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July 05, 2025

Stackers Network Digest — July 05, 2025

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The Big Picture

Two structural changes bracketed the week. On June 30, the OpenStack Contributor License Agreement (CLA) ended its 15-year run as Jeremy Stanley merged the Gerrit change switching the project to Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) enforcement — every new push from July 1 needs a Signed-off-by trailer. And OpenInfra Foundation members got a hard July 19 deadline to renew their individual membership under the new Linux Foundation integration, or lose voting rights in the 2026 board election. Meanwhile the TC's R-13 summary confirmed Milestone-2 had arrived for the 2025.2 "Flamingo" cycle, with the deliverable list essentially stable.

Releases & Announcements

Thierry Carrez posted the R-12 release countdown reminding teams that feature work is now the development focus. Goutham Pacha Ravi's TC R-13 summary noted Cyborg's "mark as inactive" proposal was withdrawn after critical CI fixes merged, though long-term maintenance concerns remain. Several governance changes are open for review including the Eventlet-removal timeline relaxation and a proposal to require declaration of affiliation from TC candidates.

Thierry separately flagged several deliverables defined in governance but never released: Cinder's rbd-iscsi-client (added Jan 2021), Glance's os-test-images (July 2024), Barbican's barbican-ui (Oct 2019), and Telemetry's recently-added aetos and grian-ui. Project teams need to decide which to release in Flamingo and which to drop from governance.

Takashi Kajinami confirmed removal of standalone Heat API services (heat-api and heat-cfn-api) — with no objections raised, deprecation will be announced via a 2025.1 backport and the services dropped during Flamingo.

Development & Technical Decisions

Wes Wilson's membership renewal notice was the loudest action item: renew here by July 19, 2025. The 180-day eligibility rule is firm — miss it and you cannot vote in the 2026 Individual Governing Board election. The Foundation has streamlined this to a one-click process for existing members.

On the CI/library front, Takashi Kajinami diagnosed the oslo.utils gate breakage as a downstream Ubuntu novnc packaging problem (bug 2113882) pulling older oslo libraries into system Python. He proposed globally switching devstack to source novnc installation rather than patching every oslo library job.

Operators surfaced concrete Cinder, Nova and Neutron pain. Yuta Kambe (Fujitsu) reopened the question of Cinder retypes between Ceph backends causing zero-fill bloat — copying an empty 10 GB volume from ceph-hdd to ceph-ssd consumed 10 GB of real space. The thread asks whether Cinder could use rbd cp (or otherwise preserve sparseness) for backend-to-backend retypes. Karl Kloppenborg reported a post-Epoxy regression where Ubuntu cloud images fail DHCP at boot while Cirros/Debian/Fedora work fine on the same hosts. Anthony Galica revisited the older Cinder rescan-on-attach issue — num_volume_device_scan_tries fixed image-from-volume flows, but VM attach still fails. Maximilian Stinsky-Damke chased a Neutron/OVN+Octavia bug where loadbalancer failovers can leave the VIP port's virtual-parents referencing the wrong amphora, breaking FIP announcement via ovn-bgp-agent; manually re-setting the allowed address pair restores it. And Michael Still reported nova-ovs-hybrid-plug CI jobs failing because of a hard-coded endpoint at 200.225.47.11 going unreachable.

Pierre Riteau opened a useful question about Horizon's OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_DOMAIN_DROPDOWN: if the listed domains are publicly documented anyway, what's the residual security concern that justifies the documentation warning? Greg Waines asked for status on the long-approved Keystone external-OAuth2 grant spec.

Heads Up / Action Needed

  • DCO is live. Add -s to your git commit (or git commit --amend -s) starting July 1 — Gerrit will reject pushes missing Signed-off-by. See the contributor docs.
  • Renew OpenInfra membership by July 19 to keep 2026 Board voting eligibility: openinfra.org/a/renew-membership.
  • Heat operators: plan for heat-api/heat-cfn-api removal during Flamingo.
  • Project teams (cinder, glance, telemetry, barbican): confirm release plans for governance-declared but unreleased deliverables.

Community & Events

Ildiko Vancsa recapped the June 27 Ops Radio Hour (OVS→OVN and LXB→OVN migration paths, RabbitMQ upgrades, QoS, VMware migration; recording) and previewed the July 25 session on Swift compliance, GPUs, VMware migration and vTPM live-migration. The group is consolidating chat on Matrix. The Public Cloud SIG met July 2, and Nguyễn Hữu Khôi shared a "Cloud System Overview" diagram of the open-source tooling around his OpenStack environment as a starter reference for newcomers.