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The Big Picture

This week's discussion was dominated by long-arc questions about what OpenStack should keep supporting and how it invests in its people. Takashi Kajinami opened a community-wide conversation about ending PostgreSQL support, the TC formally moved the cursive library under Oslo and chartered a new Contributor Experience Working Group, and Allison Price kicked off the annual User Survey revision cycle. Meanwhile, the 2026.2 "Hibiscus" release is now eleven weeks out, and the electoral machinery for TC and PTL seats is beginning to spin up.

Releases & Announcements

• 2026.2 "Hibiscus" is 11 weeks away, and the community has chosen "Indri" as the name for the following 2027.1 release, per Goutham Pacha Ravi's TC weekly summary.
• cursive is now an Oslo library. The TC approved the move from x/cursive to openstack/cursive, OpenDev completed the repo migration, and modernization patches are already in flight. Takashi is asking Barbican reviewers for urgent attention on a barbican-tempest-plugin job update that is blocking the rest of the work, plus consumer updates for Glance and Nova.

Development & Technical Decisions

Should OpenStack drop PostgreSQL? Takashi Kajinami started an all-projects thread noting that since Neutron removed its PostgreSQL support in 2025.1, Postgres is already unusable as a single backend for a full OpenStack deployment. Compounding this, SQLAlchemy 2.1 switches the default Postgres dialect from psycopg2 to psycopg3, which oslo.db has already surfaced in testing. Operators still using Postgres for individual services should weigh in — this is the moment to signal need before wider removal is on the table.

Barbican UI revival. During the July 7 TC meeting, Douglas Mendizábal explained that barbican-ui stalled because Barbican cores lack frontend review capacity. The TC agreed a separate barbican-ui-core team is a reasonable path, and noonedeadpunk will restart the discussion on-list to loop in Horizon.

Neutron bug triage (July 6–12): 9 new bugs, 1 High — a firewall functional-test failure on recent CentOS 10 Stream kernels — plus in-progress work on a quota reservation under-counting bug and an interesting experiment introducing agentic AI workflows for Neutron development (code-review, bug-triage, and commit-message agents).

Operator questions worth flagging: an OVN DVR user reported floating IPs breaking after a power cycle, with SNAT taking over from dnat_and_snat rules; a Kolla operator asked whether OVS containers can be left untouched during an Antelope→Caracal upgrade to avoid dataplane disruption; and a Manila user asked whether share types are meant to be vendor-neutral when vendor-specific extra specs cause CapabilitiesFilter to exclude other backends. On Cinder NVMe-FC, Rajat Dhasmana noted the Dell-led effort has stalled but working patches exist in os-brick and Cinder — an opportunity for someone to pick it up.

Heads Up / Action Needed

• User Survey edits due Monday, August 24. Allison Price and Amy Marrich have published the full question set for review. Projects with custom questions (Barbican, Cinder, Designate, Glance, Heat, Interop, Ironic, Keystone, Kolla, Manila, Neutron, Nova, Octavia, RefStack, Sahara, Self-Healing SIG, Swift, Telemetry, TripleO, Trove, I18n) each get up to three questions — PTLs should review before the deadline.
• TC/PTL election nominations open August 3. Four TC seats are up. Jens Harbott (frickler) has proposed a charter change to recognize core reviewers as Active Contributors, which would expand the electorate; review before the tooling window closes.
• Refresh project security liaisons. The VMT needs accurate PTL/DPL security contacts; governance patches to formalize this are in flight, but PTLs should update entries now regardless.
• PostgreSQL users: speak up now if you rely on it for any service — see the thread above.
• OpenInfra Summit Asia (Shanghai) volunteers are wanted to staff the shared OpenInfra project table; Jeremy Stanley is coordinating via a sign-up sheet for the KubeCon + OpenInfra Summit Asia event.
• Cinder Festival of Reviews ran Friday July 17, 1400–1600 UTC — etherpad here for the running list. The Cinder IRC meeting on July 15 was cancelled.

Community & Events

• Contributor Experience Working Group. The TC is voting to establish a CEWG under governance as the permanent home for the "Bridging the Gap" work: contributor recognition (including reviving Extra-AC), community-health metrics, and onboarding (absorbing the dormant First Contact SIG). It will be a TC working group rather than a SIG, because some tasks — like reforming the AC process — need delegated TC authority. Sign up on the wiki; membership is open beyond the TC.
• Proposed RISC-V SIG. Goutham Pacha Ravi floated a SIG to accelerate RISC-V adoption in OpenInfra; details are thin in the initial post — watch for follow-ups.
• Gerrit User Summit will be held November 9–10 in Sunnyvale, CA. The CFP is open at gus26.gerritforge.com, per Amy Marrich.
• Public Cloud SIG meets bi-weekly; the next session is July 29, 07:05–08:55 UTC, on meetpad.