Hello Stackers, We're 15 weeks away from the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release date (2024-04-02) [1]. During the last week, the Technical Committee continued discussing the state of "unmaintained" code branches across OpenStack repositories and election officials proposed dates for the combined TC+PTL elections for the next release cycle [2]. We have decided to cancel the weekly meetings previously scheduled for 24th December and 31st December in lieu of the holidays. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack Technical Committee met over IRC on 2024-12-10 [3]. We revisited challenges with using CentOS 10 in the community CI system due to lack of AVX/AVX2 CPU flags on current cloud providers. Discussions revolved around finding providers with suitable hardware or reducing reliance on CentOS testing. We then revisited the state of "unmaintained" branches across OpenStack repositories. The oldest "unmaintained" branch tracks the "victoria" release (GA: 2020-10-14). The consensus amongst TC members was to enforce the policy to default old branches to EOL unless explicitly opted-in with required maintenance assurances. To do this, we need tooling to automate the transition, and a way to track and validate volunteer opt-ins for unmaintained branches. Volunteers stepped up to transition branches up until the 2023.1 ("Antelope") release to "end-of-life", beginning with the Victoria release branch [4]. If you're interested in keeping a particular branch open, for any repository, please express your interest directly on the gerrit change. All EOL transition patches will be merged after 1 month of community review. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2024-12-17 at 1800 UTC. This meeting will take place in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC's IRC server. Please find the meeting agenda on the wiki [5]. Please remember that you can propose topics for upcoming TC meetings by directly editing the wiki. If you're unable to do so, please holler at me (IRC nick: gouthamr) or in the TC's IRC channel (#openstack-tc). === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Retire Murano/Senlin/Sahara OpenStack-Ansible roles | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935677 ==== Open for Review ==== - Add ansible-role-httpd repo to OSA-owned projects | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935694 - Rework the initial goal proposal as suggested by people | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 - Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934936 - Allow more than 2 weeks for elections | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/937741 === 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. - IRC: Ping us using the tc-members keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. - Weekly Meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1800 UTC [5]. 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] 2025.2/"F" elections proposal: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/election/+/937408 [3] TC Meeting IRC Log 2024-12-10: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-12-10-18.01.log.html [4] Transition unmaintained/victoria to EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/937515 [5] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-12-17: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting