Hello Stackers, We're 8 weeks away from the coordinated 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release date [1]. On Feb 5th, election officials will begin accepting nominations for Project Team Leads for 41 teams for the 2025.2 ("Flamingo") release cycle, alongside 5 seats on the OpenStack Technical Committee with a one-year term. Together, these individuals form the indispensable leadership of this community. We seek to ensure that our community is cohesive, inclusive, and a level playing field where all voices are heard and anyone can rise to leadership positions [2]. This is an opportunity that I'd encourage you to capitalize on. Please see the election website [3] for details on how to submit your candidacy. In the news this week, the OpenStack Technical Committee resolved to include artifacts of the Disaster Recovery service ("Freezer") in the upcoming 2025.1 release [4]. We also merged a change to create a new DevStack plugin for Prometheus under the QA team. This repository will be useful for working with the OpenStack Resource Optimization service ("Watcher") in development environments. The project team driving the Watcher project also asserted their distributed project leadership for the 2025.2 release cycle. Members of the OpenStack community also participated in FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels. Amy Marrich (spotz) and Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) from the OpenStack TC were in attendance. The release team ended and deleted the "unmaintained/victoria" branch on most OpenStack repositories this week. We have volunteers who have stepped up to maintain the branch in roughly 70 repositories for now [5]. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack TC meeting last week was brief [6]. We discussed governance changes highlighted below and nudged the change to begin closing old, unmaintained code branches [5]. We checked in on project teams that had adopted the "distributed project leadership" model in the current release cycle and encouraged teams to replace inactive liaisons or revert to the PTL model for the next release cycle. Some project team meetings have yet to resume since the end-of-year holidays, and getting feedback from each liaison has been a challenge. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is today, 2025-02-04, at 1800 UTC. This meeting will be held simultaneously on Video (Zoom) and IRC (OFTC's #openstack-tc channel). Please find the agenda and Zoom link in the meeting wiki [7]. I look forward to seeing you there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Adopt DPL model for Watcher 2025.2 | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/940167 - Add devstack-plugin-prometheus repo to Quality Assurance repos | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939953 - Add resolution for late Freezer release | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939792 ==== Open for Review ==== - Define 2025 upstream investment opportunities | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939507 - Reset the DPL model for the Oslo project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939485 - Add Watcher project update liaison | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/940168 - Retire qdrouterd role | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/938193 - Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 === Upcoming Events === - 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] Open Community: https://opendev.org/openinfra/four-opens/src/branch/master/doc/source/openco... [3] How to submit your candidacy in OpenStack elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy [4] Resolution for Freezer release in Epoxy: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/939792 [5] Victoria EOL: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/937515/3..7 [6] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-01-28: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-01-28-18.00.log.html [7] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-02-04: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting