The Big Picture

This was release week. After a full cycle of work, the community wrapped up final release candidates for 2025.2 "Flamingo," OpenStack's 32nd release, scheduled to land October 1. The TC was simultaneously re-forming itself for the new term — filling chair and liaison roles — and making hard calls about leaderless projects. Underneath the release machinery, two structural threads kept building: the slow migration of translations off the dead Zanata platform, and the ongoing struggle to keep Skyline maintained.

Releases & Announcements

The TC's R+0 summary framed the moment well: Flamingo's coordinated release is October 1, and 2026.1 "Gazpacho" is a SLURP release, meaning major feature work runs alongside a deliberate push to pay down technical debt identified as Community Goals. Cycle-trailing projects now begin their work to support Flamingo, and the whole community heads into the October 27-31 virtual PTG to plan the new cycle. The TC itself was re-formed with returning members frickler, bauzas, and cardoe plus newcomer tonyb, and is now filling TC chair, vice-chair, and liaison roles (including the OpenStack VMT). The retirement of the legacy shade client library was approved — its functionality has long lived in openstacksdk.

Allison Price lined up the OpenInfra Live episode on Flamingo for October 2 at 1400 UTC, with a strong panel: Goutham Pacha Ravi (TC), Iury Gregory (Ironic), Rene Ribaud (Nova), Carlos Silva (Manila), and Brian Haley (Neutron). She'd earlier put out a call for more presenters, underscoring how thin volunteer bandwidth runs even for marquee events.

Development & Technical Decisions

Leaderless projects are reaching decision points. Goutham Pacha Ravi bumped the threads seeking PTL volunteers for Venus and Vitrage, both now formally proposed to be marked "inactive" (governance reviews 963228 and 963227). Marking a team inactive means no regular releases are tagged for 2026.1, and if the team stays inactive through that cycle, deliverables get retired per the dropping-projects guidelines. For OpenStack Charms, Felipe Reyes submitted the patch appointing himself PTL, resolving that team's gap. Monasca's retirement remains in limbo pending a possible new maintainer. The clear message to operators and contributors: if you depend on Venus or Vitrage, now is the time to step up.

Skyline's maintenance crunch intensified. Following the prior week, Reet Srivastava self-nominated as a core reviewer, citing three months of contributions (configurable default domain, a Barbican/Key-Manager panel, an unrescue action). Goutham Pacha Ravi's measured reply welcomed the rare self-nomination but noted it's up to existing maintainers, who have limited bandwidth — and suggested organizing a PTG discussion to gather interested contributors around the project's future. Doug Goldstein continued pushing to spread the workload off any single person or company.

The Zanata-to-Weblate translation migration is well underway. Seongsoo Cho gave the i18n team a detailed status: a long list of Horizon dashboards and plugins (horizon, ironic-ui, magnum-ui, manila-ui, octavia-dashboard, designate-dashboard, and more) have already migrated to Weblate, with new Zuul jobs being added to replicate the old Zanata workflow. The work is master-branch-only for now, covering source strings and release notes, with documentation and stable-branch support still to come. Zanata is no longer maintained, so this matters for the long-term health of OpenStack localization.

Operator-facing technical questions stayed lively: Sean Mooney confirmed a merged Nova fix (review 952306, shipping in 2025.2) so qemu releases freed guest memory, plus the ability to fully disable the memballoon device, recommending mem_stats_period_seconds=0 for realtime hosts. Arnaud Morin dug into why oslo.messaging port notifications aren't broadcast to multiple consumers — topic queues enforce message uniqueness, and getting all three daemons the same event would require fanout queues or streams, which he believes isn't currently doable without code work. Thomas Goirand reported Flamingo Debian packages are built and tempest-validated in Unstable (via the osbpo backport repo for Trixie), with Ironic and Mistral still pending.

Heads Up / Action Needed

• Flamingo lands October 1. Once it ships, the openstack/releases repo reopens for Gazpacho and freezes lift; stable/2025.2 becomes a normal stable branch.
• Venus and Vitrage need maintainers now to avoid inactive status and eventual retirement in 2026.1.
• PTG topic-seeding is open across many etherpads; teams should propose cross-project sessions early.

Community & Events

Thierry Carrez proposed a PTG discussion (Friday Oct 31, 16 UTC) to refactor OpenStack's fragmented ops-facing activities — Ops Radio Hour, the Large Scale SIG, Public Cloud SIG, and Scientific SIG all overlap and struggle for volunteers — under a single, more discoverable banner. The TC published an elections retrospective: only 78 of 173 eligible voters cast ballots despite 650+ active contributors, with the gap traced to OIF individual-membership renewal lapses, CIVS opt-in confusion, and general inbox noise. Jeremy Stanley reminded teams to book Open Source Pavilion booth time at the upcoming OpenInfra Summit. Riccardo Pittau organized an Ironic community dinner in Paris on the Summit's first night.