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/ . It meets weekly in an open meeting in the #openstack-meeting IRC channel on Freenode. See the governance website for details on how to propose governance changes.

Current proposals

Status last updated: September 1st, 2017

Leadership

• Top-5 list additions
  • "Reduce Development Complexity" [1] (cdent)
    • Status: Open discussion
  • "Service layering" [2] (johnthetubaguy)
    • Status: Open discussion
  • Adding infra to the top 5 help wanted list (fungi)
    • Next step: fungi to raise discussion / submit a proposal

New project teams

• Add Stackube project team [3]
  • Status: Project was set up, ready for review again. Dims mentoring.
• Add Glare project team [4]
  • Status: Ready for review again. Team will meet with TC at the PTG.
  • ML thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-July/119442.html
• Add Blazar project team [5]
  • Status: Ready for review again. Team will meet with TC at the PTG.
• Add Gluon project team [6]
  • Status: Frozen while Gluon discusses further integration opportunities with Neutron
  • Next step: Meet with the TC at the PTG to discuss recent progress in Neutron integration

Inclusion & Diversity

• Decisions should be globally inclusive [7] (johnthetubaguy)
  • Status: Discussion in progress on latest revision. Is likely to be transformed into guidance in the Project Team Guide
• Drop Technical Committee meetings [8] (flaper87)
  • Status: Voting in progress after last-minute typo fix, couple more votes needed
• Replace UC or TC-side "workgroups" by neutral "SIGs" to encourage wide participation (mrhillsman, ttx)
  • ML thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-June/118723.html
  • Status: ML created, "meta" SIG set up, first workgroups to be migrated
  • Next step: Migrate volunteer WGs

Other

• Be explicit about supported database versions [9] (mordred)
  • ML thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-August/121144.html
  • Status: Open discussion
• Support "Driver teams" [10] [11]
  • Status: Frozen while thingee works on driver discoverability
• networking-cisco project team addition [12] (thingee)
  • Status: Blocked until driver teams are a thing
  • Next step: thingee to reach out to networking-cisco folks to check how much discoverability solves their issue
• How to deal with confusion around "hosted" projects (ttx)
  • Initial ML thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-June/118368.html
  • Subsequent ML thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-June/119043.html
  • Status: Brainstorming

Next Meeting

• Date: tbd
• Chair: tbd

Agenda

• tbd

Apologies for Absence

• tbd

Past meetings logs

Logs of past TC meetings can be accessed at: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc