Network/Meetings

The OpenStack Networking Team (Neutron) holds public meetings as advertised on OpenStack IRC Meetings Calendar. If you are unable to attend, please check the most recent logs.

Ping list: bcafarel, elvira, frickler, mlavalle, mtomaska, obondarev, slaweq, tobias-urdin, ykarel, lajoskatona, jlibosva, averdagu, haleyb, ralonsoh, sahid

Old items
- Ironic email
  - https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/5SX35AQZ65G6HWQ7WARLJTJK3ASAOWNU/
  - We discussed this in the Drivers meeting
    - https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/neutron_drivers/2024/neutron_drivers.2024-04-26-14.01.log.html
    - Miguel will be point person
    - If there is any impact or changes required in neutron it will be communicated
    - Left open possibility of a new library, but need more investigation

Permanent links:
- OpenInfra Live event - https://openinfra.dev/live/#all-episodes - there are some interesting presentations there, maybe You would be interested in some of them

Bugs and Gate issues

Report from sahid:
- https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/WYDAWQVUJ72I6PS26H5YGESBBMN3VSLW/

Bugs without assignee or to be commented:
- See report

This week lajoskatona is the bug deputy, next week will be ykarel

Current bug count this week: 753, down 22 from last week
- All neutron bugs

Bug squash etherpad - contains old bugs that need to be closed
- https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/dalmatian-neutron-bug-squash
- (haleyb) refreshed on December 2nd

More discussion on this topic takes place during the Neutron CI meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronCI

Bug deputy

You can find more information about what the role is here: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html#neutron-bug-deputy. During the Denver PTG we made the decision to institute a fixed rotation for the the bugs deputy role. The currently scheduled rotation is the following:

Date	who	note
2025-4-14	Lajos Katona (lajoskatona)
2025-4-21	Yatin Karel (ykarel)
2025-4-28	Terry Wilson (otherwiseguy)
2025-5-5	Miro Tomaska (mtomaska)
2025-5-12	Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel)
2025-5-19	Elvira García Ruiz (elvira)
2025-5-26	Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq)
2025-6-2	Brian Haley (haleyb)
2025-6-9	Bence Romsics (rubasov)
2025-6-16	Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle)
2025-6-23	Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva)
2025-6-30	Oleg Bondarev (obondarev)
2025-7-07	Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh)
2025-7-14	Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui (sahid)

In preparation for their duty week, deputies are encouraged to review the Neutron bugs policy: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/contributor/policies/bugs.html

ryu os-ken

To move os-ken from https://storyboard.openstack.org/ to launchpad.
- (former) Story board to track ryu backports: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2009283

Active os-ken patches: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack/os-ken+status:open

New patches in ryu:

Specs

Community Goals

Last TC meeting summary:
- https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/tc/2025/tc.2025-04-01-17.00.log.html

Current Selected (Active) Goals:
- Neutron client deprecation
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1999774
  - Agenda: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/python-neutronclient_deprecation
  - Active patches to review:
    - https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/1999774%22
- Eventlet removal
  - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585
  - And related proposal to have oslo.service use cotyledon and futurist to replace eventlet
    - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/oslo-specs/+/922597
  - https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2069581%22 (ralonsoh)
  - This is a list of bugs Rodolfo created for this goal, please take and work on one if possible:
    - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bugs?field.tag=eventlet-deprecation
  - os-ken migration:
    - https://opendev.org/openstack/os-ken/src/branch/master/os_ken/lib/hub.py
    - alternative: bring back ofctl
- WSGI migration
  - See replies to this thread for more information, for example, switching to ASGI
    - https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/message/EBV4PAMFUZCL72KC2HP7W4P47L6RYU2H/

Past Goals:
- Add support for the service role in neutron API policies
  - Service role implementation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2026182
    - Patches complete, Slawek to follow-up with Gmann about integrated testing for it all
- Add support for the manager role in neutron API policies
  - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/923578
    - Patches complete

Neutron-lib, planned refactoring and other impacts

Started python type annotation in neutron (discussed in last PTG)
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/929864/
- Other patches in series
Type annotation on neutron-lib
- https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22type_tooling%22

On Demand Agenda

We can only pick one or two topics we can talk about in the time left of the meeting. People should add ideas to the topics section. We will select one or two topics we can discuss during the next meeting. Please follow the template below:

April 14th:
- (ralonsoh): https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2106463. Two approaches:
  - To revert what is implemented and create a DB constraint, but changing how we store the phys net (enforcing always a value): https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/947898/7/neutron/db/migration/alembic_migrations/versions/2025.1/expand/b1bca967e19d_add_unique_network_segment_range.py
  - Make a WSGI friendly change: (1) enforce the initialization only in 1st worker and (2) wrapping the whole initialization method inside a DB write context: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/948200

Previous meeting logs

Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.