Hello Stackers, We're a month away from the feature freeze date for the 2025.2 ("Flamingo") release cycle [1], scheduled for 2025-08-28. OpenStack project teams are observing various internal deadlines prior to that important date to ensure a complete and timely release. As we look ahead, OpenStack's election officials will begin accepting self-nominations for the upcoming Project Team Lead roles and four seats on the OpenStack Technical Committee starting 2025-08-06 [2]. The nomination deadline is two weeks later, on 2025-08-20. You are welcome to submit an early nomination [3] now if you anticipate being away during the nomination window. To be a Project Team Lead candidate, you must be an Active Project Contributor—i.e., someone who has contributed to the project you wish to lead in the past 12 months (counted up to 2025-08-20). Any individual member of the OpenInfra Foundation, regardless of contributor status, may propose their candidacy for the OpenStack Technical Committee. To vote in these elections, you must be a member of the OpenInfra Foundation [4] and an active contributor—either through merged contributions to official projects or via nomination by a project’s PTL, liaisons, any Special Interest Group, or the OpenStack Technical Committee [5]. To receive your ballot, please ensure your email address is added in Gerrit and that you've opted in to receive emails from CIVS before 2025-08-20: https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl In the past week, the TC approved revised milestones for the cross-project goal of removing the use of Eventlet [6]. We still aim to drop Eventlet usage completely in the 2027.2 ("J") release. The "aetos" project now has a canonical service type called "metric-storage" [7]. Several other governance changes are currently under community review. === Weekly Meeting === The last weekly meeting of the OpenStack TC took place [8] on 2025-07-22, with a smaller attendance than usual. We expect this trend to continue through the summer break in the northern hemisphere. Key updates included changes to the Eventlet-removal goal timeline and a deeper look into the prolonged inactivity of the Monasca project team. While volunteers have consistently expressed interest in maintaining the project, it hasn’t met reactivation milestones since its last active cycle (2024.1). However, some improvements have been merged across the team’s repositories. The TC agreed to enforce a more formal and transparent process: projects must explicitly request extensions to inactive status [9], and future documentation will include retirement deadlines that compel TC votes on any extensions. We'll continue discussing the next steps for Monasca through governance proposals and this mailing list. Opendev administrators informed us that they completed the transition off Nodepool, and Debian Trixie images are nearly ready for testing. This is also useful for transitioning the Ceph CI job to Debian to enable faster fixes in the client software. In open discussion, the group revisited the definition of corporate affiliation in the TC charter. A proposal will be made to clarify what affiliation diversity means and how/why it should be disclosed during elections. The next meeting of the OpenStack Technical Committee is today, 2025-07-29. It will be hosted on the #openstack-tc channel on OFTC at 1700 UTC. Please find the meeting's agenda and other details on its wiki page [10]. I hope you'll be able to join us. === Governance Proposals === === Merged === - Make Eventlet removal deadlines more acceptable for operators | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/952903 - Retire networking-midonet | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/955364 === Open for review === - Define "affiliation" within the context of the TC | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/956024 - Add series names to runtimes doc | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/955810 - Remove Monasca from active project | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/953671 - os-test-images never releases | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/954249 - Require declaration of affiliation from TC Candidates | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/949432 === Upcoming Events === - 2025-08-06: Nominations open for OpenStack elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ - 2025-08-20: Nominations close for OpenStack elections - 2025-08-26: OpenInfra Days, Korea: https://2025.openinfradays.kr/ - 2025-08-28: Feature Freeze deadline, Milestone-3 of the Flamingo release [1] - 2025-08-29: Colombia OpenInfra User Group Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/colombia-openinfra-user-group/events/307096751/ - 2025-10-17: OpenInfra Summit, Paris-Saclay: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/ 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] 2026.1 OpenStack Elections: https://governance.openstack.org/election/ [3] Submitting your candidacy: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-a-candidacy [4] Join the OpenInfra Foundation: https://openinfra.org/join/individual/ [5] Who is an Active Contributor: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/charter.html#voters-for-tc-sea... [6] Eventlet removal timeline: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/remove-eventlet.html#comp... [7] OpenStack service types: https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/service-types-authority/#service-data [8] TC Meeting IRC Log 2025-07-22: https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-07-22-17.00.html [9] Emerging and inactive projects: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/emerging-technology-and-inacti... [10] TC Meeting Agenda, 2025-07-29: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/TechnicalCommittee#Next_Meeting