Hello Stackers, We're 10 weeks away from the 2025.1 coordinated "Epoxy" release [1]. Starting this week, there are several deadlines that project teams have adopted to ensure that code, specifications, and documentation changes are adequately peer-reviewed. As Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) shared to this mailing list [2], the nomination period for the upcoming Technical Committee and Project Team Leads elections will begin on 2025-02-05 and remain open until 2025-02-19. Early nominations are highly encouraged in case you'll be unavailable during this period. In the last week, the OpenStack Technical Committee selected a community goal to migrate away from the eventlet library across its codebase [3]. As with many community goals, this will be a multi-release goal and needs contributors. Please join the #openstack-eventlet-removal IRC channel on OFTC to participate in the discussion. === Weekly Meeting === Dmitriy Rabotyagov (noonedeadpunk) chaired the TC's weekly IRC meeting on 2025-01-14 [4]. We discussed the maintenance of the "openstackdocstheme" Sphinx plugin and called out some early attempts to switch documentation to a stock theme that's more maintainable and sustainable. We also reviewed a proposal from Freezer project maintainers to remove the project team from the "inactive" teams list [5]. The TC also considered requesting an exception for Freezer to release within 2025.1. In this vein, we also highlighted the need for consistent criteria to move projects out of inactive status and better tooling for indicating project health and activity. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today, 2025-01-21. This meeting will be hosted via IRC on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the meeting agenda on the wiki [6]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934936 - Rework the eventlet-removal goal proposal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 - Add ansible-role-httpd repo to OSA-owned projects | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935694 ==== Open for Review ==== - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 - Retire Freezer DR | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938183 - Retire qdrouterd role | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938193 - Remove Freezer from inactive state | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938938 - Reset the DPL model for oslo project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939485 - Reset the DPL model for Release project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939486 - Reset the DPL model for Requirement project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939487 - Reset the DPL model for Watcher project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939488 - Define 2025 upstream investment opportunities | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939507 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-01-28: OpenInfra Board Monthly Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-02-01: FOSDEM 2025 (https://fosdem.org/2025/) OpenStack's 15th Birthday Celebration - 2025-02-05: Nominations open for 2025.2 TC/PTL Elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ - 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) 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] TC/PTL Election dates for the 2025.2 cycle: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [3] Goal to Remove Eventlet from OpenStack: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/remove-eventlet.html [4] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-01-14: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-01-14-18.00.log.html [5] Remove Freezer from inactive state: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938938 [6] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-01-21: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting