Hello Stackers, We're three weeks away from the coordinated 2025.2 "Flamingo" release [1]. This week, project teams are testing code changes and merging bug fixes to deliver release candidates for deliverables that follow a "cycle-with-rc" release model [2]. Polls for electing a PTL for the OpenStack Dashboard ("Horizon") project team, as well as for four members to the OpenStack Technical Committee, are still open. They will close on September 17th, 2025, at 23:45 UTC [3]. In the past week, election officials reached out to a section of the electorate that hadn't opted in to emails on the election system: CIVS. Please do contact the election officials [3] if you are having trouble finding your ballot. Besides this, governance updates included marking the conclusion of the goal to migrate WSGI scripts across all OpenStack services [4] and adding new metadata to project tracking to highlight inactive OpenStack projects. This will help us make release and documentation updates to clearly flag deliverables that need help from new (or existing) contributors, as well as serve as a health indicator to operators and users. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee occurred on September 2nd, 2025, simultaneously over Meetpad [5] and IRC [6]. The "Migrate from WSGI scripts to module paths" goal was completed [4]. A significant portion of the meeting was spent discussing the proposed retirement of the Monasca project team. The TC considered whether to recommend forking the project into a new namespace on opendev.org under the aegis of the volunteer who wants to maintain it. We also discussed the need to update documentation and README files to reflect the project's maintenance status and to implement automated updates for this process. We discussed the ongoing elections, where an early retrospective item was to urge existing members to renew their OpenInfra Foundation memberships and to opt in to CIVS emails. The team reviewed "leaderless teams" and the status of projects like Vitrage, Venus and OpenStack Charms, noting that a PTL candidate is still needed. We took an action item to tag retired packages on PyPi as part of the repository retirement process. Finally, the group briefly touched on gate health issues related to Debian Trixie nodes and a new discussion point about default MySQL/MariaDB charset/collations that will be addressed in the next meeting. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is on September 9th, 2025, at 1700 UTC. This meeting will be hosted in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please find the meeting's agenda on its wiki page [7]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Show inactive project status in project.yaml | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/958229 - Mark "Migrate from WSGI scripts" goal as completed | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/958817 ==== Open For Review ==== - Retire metalsmith project from bare metal program | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/958297 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 - Extend Monasca's inactive state | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/959392 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-09-09: OIF Board Monthly meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-09-17: OpenStack TC and Horizon project elections conclude: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ - 2025-10-01: OpenStack 2026.1 "Flamingo" release day - 2025-10-03: OpenStack's Birthday Meetup, Austin: https://www.meetup.com/openinfra-austin/events/310508680 - 2025-10-17: OpenInfra Summit, Paris-Saclay: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/ - 2025-10-27: OpenInfra PTG: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ === 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. - Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. - Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1700 UTC [7]. Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] "cycle-with-rc" release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [3] OpenStack Elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ [4] Community Goal to update WSGI configuration: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/proposed/migrate-from-wsgi-scripts... [5] TC Meeting Video Recording, Sep 2nd, 2025: https://youtu.be/K_tdk4mkxT0 [6] TC Meeting IRC Log, Sep 2nd, 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-09-02-17.01.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda, Sep 9th, 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting