Hello Stackers,

Projects following a cycle-with-rc release model are hard at work alongside the release team to tag the first version of the 2024.2 release candidates (RC) this week [1]. The community would appreciate testing of these RC builds so we can weed out any critical issues prior to the coordinated release of this software in three weeks (2024-10-04). The OpenStack Technical Committee Election is ongoing. If you are a Foundation Individual Member who has been an Active Contributor during the past year, you should have received an email ballot with the details. If you haven't, please pop into #openstack-election and let us know. I hope you'll be able to make your vote count.

=== Weekly Meeting ===

The OpenStack Technical Committee met simultaneously over video [2] and IRC [3] last week. We took note of the smooth kick-off to the community elections and appreciated the effort the election officials have put in thus far. With the retirement of several inactive project teams and some focused outreach, we had far fewer projects without PTL candidates this time [4]. I will keep you posted on the TC's course of action in this matter over the next few weeks. At the meeting, we brainstormed reasons why these project teams had no PTL candidates, and whether Distributed Project Leadership is an appropriate choice for relatively stable project teams. We reflected on the community's experience with leadership appointments in the past where the appointed individuals couldn't sustain the project. These past experiences will help shape the TC's decisions.

We noted that the maintenance phase transition for the stable/2023.1 ("Antelope") branch is coming up. The release team estimates transitioning the "stable/2023.1" branch across OpenStack repositories to "unmaintained/2023.1" [5] around 2024-10-30. After this transition, no further releases will be produced from these branches. If you are relying on this branch, please help project teams maintain testing and continuous integration for it. However, note that the release would be 19 months old at the time of this transition; consider upgrading the software to newer releases instead.

The TC is considering a change to the OpenStack CI policy of re-enqueuing changes through Zuul when approved patches fail to get merged. Currently, if a change that fails "gate" jobs is re-enqueued, "check" jobs are re-run if new changes are detected in the repository. A suggestion was made to alter this policy so that only the "gate" jobs are repeated. We decided to defer this discussion to the upcoming PTG in October.

We concluded the meeting by acknowledging the contributions Jay Faulkner (JayF) and Dan Smith (dansmith) made during their time on the TC. The elections will conclude on 2024-09-18. Again, please vote if you haven't already! :)

The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today: 2024-09-10. It will be hosted on OFTC's #openstack-tc channel at 1800 UTC. Please find the agenda on the meeting's wiki page [6]. I hope you'll be able to join. Please remember that you can propose discussion items to the agenda.

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ====

- Fix typo in tested runtimes documents | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/928603

==== Open for review ====

- Add goal to migrate CI/CD jobs to Ubuntu Noble | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/928078 - Adding Axel Vanzaghi as PTL for Mistral | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/927962 - Charms: retire unmaintained charms | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/926793 - Retire all single charm repositories | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903490 - Retire kuryr-kubernetes and kuryr-tempest-plugin | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/922507

=== Upcoming Events ===

- 2024-09-10: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.dev/ - 2024-09-18: OpenStack 2025.1 Election Polling Ends - 2024-10-15: OpenInfra Days NA, Indianapolis: https://ittraining.iu.edu/explore-topics/titles/oid-iu/ - 2024-10-21: OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering https://openinfra.dev/ptg/

=== How to Contact the TC ===

You can reach out to the TC in multiple ways: 1. **Email**: Send an email with the tag [tc] on this email list. 2. **IRC**: Ping us using the 'tc-members' keyword on the #openstack-tc IRC channel. 3. **Weekly Meeting**: The Technical Committee meets every week on Tuesdays at 1800 UTC [6].

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] TC Meeting Video Recording, 2024-09-03: https://youtu.be/22oyI9vuvhM [3] TC Meeting IRC Log, 2024-09-03: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-09-03-18.00.log.html [4] "Leaderless" projects for the 2025.1 release cycle: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/2025.1-leaderless [5] "Unmaintained" branches: https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#unmaintai... [6] TC Meeting Agenda, 2024-08-27: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting