Hello Stackers,

We're officially at Milestone 2 of the 2024.2 ("Dalmatian") release cycle [1]. Alongside spec reviews and other project-specific deadlines, this is the week to look out for intermediary releases of several OpenStack projects and close out bug fixes, or re-target open ones for a future milestone. We're soon going to see some patches to add the code name that was picked for the 2025.1 release (31st release!) of OpenStack: "Epoxy" [2]. I probably jinxed the animal theme, but Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) told me that Epoxy will be "the glue that holds our clouds together."

The Technical Committee was reviewing project activity in Monasca [3], Freezer, and Skyline [4]. As you've probably gathered from the discussion on this list and elsewhere, Monasca seems ready to leave the "inactive" project list and Skyline seems set to graduate from the "emerging" project list [5]. The respective project teams will need to make these proposals, and I'll keep you posted on how that evolves. The Freezer project team would like to continue to keep the "inactive" project tag through this release as they continue to stabilize the codebase and the CI jobs. This means that there will be no releases from the Freezer team during the 2024.2 ("Dalmatian") release cycle.

Hervé Beraud (hberaud) and Mike Bayer (zzzeek) will be joining us at the Technical Committee monthly video meeting tomorrow (2024-07-02) to preview the work ahead of us to remove eventlet from OpenStack [6][7]. If you are an OpenStack project maintainer, packager, or operator, please consider joining so we can have a productive discussion.

=== Weekly Meeting ===

The Technical Committee met last week on OFTC's #openstack-tc IRC channel [8]. We discussed several in-progress changes, including a proposal to address affiliation diversity violations that may occur during TC elections. There was an emphasis on gate health. Thanks to a few patches to devstack, tempest, and devstack plugins, several integrated gate jobs were more stable over the past couple of weeks. As noted last week, CentOS Stream 8 is now EOL, and hence any test jobs that were relying on this OS are now perma-failing. This is a call-out to project maintainers to clean up their test jobs across all code branches. Currently, a search of trunk branches reveals that centos-stream-8 nodes are required for test jobs in Tempest, Rally, Tenks, Ansible tests, and tempest plugins of Octavia, Telemetry, and Cinder. Please do look at cruft left behind in older stable and "unmaintained" branches as well. TC members also brainstormed on projects that are seemingly active, but the project's core team is unresponsive to new contributors. This is against the Open Community principles that we adhere to [9]. If you're aware of instances of this happening, please do let the TC know.

Our next weekly meeting is held simultaneously on Video and IRC. Details, including the meeting's agenda, are in [7]. I hope you'll be able to participate. As always, our IRC meetings are logged to eavesdrop [10], and our Video meeting recordings are uploaded to YouTube [11].

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ====

Show TC and SIG repos under reference | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/918488

==== Open for review/discussion ====

Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507 Update to include docs and miscellaneous repos for AC status | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/915021 Adding a rule to manage the affiliation diversity requirement in the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922512 Update criteria for the inactive projects to become active again | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/921500 Remove Eventlet From OpenStack | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585

=== Upcoming Events ===

2024-07-02: Monthly Technical Committee Video+IRC meeting 2024-07-02: OpenInfra Board Meeting -: https://board.openinfra.dev/meetings/ 2024-07-04: Milestone-2 of the 2024.2 release cycle

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] OpenStack "Epoxy": https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [3] Reviving Monasca: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] Graduating Skyline: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [5] Emerging Technology and Inactive Projects: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/emerging-technology-and-inacti... [6] Goal proposal to "Remove Eventlet from OpenStack": https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 [7] Agenda for the OpenStack TC Meeting on 1st July 2024: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting [8] TC Meeting log (2024-06-25): https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-06-25-18.00.log.html [9] "Open Community": https://opendev.org/openinfra/four-opens/src/branch/master/doc/source/openco... [10] Past TC meetings: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/ [11] YouTube channel recordings of past TC meetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34w1Aoai1EA&list=PLhwOhbQKWT7Ui1KPL7MLIq...