Hello Stackers,

The 2024.2 release cycle is chugging along, and its last stop is 17 weeks away [1]. This week is the 2024.1 "cycle-trailing" release deadline for projects that follow this model. Typically, these are configuration management, packaging, and deployment tooling projects. In the past week, we undertook several governance activities that I'd like to summarize for you.

We made a significant change to the "Distributed Leadership" model of project governance [2]. A project's governance will default to the PTL model during elections; if the project community would like to pursue the DPL model, they can do so by nominating liaisons for that release cycle. There's also going to be a TC liaison to each project following the DPL model. The TC liaison will follow the project's activity at regular intervals and interface with the TC. These changes will hopefully help signal project health concerns earlier. The TC also clarified that we'd adopt a "formal-vote" process for project team retirements. A formal vote would mean a third of the TC endorses a change through a "roll call" vote. We also cleaned up the emerging and inactive projects list [3]. Members of the TaCT SIG have started the arduous process of cleaning up PyPi, where we had a number of human maintainer accounts for OpenStack packages [4].

=== Weekly Meeting ===

The OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) meeting on May 28, 2024, covered several topics [5]. Concerns were raised about the inactivity of projects like Freezer, Monasca, and Watcher. Discussions focused on adding TC members as temporary core reviewers to inactive projects to maintain them until new maintainers are found or to retire them if no interest is shown. A vote was held on whether the TC should be added to the Gerrit approving group for inactive projects, resulting in a split decision (4 yes, 3 no). For now, we decided to maintain the status quo. The revival of Watcher is being spearheaded by Dan Smith (dansmith) and aided by Ghanshyam Mann (gmann) and Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq).

Our next weekly meeting will be held tomorrow (June 4, 2024) simultaneously on video (Zoom) and IRC. The meeting agenda and the details on how to join are in [6]. I hope that you're able to join us!

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ==== - Remove retired project from Inactive project list | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920146 - Mark migrate-ci-jobs-to-ubuntu-jammy goal completed | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920143 - Add DPL model & liaison reset policy | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/916833 - Clarify the project retirement vs project's repository retirement | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/919984 - Simplifying house rule for project-updates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920318

==== Open for review/discussion ==== - Appoint ChunYang Wu as PTL of Trove | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920462 - Migrate eventlet usages to asyncio | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 - Update to include docs and miscellaneous repos for AC status | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/915021

The OpenStack Technical Committee serves you! We're always willing to chat with you and would love feedback:

=== How to contact the TC === You can reach out to the TC in multiple ways: 1. Email: you can send the email with the tag [tc] on this email list. 2. Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel. 3. Join us at our weekly meeting: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1800 UTC [6].

Finally, if you got this far, I hope you found this update helpful. I'd appreciate it if you had any feedback regarding the format, content, frequency, or timing of this weekly email. Please feel free to email me off-list if you're more comfortable doing so.

Thank you very much for reading!

On behalf of the OpenStack TC,

Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair

[1] https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/distributed-project-leadership... [3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/emerging-technology-and-inacti... [4] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack-pypi-maintainers-cleanup#L52 [5] https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-05-28-18.00.log.html [6] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting