Hello Stackers, We're four weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. We're past feature freeze at this point, and project teams are expected to be busy finding and fixing bugs in order to ship our first release candidates in the next couple of weeks. In the past week, five seats on the OpenStack Technical Committee were renewed [2]. I'd like to thank Artem Goncharov (gtema) for the years he spent on the TC. He brought unique perspectives as the PTL of several projects. I'd also like to congratulate Amy Marrich (spotz), Dmitriy Robotyegov (noonedeadpunk), and Dan Smith (dansmith) for being re-elected to the TC. Elections are underway for new PTLs for the Barbican and Horizon project teams. No new governance proposals were merged in the last week. As we wrap up this release cycle, the TC's focus will switch to ensuring a smooth transition between project leaders, filling vacant governance positions within projects, renewing liaisons for cross-project work, and finalizing the tested runtimes for the upcoming release cycle [3]. === Weekly Meeting === The last meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was hosted on February 24, 2026, in the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC [4]. We had a candid discussion regarding the size of the TC relative to the community; while there is an argument for shrinking the committee to match candidate interest, our stance is that our workload remains high, and a smaller group would struggle to maintain the necessary oversight without burning out. We took a moment to thank gtema as he ends his term; his expertise in Keystone and the OpenStack SDK has been invaluable, and while he is stepping down from the TC, his "healthy frustration" with bureaucracy will no doubt continue to drive improvements across the projects he leads. We then began our work on stabilizing "leaderless" teams. We noted that Oslo requires a dedicated release liaison to keep our foundational libraries moving. We are hoping that more individuals from the core maintainer team for Oslo participate in the project's formal governance. We discussed a PTL nomination that was blocked due to contribution requirements. The committee seemed supportive of changing how we define contribution. We are going to explore a TC charter change to grant Active Contributor (AC) status to consistent reviewers (+2/+3), recognizing that the "unseen" work of code review is just as vital to project health as code changes themselves. Regarding the gate, a massive update to upper-constraints merged this week, touching over 140 non-OpenStack dependencies. Across project teams, the immediate priority was "de-borking" stable branches due to these changes and monitoring for regressions on the "master" branches to ensure the 2026.1 release remains stable. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today, March 3, 2026. This meeting will be hosted in the #openstack-tc IRC channel on OFTC. Please find the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [5]. I hope to see you there. === Upcoming Events === - 2026-03-10: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2026-03-12: 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Candidates due - 2026-03-23: KubeCon+Cloud Native Con EU begins: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/ - 2026-04-20: OpenInfra PTG begins: https://openinfra.org/ptg/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] OpenStack TC: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/#current-members [3] Tested runtimes for 2026.2: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/976691 [4] TC Meeting IRC Log, February 24, 2026: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2026/tc.2026-02-24-17.00.html [5] TC Meeting Agenda, March 03, 2026: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting