Hello Stackers, Milestone-3 of the 2024.2 ("Dalmatian") release cycle is upon us this week [1]. This milestone marks several code freeze deadlines. It's the feature freeze across all OpenStack projects that follow the "cycle-with-rc" release model [2], as well as a client library code freeze and a freeze for the global requirements and constraints. Please refer to Thierry Carrez (ttx)'s email regarding the release team's priorities for this week [3]. Alongside these significant release events, we're also wrapping up the nomination period for the combined PTL/TC Elections for the 2025.1 release cycle on 2024-08-28. If you have been considering nominating yourself for any of these leadership roles, please do not delay any further [4]. I'd like to congratulate the three Outreachy interns who successfully completed their internships this week. I encourage you to read about their experiences through their blogs. Abby Nduta (NdutaRed) [5] worked with Tatiana Ovchinnikova (tmazur) on OpenStack Horizon, while Mohd Ariq (tspyderboy) [6] and Christian Okeke Chima (ccokeke) [7] worked with Carlos Eduardo da Silva (carloss), Ashley Rodriguez (ashrodri), and me on Manila UI. Outreachy interns have been a valuable part of energizing and enriching this community over the years. Their journey in this community wouldn't be possible without generous sponsorship. Currently, the OpenStack community doesn't have funding to secure an intern for Outreachy Internships running between December 2024 and May 2025. If you're able to support this program, or know someone who can, please get in touch with the OpenStack Outreachy coordinators Mahati Chamarthy (mahatic) and Dmitri Tantsur (dtantsur) off-list. You can also ping us on OFTC's #openstack-outreachy channel. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was held on 2024-08-20. We focused most of this meeting on the implications of testing/shipping non-OSI licensed software within OpenStack. There was consensus that the current TC guidance regarding shipping binary artifacts [8] needs to be extended. A suggestion was made to disallow bundling non-OSI-compatible licensed software within binaries built, tested, and/or shipped/hosted on community infrastructure. We also discussed the need for a policy around reacting to integrated software whose licensing changes to a non-OSI-compatible license over time. This discussion gained prominence due to the Kolla project looking to ship a container image for the Masakari service that recently began supporting the use of HashiCorp's Consul [9]. Consul is one of several HashiCorp "open source" projects licensed under a "Business Source License" [10]. This was a very interesting discussion that involved a lot of questions; I recommend reading through the meeting log for the complete context [11]. Further policy discussion was tabled for an upcoming forum/PTG session with a wider audience. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is on 2024-08-27 at 1800 UTC in OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. The agenda is on our meeting wiki [12]. Please consider joining us. Remember, you can always propose topics for this meeting; feel free to edit the wiki [12], but be sure to leave your IRC nickname so we can call on you. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Inactive state extensions: Monasca | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/923919 - Update DPL model reset steps | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/925926 - Opt-in the oslo DPL model for the 2025.1 cycle | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926154 ==== Open for Review ==== - Charms: Retire unmaintained charms | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926793 - Retire all single charm repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 - Define testing runtime for the 2025.1 release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926150 === Upcoming Events === - 2024-08-28: Nomination period closes for 2025.1 OpenStack PTL+TC elections - 2024-08-29: Dalmatian-3 milestone - 2024-09-03: OpenInfra Summit Asia, Suwon - 2024-09-06: OpenInfra Days, Tokyo - 2024-09-10: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.dev/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] Cycle-with-RC release model: https://releases.openstack.org/reference/release_models.html#cycle-with-rc [3] Release countdown for week R-5: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] How to submit a candidacy: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy [5] Abby Nduta's Outreachy Blog: https://dev.to/ndutared/ [6] Mohd Ariq's Outreachy Blog: https://medium.com/@tspyderboy [7] Christian Okeke Chima's Outreachy Blog: https://dev.to/ccokeke/ [8] TC Guidelines for Managing Releases of Binary Artifacts: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20170530-binary-artifacts.ht... [9] License question - OpenStack Masakari: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org/... [10] HashiCorp licensing: https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq [11] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-08-20: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-08-20-18.00.log.html [12] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-08-27: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting