Hello Stackers, We're thirteen weeks away from the coordinated release of OpenStack 2025.2 "Flamingo" [1]. This Thursday marks Milestone-2 of the release cycle. This is a bug-targeting milestone for OpenStack project teams, as well as a checkpoint for the OpenStack Release Management team to line up deliverables that will be part of the coordinated release at the end of this development cycle. Currently, the number of deliverables to be released has only changed slightly from the OpenStack 2025.1 release. No significant deliverables have been deprecated or removed. In the past week, the OpenStack Technical Committee did not make any new governance changes; however, several proposals are under the community's review. Most significantly, today (2025-06-30) marks the end of the OpenStack Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The CLA was adopted in July 2010 (do you feel old yet?) [2], and thousands of contributors have signed it. However, for over a decade, we've felt encumbered by how it was arcane, perceived to be more permissive than Apache v2 and caused friction with individuals and organizations. We believe it has limited contributor involvement. Today, we join several other open source projects in requiring the "Developer Certificate of Origin" as a way to sign off your contributions. As we close the lid on the CLA regime, you'll need to "git commit -s" each of your contributions from 2025-07-01 to adhere to the DCO [3][4]. We do anticipate hiccups and request your cooperation in ironing out any issues in the code review system and contributor tooling during this transition. If you notice something broken, please chime in on this mailing list or on OFTC's #opendev channel. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee was held on 2025-06-24 [5]. The meeting was well attended and covered several topics. The proposal to mark the Cyborg project as inactive [6] was withdrawn after critical CI fixes were merged. While activity has resumed for this cycle, there are concerns about the project’s long-term maintenance, particularly in light of future OpenStack-wide changes like eventlet removal and dependency updates. It was opined that Cyborg is not "feature complete" and must stay responsive to ongoing ecosystem changes, even if its core functionality appears stable. The upcoming cycle's elections will serve as a checkpoint to reassess the project’s trajectory and whether new maintainers need onboarding. We then discussed the timeline of the ongoing effort to phase out eventlet. A new governance patch [7] proposes a timeline that aligns with operator and distro expectations, especially in light of Python 3.13 adoption. Python 3.12 will continue to be a fallback for some time, but when supporting Python 3.13, we hope not to depend on eventlet across the board. The TC emphasized that continued discussion on the Gerrit change is necessary to finalize acceptable timelines. The next major topic concerned setuptools changes that will impact PBR (Python Build Reasonableness). Setuptools will remove "ScriptWriter" and "pkg_resources" by October 31, 2025. These removals break current functionality in PBR and could jeopardize CI and release workflows. A critical bug was reported against PBR by maintainers of setuptools [8]. The TC discussed options ranging from vendoring replacements to rewriting PBR logic or adopting upstream tools despite performance tradeoffs. A key concern is that PBR’s CI is currently broken and must be fixed before any meaningful changes can be implemented. We'd like to seek a volunteer to resolve this issue. Please chime in on OFTC's #openstack-tc or #openstack-oslo if you're keen to help with this. In closing, we discussed the OpenInfra Summit 2025 CFP for Forum Sessions and Project Updates. CFP submissions must be made before 23:45 PST on 2025-07-08 [9]. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee will be held on 2025-07-01 at 1700 UTC. This meeting will be hosted simultaneously over Meetpad and IRC. You're welcome to join whichever platform you prefer. The Meetpad session will be recorded, and the recording will be shared on the TC's YouTube channel [10]. Please find the agenda and joining information on the meeting's wiki page [11]. I hope you'll be able to join us there. === Governance Proposals === ==== Open for review ==== - Add service-types-authority to SDK deliverables | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953548 - Deprecate shade, os-client-config | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953549 - Remove Monasca from active project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - Make Eventlet removal deadlines more acceptable for operators | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-07-03: OpenStack's 15th Birthday, Colombia User Group: https://www.meetup.com/colombia-openinfra-user-group/events/308383244 - 2025-07-08: OpenInfra Board meeting: https://board.openinfra.org/ - 2025-07-19: OpenInfra Days, Indonesia: https://2025.openinfra.id/ Thank you very much for reading! On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr) OpenStack TC Chair [1] 2025.2 "Flamingo" Release Schedule: https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html [2] OpenStack and its CLA: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackAndItsCLA [3] OpenStack will replace CLA with DCO: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20250520-replace-the-cla-wit... [4] OpenStack Contributor Guide to DCO: https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/dco.html [5] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-06-24: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-06-24-17.00.html [6] Cyborg will not be marked inactive: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952798 [7] Timeline changes for the Eventlet Removal goal: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 [8] PBR setuptools incompatibility: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbr/+bug/2107732 [9] CFP for OpenInfra Summit 2025: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/cfp/ [10] OpenStack TC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@openstack-tc [11] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-07-01: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting