Hello Stackers, We're a couple of days away from milestone-3 of the 2025.2 ("Epoxy") release cycle [1]. For OpenStack project teams with deliverables following the "cycle-with-rc" release model [2], 2025-02-27 marks a Feature Freeze [2]. Client software releases are also due on this date, and from next week, we'll be actively squashing bugs to tag and ship release candidates. Last week, we concluded the nomination period for project leaders for 40+ OpenStack project teams and for 5 seats on the Technical Committee. We have just enough or fewer nominees than there are positions. Since no polls are needed, Ian Y Choi (ianychoi) and Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq), our election officials, are working with the TC to conclude the process. The TC will also work with project teams to appoint leaders for projects where there were no PTL nominees during the nomination window. More details about this will be shared on this mailing list as soon as they are available. Also, in the past week, the TC made some governance changes regarding the Ironic project. Several project contributors stepped up to be liaisons and adopt the Distributed Project Leadership model for the upcoming release [3]. The team also deprecated ironic-lib [4], as its relevant code has moved into the Ironic service and Ironic Python Agent. === Weekly Meeting === The TC met on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel on 2025-02-18 [5]. Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) and Artem Goncharov (gtema) noted their collaboration with the OSLO project team to expand the core team of the openstackdocstheme and os-api-ref repositories. This expansion is expected to support work to create OpenAPI specifications for OpenStack API services. We discussed the kinds of contributions that qualify individuals as Active Contributors, making them eligible to vote or contest in OpenStack elections. This follows our recent inclusion of governance repositories in the list of repositories counted for contributions. We encouraged project teams to actively nominate additional contributors—those who support their teams through invaluable work such as code review, bug grooming, documentation, mentoring, managing trackers, events, and communication. This can be done by adding "extra-acs" to https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/project... before the Extra-AC freeze. The freeze has passed for the 2025.1 release cycle; however, you can propose Extra-ACs for the upcoming cycle now. Besides being eligible as candidates and voters, Extra-ACs will also appear on the release contributor list. We also brought up patches proposing to tag "end-of-life" for "unmaintained" branches: Wallaby [6], Xena [7], and Yoga [8]. These patches will remain open for 30 days, allowing contributors who wish to maintain these branches to step up. If no objections arise, these patches will be merged, and the branches will be deleted. Finally, we analyzed recent CI usage statistics and found that some projects, such as openstack/tacker, had significantly high node usage (averaging 119 nodes per patch in the check queue), consuming approximately 25% of the total aggregate quota. We will summarize our findings in a separate post to this list. The next IRC meeting of the OpenStack TC will be held today, 2025-02-25, at 1800 UTC in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please find the agenda in the meeting wiki [9]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Switch Ironic to Distributed Leadership | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/941935 - Cleanup policy popup leads list | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/941148 - Deprecate ironic-lib | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939278 ==== Open for Review ==== - Add TC/PTL results from 2025.2 election | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/942507 - Add Extra-ACs to the tech committee repos | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/942296 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 === Upcoming Events === - 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) - 2025-03-11: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-04-07: OpenInfra PTG Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] "cycle-with-rc" release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [2] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [3] Switch Ironic to Distributed Leadership: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/941935 [4] Deprecate ironic-lib: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939278 [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-02-18: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-02-04-18.00.log.html [6] Transition unmaintained/wallaby to EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/941458 [7] Transition unmaintained/xena to EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/942201 [8] Transition unmaintained/yoga to EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/942218 [9] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-02-25: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting