Hello Stackers, We're seventeen weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. On Thursday this week, we'll be wrapping up releases for "trailing" deliverables concerning the OpenStack 2025.2 "Flamingo" release. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee merged a couple of resolutions [2]. The first of these concerned Special Interest Groups in OpenStack [3]. You're probably aware that we began auditing and cleaning up stale information with respect to SIGs. We captured that work in a resolution to formalize the governance update, as governance of the SIGs has evolved over the past few years and some things needed clarification. The second resolution was about the retroactive steps we've taken to advertise the continued maintenance of os-net-config outside of the OpenStack community. We're glad to see the current maintainers taking the steps highlighted in the resolution, and would like to use these artifacts to inform users of the current state of the project. Finally, we made major progress on the retirement of the Monasca project. All deliverables for the project were marked retired in the past week, and we'll proceed with cleaning up references in our documentation and elsewhere. The TC would welcome the development and maintenance of the Monasca project outside of OpenStack, since we discovered users and their use cases while we were mulling this retirement. Eventually, the decision stemmed from the lack of interest to meet the standards of maintenance and release delivery within the OpenStack community. We are looking for volunteers to serve as election officials [4] for the TC and PTL elections that will be held in the next year. If you're interested in serving, please let me know, or chime in on OFTC's #openstack-election channel. The TC and the community would be grateful for your service! === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack TC was held on November 25th, 2025 in OFTC's #openstack-tc IRC channel [5]. We discussed the resolution on the os-net-config handover, and no objections were raised against completing the process. We also addressed the concerns regarding our current FIPS compliance goal. Our plan is to return the goal to a "proposed" state while the team redefines testing requirements and identifies resources to commit to the goal. We also discussed the changes needed in our documentation to preserve PTL appointment history even as projects transition between governance models. We noted that the Monasca cleanup was nearing completion with adjustments made to validation scripts to ignore legacy license files. Work continues on removing passlib from global requirements in tangential support of the Post-Quantum Cryptography initiative [6]. We addressed an impasse regarding tracking metrics (using Google Analytics) in OpenStack Manuals [7], deciding to merge pending changes now and treat the removal of tracking code as a separate, subsequent task if necessary. Finally, we discussed the Python Project Testing Interface (PTI) in the context of pytest usage for Horizon plugins [8]. The consensus was that while consistency is important, pytest is acceptable if it supports key requirements like parallel execution and generating standard subunit output, and the PTI documentation may need updates to reflect valid use cases beyond stestr. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 1700 UTC. This meeting will be hosted on the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC. Please find the meeting's agenda on its wiki page [9]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - [resolution] Retire governance-sigs repository | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/966645 - Retire Monasca project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - Ignore monasca repos for legacy validation | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/968268 ==== Open For Review ==== - Show SIG repositories on the SIGs page | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/967425 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-12-04: 2025.2 release deadline for "cycle-trailing" projects - 2025-12-09: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2026-01-08: 2026.1 Milestone 2 Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html [2] OpenStack TC Resolutions: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions [3] SIGs in OpenStack: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/sigs/ [4] OpenStack Election Officiating: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#election-officials [5] TC Meeting IRC Log, Nov 25 2025: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-11-25-17.00.html [6] Supporting PQC in OpenStack: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [7] Google Analytics in OpenStack Manuals: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-manuals/+/905614 [8] pytest in the PTI: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [9] TC Meeting Agenda, Dec 2 2025: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting