Revision as of 13:10, 3 November 2025

Weekly Nova team meeting

Regular MEETING TIME: Mondays 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:

• November 03 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-11-03T16:00:00)
• November 10 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-11-10T16:00:00)
• November 17 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-11-17T16:00:00)
• November 24 2025 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2025-11-24T16:00:00)

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/gazpacho/schedule.html
  • #info Flamingo released last week.
  • #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.
  • #info Take care EU daylight time change this Sunday (26 Oct).
  • #info PTG meetings (to be confirmed) will happen room grizzly 14:00UTC (start) -> 17:00UTC (end) 4H from Tuesday to Friday.
  • #info Please enter your review comments (what was ok, what is not working...)
  • #info Please update the courtesy ping list, if you want me to notify you about a particular topic.
  • #info You might have a earlier session next week for our contributors from Japan (compute graceful shutdown)

• #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 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
  • #info final stable 2024.1 Caracal release (and all other stable/202*.* release patches) are proposed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/964471
  • #info 2024.1 Caracal (stable/2024.1) is planed to move to Unmaintained in less than a week

• #topic vmwareapi 3rd-party CI efforts Highlights

• #topic Gibi's news about eventlet removal
  • nova-sch, -api, -metadata is now proposed to be switched to native threading by default as agreed on the PTG. Patch series https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/965924
  • nova-compute can boot VMs now in native threading mode with https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/965467/3 . Libvirt event handling does not work yet so live migration and device attach is failing.

• #topic Open discussion
  • (Uggla) Pool for the new schedule of upstream meeting: https://framadate.org/ao12zK6wR3K3nfbF
  • #linkAnnonce : https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/H5PBFZJ4X3TSGSC4YF6E4WTV43CBOVS6/
  • (r-taketn) Could you please review the attached spec and provide your comments?
    • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/962578
    • I have proposed a new feature aimed at generalizing the existing SEV/SEV-ES code to incorporate confidential computing support for other architectures.
    • I have also detailed the problem description of the current codebase in the spec.

• #topic Bug scrubbing
  • #info up to 184 (-1 from previous week)
  • #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