Hi everyone, Following our last week PTG meeting, I’d like to share a brief summary of the key outcomes, achievements, and next steps we agreed upon for the Eventlet removal initiative. ## Flamingo Retrospective We have crossed an important milestone: over 50% of impacted projects have shown significant migration progress. 19 deliverables are fully migrated, while 32 others are currently undergoing migration work. Here are the main accomplishments delivered during Flamingo: - Eventlet now includes support for Python 3.14, ensuring compatibility with upcoming Python releases; - Oslo.service introduced a new threading backend to provide a fully threading-based execution model; - Ironic, Heat, Barbican, Mistral, and several other projects are now fully migrated; - the Neutron migration is just one step away from completion; - Nova-api, nova-metadata-api, nova-conductor nova-scheduler can now run in threading mode. ## Gazpacho Call to Actions The following actions are expected to structure our efforts for the Gazpacho development cycle: - we must enhance oslo.service to prevent fork-inherited lock deadlocks by defaulting to the spawn multiprocessing start method, which will address known Manila and Cinder bugs; WIP https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/oslo.service/+/963742 - we are preparing to merge the new opt-in H905 hacking rule to ensure consistent Eventlet usage detection across all OpenStack projects (see: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/hacking/+/959699); - we should clean up the bug tracker of migrated projects to reflect the current status of the eventlet removal efforts. Many of those projects surely have historical eventlet bugs that could be closed; - we need to maintain momentum on ongoing migrations and accelerate progress on the most delayed projects; - we should prioritize the “low-hanging-fruit” migrations, such as Cyborg and Magnum. ## Project Needing Attention Several projects have not shown any notable update during this cycle and require focus in the next series. These projects still contain Eventlet occurrences that must be addressed urgently: Blazar, Venus, Tacker, Masakari, and Zun. The TC has marked Venus and Vitrage as inactive, and these teams may be retired in 2026.2 if activity does not resume. ## Open Discussion Nova plans to focus on nova-compute, nova-novncproxy, testing improvements, and Rally-based benchmarking to fine-tune thread pool defaults, making Gazpacho the likely cycle where Nova fully switches from Eventlet to threading. Dan Smith presented a strategy idea for Glance that we could name the “Optional Eventlet Shim Strategy.” The goal of this approach is to make the use of Eventlet fully optional, allowing Glance to run without this dependency by default. To achieve this, all Eventlet-related code would be isolated outside of Glance’s core and moved into a separate module acting as a bridge. The core of Glance would remain unique and free of any references to Eventlet. If users still wish to rely on Eventlet, they would be able to install an additional module that provides the required implementation. Without this module, Glance would naturally run using the native threads concurrency mode. This approach offers a smooth transition path while preserving the ability to revert if needed, ultimately moving Glance toward a fully Eventlet-free architecture. Thank you to everyone who contributed during the PTG discussions and for the continuous efforts across teams. Let’s keep the momentum going as we enter the Gazpacho cycle and move closer to a fully Eventlet-free OpenStack. As always, you’re welcome to join us on IRC at #openstack-eventlet-removal, and you can find guidance, resources, and updates at https://removal.eventlet.org/ Thanks for your attention. -- Hervé Beraud Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat irc: hberaud https://github.com/4383/