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, slaweq, tobias-urdin, ykarel, lajoskatona, jlibosva, averdagu, haleyb, ralonsoh, sahid

Flamingo/2025.2 cycle schedule
- https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
- We are currently in Week R-2
- We just passed the RC1 milestone the week of September 12th, so RC1 is tagged
  - Reminder: Release blockers will need to be merged to master, then cherry-picked to stable/2025.2
- Final 2025.2 Flamingo release: October 3rd, 2025

Gazpacho/2026.1 cycle schedule
- PTG
  - https://openinfra.org/ptg/
  - The next OpenInfra PTG will take place October 27-31, 2025 and registration for the event is now open
    - https://ptg.openinfra.dev/
  - Please see etherpad for discussion notes
    - TBD
- Proposed release schedule
  - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/954614
- Master branch is open for 2026.1 changes

Reminder: If you have a topic for the drivers meeting on Friday, please add it to the wiki @ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronDrivers

Let's continue to use the priorities dashboard for patches in the "ready to merge" state. This could be older changes as well as new ones
- Neutron Priority Dashboard
- For tap-as-a-service I can't set priority: https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2015471%22+status:open

Past cycle PTG links
- Flamingo/2025.2 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2025-ptg-neutron
- Epoxy/2025.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2024-ptg-neutron
- Dalmatian/2024.2 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2024-ptg-neutron
- Caracal/2024.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-neutron

2023.1 (Antelope)/Zed/Yoga/Xena/Wallaby/Victoria have transitioned to Unmaintained
- https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/V7H6M5ANYOMFWSZ5BJSWAXVNQCUXI6D7/

2023.2 (Bobcat)/Ussuri/Train have transitioned to EOL
- https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bobcat-stable%22
- https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/UJ7Y76LRWTZQSSDAGMPWCCVVGGIX3TOG/

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 people are interested in some of them

Bugs and Gate issues

Report from haleyb:
- https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/FYDKFH4TEUUJBFSLLCBVGD4TRSSYUFBY/

Bugs without assignee or to be commented:
- See report

This week rubasov is the bug deputy, next week will be mlavalle

Current bug count this week: 781, up 4 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
2025-9-15	Bence Romsics (rubasov)
2025-9-22	Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle)
2025-9-29	Lajos Katona (lajoskatona)
2025-10-6	Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh)
2025-10-13	Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui (sahid)
2025-10-20	Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva)
2025-10-27	Yatin Karel (ykarel)
2025-11-3	Terry Wilson (otherwiseguy)
2025-11-10	Miro Tomaska (mtomaska)
2025-11-17	Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel)
2025-11-24	Elvira García Ruiz (elvira)
2025-12-1	Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq)
2025-12-8	Brian Haley (haleyb)

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.2025-07-29-17.00.log.html

Current Selected (Active) Goals:
- Neutron client deprecation
- Eventlet removal
  - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585 - DONE
  - https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bug/2069581%22 (ralonsoh) - DONE
  - https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22eventlet-removal%22+project:openstack/neutron+status:open
  - https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%2522bug/2087939%2522+status:open (sahid - OVS)
  - This is a list of open bugs Rodolfo created for this goal:
    - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bugs?field.tag=eventlet-deprecation - DONE
  - 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 - DONE

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:

September 16:
- (jlibosva): OVN agent functional tests running with separate ovsdb-server process or not? - https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/960892
- (ralonsoh). Add extension "router-enable-snat" (https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-lib/+/961612)

Previous meeting logs

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