Meetings/TechnicalCommittee

The OpenStack Technical Committee is one of the governing bodies of the OpenStack project. You can find more information about it, such as the list of its current members or its governance charter, on the OpenStack TC governance website at https://governance.openstack.org/tc/ .

In order to include as many people as possible in the discussion, the Technical Committee relies on asynchronous communications as much as possible. We propose and vote on changes through the openstack/governance repository. Large-impact changes are discussed on the openstack-discuss mailing-list. We track current initiatives on the Technical_Committee_Tracker.

Although we don't hold office hours, you can find various members of the TC at various times throughout the week in the #openstack-tc IRC channel. We also meet formally each week in #openstack-tc.

Next Meeting

• Date: 2026 May 19
• Time: 1700 UTC: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Technical_Committee_Meeting
• Chair: Goutham Pacha Ravi (gouthamr), Michał Nasiadka (mnasiadka)
• Agenda to be published on the OpenStack-discuss mailing list before the meeting
• Location:
  • IRC (OFTC) - #openstack-tc

Agenda

• Roll call
  • courtesy-ping: gouthamr, noonedeadpunk, tonyb, frickler, spotz[m], dansmith, cardoe, mnasiadka, bauzas
• Last Week's Action Items
• Updates to PTI (stephenfin)
  • Main proposal is to adopt PEP-735 dependency groups to capture our non-runtime dependencies (unit testing, linters, documentation, ...) as a step towards allowing us to move past requirements.txt files, which are pip-specific and largely being abandoned by upstream Python. See the pkg_resources removal and sqlalchemy 1.x->2.x for reasons why not investing in keeping up with the broader ecosystem is a bad idea.
    • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/988439/ (openstack/governance change)
    • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/requirements/+/987879/ (openstack/requirements change)
    • cardoe has noted on the reviews that we may wish to do the same for bindep targets, to ease container image building
  • Secondary proposal to indicate that the golang PTI is massively out-of-date and needs work to be usable
    • An alternative would be to delete that doc and re-evaluate go(lang) support if anyone decides to use it in the future
    • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/988440 (openstack/governance change)
• Keeping release liaisons up to date (Duplicate info for DPL teams, inactive liaisons)
  • (stephenfin) My point below is related (but not identical) to this
  • #link https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/reference/projects.yaml
  • #link https://opendev.org/openstack/releases/src/branch/master/data/release_liaisons.yaml
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/984110
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/988780
• Migrating release liaison data from openstack/release to openstack/governance (stephenfin)
  • I'm not sure if there's a reason this hasn't been done before now, but I've proposed modifying reference/projects.yaml from openstack/governance to allow PTL-led projects to have release liaisons. This allows us to remove this duplication of data from openstack/release.
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/989156/1
  • #link https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/989164
• Mandating use of pyproject.toml files (stephenfin)
  • OpenStack benefits from its projects using the same tooling and conventions consistently across projects. Most projects have adopted pyproject.toml files now. Should we insist on them at this point? I imagine this can enforced via the requirements.txt jobs.
• A check on gate health
• TC Tracker, PTG Follow up
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tc-2026.2-tracker (Technical Committee activity tracker - 2026.2)
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/apr2026-ptg-os-tc-summary
• Open Discussion and Reviews

Past meetings logs

Logs of past TC meetings can be accessed at http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc for IRC meetings and https://www.youtube.com/@openstack-tc for past video meetings.