Hello Stackers,

After 26 weeks of effort across the community, we're finally at the release week for the 2024.2 release [1], codenamed 'Dalmatian'. I'll cue "Who Let the Dogs Out" for 2024-10-02 and toast the successful delivery of the 30th release of OpenStack with all of you. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions in making this yet another on-time release. Please tune into the OpenInfra Live episode at 1400 UTC on 2024-10-03 [2], where you'll hear from a few Project Team Leads about the new and exciting things included in this release.

Over the past week, the OpenStack TC assisted the release team in tagging a few deliverables, and on its behalf, I'd like to commend the release team for pulling out all the stops to ensure yet another on-time release. It takes a village, as Jeremy Stanley (fungi) noted on IRC — the happy, buzzing Stackerton village. We also merged some governance changes in the meantime. Notably, we adopted a community goal to move all existing Ubuntu testing to the latest LTS [3], and we retired several charms repositories after their consolidation into the Sunbeam-charms project [4].

I am pleased to welcome Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk) as the Vice Chair for the TC, and I thank the outgoing Vice Chair, Dr. Jens Harbott (frickler), for his contributions during the 2024.2 release cycle. Next week, as we step into the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release cycle formally [5], we'll switch into PTG and planning mode and chart out the remaining release priorities early.

=== Weekly Meeting ===

The Technical Committee's weekly meeting was held over IRC on 2024-09-24 [6]. We began the meeting by welcoming new members and thanking outgoing ones. We appointed a TC Chair (me) and a Vice Chair (noonedeadpunk) for the 2025.1 release cycle. We then worked through several 2024.2 release issues. We were presented with a peculiar, but familiar problem involving release deliverables that couldn't proceed without help from project maintainers who were unavailable during the release crunch.

The release team prepares release candidate patches a week before the RC1 deadline and encourages project maintainers to vote on them. They also submit changes to the respective repositories to verify the state of the CI system to prevent releasing broken code. However, when a project team doesn't respond, there's a risk to the coordinated release. We brainstormed strategies to deal with the current conundrum. Thanks to noonedeadpunk and the attentiveness of project maintainers in Zun and Barbican, we were able to fix broken CI jobs and tag release candidates for some projects. However, we couldn't determine the state of "kuryr-kubernetes" and "kuryr-tempest-plugin." These projects, flagged earlier as unmaintained, are expected to be retired soon, so there are no releases from these projects in the 2024.2 release stream. If you depend on these projects, please let us know. We are looking for maintainers who can commit to reviving the CI and furthering these projects.

The next OpenStack TC meeting is on 2024-10-01 at 1800 UTC. This meeting will be held simultaneously via video and IRC. Please find the agenda and other meeting details in our meeting wiki [7]. I hope you'll be able to join us. Remember, you can always edit the agenda and propose new topics!

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ====

- Retire all single charm repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 - Select community-wide goal: migrate CI/CD jobs to Ubuntu Noble | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/929703 - Add 2025.1 TC chair and vice-chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/930376 - Add chair nomination folder for 2025.1 | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/929970 - Add GouthamR nomination for 2025.1 TC chair | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/929971

==== Open for Review ====

- Appoint Tim Burke as PTL for Swift | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/928881 - Add Axel Vanzaghi as PTL for Mistral | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/927962 - Mark kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin as Inactive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/929698 - Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507

=== Upcoming Events ===

- 2024-10-02: OpenInfra Live - Introducing OpenStack Dalmatian 2024.2 [2] - 2024-10-08: OpenInfra Monthly Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.dev/ - 2024-10-15: OpenInfra Days NA, Indianapolis: https://ittraining.iu.edu/explore-topics/titles/oid-iu/ - 2024-10-21: OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering https://openinfra.dev/ptg/

=== How to Contact the TC ===

You can reach the TC in several ways: 1. Email: send an email with the tag [tc] on this mailing 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].

Thank you very much for reading!

On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair

[1] 2024.2 "Dalmatian" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] Introducing OpenStack Dalmatian 2024.2: https://openinfra.dev/live/ [3] Goal: migrate CI/CD jobs to Ubuntu Noble: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/929703 [4] Retire all single charm repositories: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 [5] 2025.1 "Epoxy" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-09-24: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-09-24-17.59.log.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-10-01: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee