Revision as of 08:13, 19 January 2026

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 2026.1 Gazpacho schedule https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html
  • #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
  • 2024.1 Caracal (SLURP) is Unmaintained (branch: unmaintained/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:

• January 05 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-01-05T16:00:00)
• January 12 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-01-12T16:00:00)
• January 19 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-01-19T16:00:00)
• January 26 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-01-26T16:00:00)
• February 02 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-02-02T16:00:00)

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 Release Planning
  • #link https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html
  • #info Nova deadlines are set in the above schedule
  • #info 8 weeks before feature freeze
  • #info PTG etherpad for 2026.1 is available: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.1-ptg

• #topic Review priorities
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.1-status

• #topic OpenAPI
  • #link: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22openapi%22+(project:openstack/nova+OR+project:openstack/placement)+-status:merged+-status:abandoned
  • #info still 20 remaining atm. (-3)

• #topic Stable Branches
  • #info stable gates seem to be in good 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

• #topic Open discussion
  • (r-taketn) Review request for the SEV/SEV-ES refactoring codes
    • #link: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/generalize-sev-code
  • (womax) Potential future use of tempURL in nova

• #topic Bug scrubbing
  • #info up to 200
  • #link: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-bug-triage-roster
  • #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