Hello Stackers,

We're 18 weeks away from the 2024.2 (Dalmatian) release [1]. The Call for Proposals for the upcoming Open Infra Summit is still open [2], but it will close in a couple of days (May 29th, 2024). If you're planning to attend, I encourage you to submit a talk!

In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee continued its spring cleaning exercise – this time, the party was on PyPi. We also identified dates for the TC and PTL elections for the 2025.1 ("E") release cycle [3]. The nomination period for the TC and PTL elections will begin on 2024-08-14 at 23:45 UTC and will conclude on 2024-08-28 at 23:45 UTC. The elections will be held between 23:45 UTC on 2024-09-04 and 23:45 UTC on 2024-09-18.

=== Weekly Meeting ===

We identified 207 maintainers for removal across 146 PyPi packages [4]. The cleanup task is large and manual due to a lack of API. We've also identified packages where "openstackci" cannot remove maintainers due to a lack of ownership. This is likely a long-drawn effort. I'll keep you posted as we make progress. We had a few remaining project updates pending from the last release cycle, and one of them concerned the OpenStack Charms team. Since the TC didn't have context on the health of the team and its plans, we decided to gather some information on this mailing list. We're also excited to publish the first draft for the next election dates/process, courtesy of our Election Official, Ian Y. Choi (ianychoi). This election will be socialized with early and periodic notifications to address concerns expressed regarding the lack of visibility and poor voter turnout in past elections. This meeting, like all of our IRC meetings, was logged to eavesdrop [5].

Our next weekly IRC meeting is tomorrow! The agenda is pretty light [6], likely owing to the fact that a few TC members are returning from a long weekend holiday.

=== Governance Proposals ===

==== Merged ====

Retire devstack-gate | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/919629

==== Open for review/discussion ==== Appoint ChunYang Wu as PTL of Trove | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920462 Clarify the project retirement vs. project's repository retirement | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/919984 Simplifying house rules for project updates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/920318 Update to include docs and miscellaneous repos for AC status | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/915021 Add DPL model & liaison reset policy | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/916833

Thank you very much for reading!

On behalf of the OpenStack TC,

Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair

[1] https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html [2] https://2024.openinfraasia.org/ [3] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/election/+/920092 [4] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack-pypi-maintainers-cleanup#L52 [5] https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2024/tc.2024-05-21-18.00.log.html [6] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting