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, haleyb, ralonsoh
Contents
Announcements / Reminders
- Gazpacho/2026.1 cycle schedule
- https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html
- We are currently in Week R-2
- RC1 milestone was last week
- stable/2026.1 branch has been created
- Critical changes should be merged to master, then cherry-picked to stable/2026.1
- Since we had a couple, we will do an RC2 tag
- March 30 - April 03 Week R+0
- Release countdown email:
- PTL/TC 2026.2 election cycle
- Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Project Team Leads) and TC positions are closed and voting has started
- You will receive a voting link if you submitted patches to the two (2) projects with elections
- PTG
- Hibiscus PTG April 20-24, 2026
- PTG Website: https://openinfra.org/ptg/
- PTG Registration: https://ptg.openinfra.org/
- Neutron etherpad:
- Link to all etherpads
- 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
- Gazpacho/2026.1 PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2025-ptg-neutron
- 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
- 2024.1 (Caracal)/2023.1 (Antelope)/Zed/Yoga/Xena/Wallaby/Victoria have transitioned to Unmaintained
- Xena/Wallaby/Victoria are transitioning to EOL
- 2023.2 (Bobcat)/Ussuri/Train have transitioned to EOL
- 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
- Ironic email
- 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 rubasov:
- Bugs without assignee or to be commented:
- See report
- This week haleyb is the bug deputy, next week will be mlavalle
- Current bug count this week: 688, down 40 from last week
- Bug squash etherpad - contains old bugs that need to be inspected and closed
- https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/dalmatian-neutron-bug-squash
- (haleyb) refreshed on December 15th, 2025
- More discussion on this topic takes place during the Neutron CI meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NeutronCI
- Confirmed gate failures
- Bugs that need attention
- All bug reports associated to deprecation issues
- Bugs Sheet
- Grafana dashboards
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-3-9 | Brian Haley (haleyb) | swapped with rubasov |
| 2026-3-16 | Bence Romsics (rubasov) | swapped with haleyb |
| 2026-3-23 | Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle) | |
| 2026-3-30 | Lajos Katona (lajoskatona) | |
| 2026-4-6 | Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh) | |
| 2026-4-13 | Helen Chen (ichen) | |
| 2026-4-20 | Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva) | |
| 2026-4-27 | Yatin Karel (ykarel) | |
| 2026-5-4 | Terry Wilson (otherwiseguy) | |
| 2026-5-11 | Miro Tomaska (mtomaska) | |
| 2026-5-18 | Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel) | |
| 2026-5-25 | Elvira García Ruiz (elvira) | |
| 2026-6-1 | Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) |
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
Specs
- Specs: https://review.opendev.org/q/project:openstack%252Fneutron-specs+status:open
- Open reviews:
- Spec development in progress:
- OVN agent BGP extension
Community Goals
- Last TC meeting summary:
- 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:
- Neutron client deprecation
- 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
- Service role implementation: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2026182
- Add support for the manager role in neutron API policies
- Eventlet removal - DONE
- Add support for the service role in neutron API policies
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
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:
- March 17th:
- (nick): topic
- (haleyb): Weekly meetings time move one hour due to DST
- March 24th:
- (ralonsoh): [OVN] Virtual ports should not update the host ID in the VIF details (https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2144312)
- Problem: having the profile host ID in a virtual port can trigger the binding of the port. This information (host ID) is only present in the ML2/OVN virtual ports.
- Solution: add a VIF details new field (something like "parent_host_id"), that will contain the same information without populating the `profile.host` field that is used by the mech driver for other purposes (port binding, for example). That will also solve issues with Octavia VIPs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2125573).
- (ralonsoh): [OVN] Virtual ports should not update the host ID in the VIF details (https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2144312)
Previous meeting logs
- Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.
