Hello Stackers, We're now past milestone-1 of the 2025.1 ("Epoxy") release cycle [1]. As a contributor/maintainer, you have probably made plans to adjust your goals and project deliverables in light of the likely drop in capacity for the year-end holiday season that's ahead. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee didn't commit any new governance changes; however, we're actively working on our action items from the PTG [2]. === Weekly Meeting === The TC's weekly meeting last week was well attended [3]. Clark Boylan (clarkb) noted that contributors were reaching out to OpenDev Infrastructure Maintainers via IRC and the Zuul email list seeking help to set up and configure "third-party" CI systems to meet the requirements set by several projects (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Manila, ...). Contributors often lack clear documentation and support for setting up these systems, leading to misplaced queries on Zuul or OpenDev channels. We agreed that there is a lack of centralized, up-to-date documentation regarding CI systems put together to test things outside of the purview of the community's Zuul CI. We have lost mindshare regarding third-party CI setup and maintenance, and this hurts the participation of vendor driver maintainers. The TC would love to see interested parties come together to re-form the "Third-Party CI SIG." If we're unable to meaningfully help contributors with this, we must evaluate whether third-party CI should remain a mandatory requirement for service projects. It was highlighted that Nova maintains a dedicated weekly topic to discuss specific third-party CI issues, a model other projects might emulate. We also discussed kicking off the election planning for the 2025.2 cycle. There will be 5 seats available on the OpenStack TC, and every OpenStack project team will elect a PTL or liaison [4]. Election officials will convene over the next few weeks to propose election dates and other details. There's still time to volunteer to be an election official. Please contact me off-list if you're interested! The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today (11/18/2024) at 1800 UTC. This meeting will be held via IRC on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel. Please find the meeting agenda on the meeting wiki [5]. I hope you're able to attend. Please remember, you can always propose new topics for this meeting, and it's a great way to synchronously engage with the TC every week. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for Review ==== rework the initial goal proposal as suggested by people | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 Propose to select the eventlet-removal community goal | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/931254 Add Cinder Huawei charm | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/867588 Resolve to adhere to non-biased language | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/934907 ==== Merged ==== Add ubuntu noble migration goal tracking etherpad | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/935461 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] OpenStack TC's Epoxy PTG Summary: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [3] TC Meeting IRC Log 2024-11-12: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-11-12-18.00.log.html [4] OpenStack Election website: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ [5] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-11-19: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee