Hello Stackers, We're 10 weeks away from the date of the coordinated release of OpenStack 2026.1 "Gazpacho" [1]. Now that we're past milestone-2 of this release cycle, project teams are actively reviewing implementation patches for specifications. The next project-wide deadline is the feature freeze (February 26, 2026), but please consult the release calendar to see project-specific deadlines in the interim. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee reprised a weekly meeting after a month and caught up on several ongoing governance concerns. The governance of the "keystoneauth" repository was moved from the Keystone project team to the OpenStackSDK project team where we think it will see better reviewer attention. Apart from that, there are several open governance proposals that are being reviewed by the community. === Weekly Meeting === The OpenStack TC met over IRC on January 13th 2026 on the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC to kick off the year by synchronizing on several high-level initiatives [2]. This includes the transition to the 2026.2 "Hibiscus" release cycle and aligning our technical efforts with the Foundation's upcoming marketing themes [3] and the "Next Level" board goals [4]. We also discussed the immediate sunsetting of Bitergia dashboards [5]. As we transition to LFX, the committee spoke about the importance of project metrics such as review participation and merge timelines. Programmatically graphing this sort of information needs context-awareness and the dashboards must not rely on inaccurate assumptions about contributors' email addresses, working hours or time zones. We reiterated a critical resource gap within the Ansible SIG. The openstack.cloud collection remains a dependency for official projects like OpenStack-Ansible and Kolla, yet it currently lacks sufficient review bandwidth; we are looking for volunteers to help sustain this deliverable. Finally, we discussed the effort to support AlmaLinux on non-v3 x86 processors to maximize hardware reuse; while we have immediate workarounds for DevStack, we are seeking a native OVN package build on this platform. The next meeting of the OpenStack TC is today, January 20th 2026 at 0800 UTC. Please note this earlier time; it accommodates our APAC colleagues. The meeting will be hosted on the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC and the agenda is available on the meeting's wiki page [6]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Merged ==== - Move keystoneauth under OpenStackSDK governance | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/971178 ==== Open For Review ==== - Revive os_freezer role for OSA | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/973364 - Revive os_watcher role for OSA | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/973385 - Remove rbd-iscsi-client from release management | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/972316 - Remove barbican-ui from release management | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/972315 - Move FIPS Compliance goal back to proposed | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/969145 === Upcoming Events === - 2026-01-27: OpenInfra Board Meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2026-01-31: FOSDEM 2026: https://www.meetup.com/brussels-openinfra-meetup-group/events/312867974 - 2026-02-26: 2026.1 "Gazpacho" Feature Freeze / Milestone 3 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] TC Meeting IRC Log, Jan 13 2026:https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2026/tc.2026-01-13-17.01.html [3] 2026 OpenStack Marketing and Messaging Priorities: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [4] Taking OpenStack to the Next Level in 2026: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [5] OpenStack Dashboards: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.... [6] TC Meeting Agenda, Jan 20 2026: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting