Revision as of 10:56, 22 September 2025

Weekly Nova team meeting

Regular MEETING TIME: Tuesdays 16:00 UTC (#openstack-nova on OFTC)

This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on OpenStack Compute (Nova). We cover topics such as release planning and status, bugs, reviews, and other current topics worthy of real-time discussion.

Project Heartbeat

This information will be updated weekly but not mentioned in the meeting unless specifically called out on the agenda.

• #topic Release News
  • #link Nova 2025.2 Flamingo schedule https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2025.1 Epoxy schedule https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2024.2 Dalmatian schedule https://releases.openstack.org/dalmatian/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2024.1 Caracal schedule https://releases.openstack.org/caracal/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2023.2 Bobcat schedule https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2023.1 Antelope schedule https://releases.openstack.org/antelope/schedule.html

• #topic Stable branch status
  • #link stable/2025.2: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2025.2
  • #link stable/2025.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2025.1
  • #link stable/2024.2: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2024.2
  • #link stable/2024.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2024.1
  • 2023.2 Bobcat (non-SLURP) is End of Life (tag: bobcat-eol)
  • 2023.1 Antelope (SLURP) is Unmaintained (branch:unmaintained/2023.1)

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #link bug triage how-to: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage#Tags
  • #help need help with bug triage

• #topic Gate status
  • #link check queue gate status http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html
  • #link 3rd party CI status (not so dead) http://ciwatch.mmedvede.net/project?project=nova

• #topic Review status page
  • #link http://status.openstack.org/reviews/#nova
  • Count: 438 (+20); Top score: 2303 (+21) (last refresh was 09-03)
  • #help Pick a patch near the top, shepherd it to closure

Agenda for next meeting

Next meetings scheduled for:

• September 02 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-09-02T16:00:00)
• September 09 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-09-09T16:00:00)
• September 16 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-09-16T16:00:00)
• September 23 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-09-23T16:00:00)

Where you see "?" feel free to just edit the wiki and add your item.

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #info No Critical bug

• #topic Gate status
  • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=gate-failure Nova gate bugs
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-ci-failures-minimal
  • #link https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Fnova&project=openstack%2Fplacement&branch=stable%2F*&branch=master&pipeline=periodic-weekly&skip=0 Nova&Placement periodic jobs status
  • #info Please look at the gate failures and file a bug report with the gate-failure tag.
  • #info Please try to provide a meaningful comment when you recheck

• #topic tempest-with-latest-microversion job status
  • #link https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=tempest-with-latest-microversion&skip=0

• #topic Release Planning
  • #link https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
  • #info Nova deadlines are set in the above schedule
  • #info RC1 in progress.
  • #info PTG etherpad for 2026.1 is available: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.1-ptg
  • #info Please add the topics you would like to discuss in the above document.

• #topic OpenAPI
  • #link: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22openapi%22+(project:openstack/nova+OR+project:openstack/placement)+-status:merged+-status:abandoned
  • #info still 28 remaining atm.

• #topic Stable Branches
  • #info stable/2025.2 branches were cut for all repositories of nova
  • #info stable branches (stable/2025.* and stable/2024.*) seem to be in OK state
  • #info stable branch status / gate failures tracking etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-stable-branch-ci

• #topic vmwareapi 3rd-party CI efforts Highlights

• #topic Gibi's news about eventlet removal.
  • #link Gazpacho plans are collected in the PTG etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.1-ptg
  • #link We need a formal approval of the new BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/eventlet-removal-gazpacho
  • #link We are going to restart our weekly eventlet sync every Wednesday 16:30 CEST, 14:30 UTC (during the summer) on meet.google.com/bcy-uqoz-hje
  • There was some recent instability in nova-tox-py312-threading job that runs most of our unit test without eventlet. It is being fixed but if you see that this job fails while the normal unit test jobs are passing on a patch please let gibi know.
  • When can we land eventlet removal patches again on master? After final F RC? Or only after F release?

• #topic Open discussion
  • (r-taketn) About Arm CCA feature spec: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/960777

• #topic Bug scrubbing
  • #info up to 176
  • #link: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-bug-selection-for-triaging#L4
  • #link: https://truc.uggla.fr/ I kicked off this draft page to follow open bugs.

Sub-teams

There are also some Nova subteam meetings. See Nova#Nova_subteams for details.

Previous meetings

• All other meetings are here