) from the release team [2] this week. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) worked with election officials to adjust the dates of the elections preceding the 2025.2 ("Flamingo" [3]) release cycle. This change was made in response to a revision in the TC's charter that now allows more time for polling. Election officials will share the updated schedule on this list soon. Additionally, the TC approved the retirement of openstack-ansible roles for former projects: Murano (Application Catalog), Senlin (Clustering Service), and Sahara (Data Processing). The OpenInfra Board's Individual Member Director elections are currently underway [4]. If you are an OpenInfra Foundation member, please check your email for a ballot and participate. The election will conclude on Friday, 2025-01-17. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack TC resumed its regular weekly meeting schedule last week following a brief hiatus due to the year-end holidays. Last week's meeting was held on 2025-01-07 at 1800 UTC, simultaneously on Zoom and IRC. Please find the meeting minutes on eavesdrop [5] and a recording on YouTube [6]. The meeting began with a discussion about the pending proposal [7] to delete the "unmaintained/victoria" branch on OpenStack git repositories. There is interest from at least one contributing organization in keeping this branch open for specific repositories. The deadline to merge this change is 2025-01-31. We aim to identify the specific repositories and the responsible maintainers by then. I'll keep you updated in future emails. The TC then discussed initiating the election cycle for the 2025.2 release. We recognize that long holidays (such as the upcoming Chinese New Year) could impact nominations from interested candidates. We hope to encourage nominations as early as possible since even a couple of extra weeks could make a difference in coordinating for such a geographically diverse community. The TC also reviewed the status of the community goal to migrate test jobs to Python 3.12 (and "Ubuntu 24.04 / Noble Numbat" where applicable). Ghanshyam Mann (gmann), the goal champion, shared that test jobs in three projects (Heat, Skyline, and devstack-plugin-container) need attention from their respective project teams [8]. We also expressed our gratitude to the OpenDev Infrastructure team for keeping the systems running smoothly during the holidays. The next OpenStack Technical Committee meeting is today, 2025-01-14, at 1800 UTC. This meeting will be held over IRC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the agenda on the meeting wiki [9]. I hope you can join us. Remember, any community member can propose meeting topics—just mention your IRC nick so the meeting chair can call upon you. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Allow more than 2 weeks for elections | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/937741 - Put whitebox-tempest-plugin under release management | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938401 - Retire Murano/Senlin/Sahara OpenStack-Ansible roles | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935677 ==== Open for Review ==== - Rework the eventlet-removal goal proposal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 - Add ansible-role-httpd repo to OSA-owned projects | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935694 - Retire Freezer DR | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938183 - Retire qdrouterd role | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938193 - Remove Freezer from inactive state | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938938 - Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934936 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 === 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 1800 UTC [9]. === Upcoming Events === - 2025-01-17: 2025 OpenInfra Board Individual Member Director Elections conclude - 2025-02-01: FOSDEM 2025 (https://fosdem.org/2025/) OpenStack's 15th Birthday Celebration - 2025-02-28: 2025.1 ("Epoxy") Feature Freeze and release milestone 3 [1] - 2025-03-06: SCALE 2025 + OpenInfra Days NA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x) Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [2] Release countdown for week R-11: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [3] OpenStack 2025.2 'F' Release Naming Poll: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] OpenInfra Foundation Board Elections: https://openinfra.dev/election/2025-individual-director-election [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-01-07: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-01-07-18.00.log.html [6] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2025-01-07: https://youtu.be/-Nxul8_ykto [7] Transition unmaintained/victoria to EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/937515 [8] Projects failing the "migrate-to-noble" goal: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/migrate-to-noble#L172 [9] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-01-14: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting