Hello Stackers, The 2024.2 release train is chugging along, and its final stop is 11 weeks away [1]. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee updated its charter to enforce its affiliation diversity requirements during TC elections [2]. If an election results in over 50% of the TC being affiliated with the same organization, we've adopted a rule to vacate the least favored candidate elected from that organization and accommodate a non-elected candidate with a different affiliation, if one exists. We're also ideating on how to handle situations where there are no candidates from other organizations [3]. Your views are greatly appreciated. Nominations for the TC (and PTL) elections for 2025.2 open on 2024-08-14. You'll begin to receive election-specific emails soon. In other news, Jeremy Stanley (fungi) shared the OpenInfra Foundation's Diversity and Inclusion Working Group updates on this list recently [4]. I encourage you to participate in the survey that the group has put together [5]. It's open year-round, and the feedback gathered will be incorporated continuously. === Weekly Meeting === Last week's Technical Committee meeting was well attended, and the meeting was logged to eavesdrop [6]. We discussed project activity and gate issues in Monasca, Freezer, Skyline, Tacker, Masakari, Zaqar, and Adjutant. We're very glad to see the project teams' responsiveness to the concerns raised. Monasca and Freezer teams have expressed their desire to remain "inactive" through this release cycle. A proposal has been made to move Skyline from the list of "Emerging" projects. The TC will review these proposals in the coming week. The retirement of the "kuryr-kubernetes" repository was held off temporarily to address dependencies within Tacker. The next Technical Committee meeting is tomorrow, 2024-07-16! The meeting will be hosted on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel, and the agenda has been posted to the Meetings Wiki Page [7]. Please consider joining us! === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== Adding a rule to manage the affiliation diversity requirement in the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922512 ==== Open for review/discussion ==== Follow up on the affiliation diversity handling | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923876 Move Skyline out from the "Emerging Projects" list | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/924109 Transition Watcher project to DPL | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923583 Inactive state extensions: Monasca | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923919 Update to include docs and miscellaneous repos for AC status | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/915021 Update criteria for the inactive projects to become active again | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921500 Inactive state extensions: Freezer | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923441 Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507 Remove Eventlet From OpenStack | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 The OpenStack Technical Committee serves you! We're always willing to chat with you and would love feedback: === How to contact the TC === You can reach out to the TC in multiple ways: 1. Email: you can send the email with the tag [tc] on this email list. 2. Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel 3. Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1800 UTC [7] === Upcoming Events === 2024-08-14: Nominations open for 2025.1 OpenStack PTL+TC elections 2024-08-24: OpenInfra Days, Vietnam: https://2024.vietopeninfra.org/ 2024-08-29: Dalmatian-3 milestone Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] TC Diversity Requirement: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#tc-diversity-requ... [3] Following up on affiliation diversity: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923876 [4] OpenInfra D&I initiatives and survey: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [5] D&I survey: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openinfra_diversity_inclusio... [6] TC Meeting IRC Logs, 2024-07-09: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-07-09-18.00.log.html [7] TC Meeting, 2024-07-16: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting