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, ykarel, lajoskatona, jlibosva, haleyb, ralonsoh
Contents
Announcements / Reminders
- Hibiscus/2026.2 release in progress
- We are currently in Week R-14
- Next week is the Hibiscus-2 milestone (July 2nd)
- Release countdown email:
- PTG
- Hibiscus PTG April 20-24, 2026
- PTG Website: https://openinfra.org/ptg/
- 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
- 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
- 2024.2 (Dalmatian) transitioned to EOL
- 2024.1 (Caracal)/2023.1 (Antelope)/Zed/Yoga/Xena/Wallaby/Victoria have transitioned to Unmaintained
- 2024.2 (Dalmatian)/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 mlavalle is the bug deputy, next week will be lajoskatona
- Current bug count this week: 573, down 2 over 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-6-22 | Miguel Lavalle (mlavalle) | |
| 2026-6-29 | Lajos Katona (lajoskatona) | |
| 2026-7-6 | Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh) | switched with bcafarel |
| 2026-7-13 | Helen Chen (ichen) | |
| 2026-7-20 | Jakub Libosvar (jlibosva) | |
| 2026-7-27 | Yatin Karel (ykarel) | |
| 2026-8-3 | Terry Wilson (otherwiseguy) | |
| 2026-8-10 | Miro Tomaska (mtomaska) | |
| 2026-8-17 | Bernard Cafarelli (bcafarel) | |
| 2026-8-24 | Elvira García Ruiz (elvira) | |
| 2026-8-31 | Slawek Kaplonski (slaweq) | |
| 2026-9-7 | Brian Haley (haleyb) | |
| 2026-9-14 | Bence Romsics (rubasov) |
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:
- Previous cycle specs:
- 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
- Change callers to use neutron openstacksdk code
- Neutron project_id migration/tenant_id removal
- Active patches to review:
- These have to merge in a specific order, first:
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstacksdk/+/992536 (change remaining sdk code to use project_id) (merged)
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/tempest/+/991754 (change some neutron code to use project_id)
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-tempest-plugin/+/987959 (remove usage of tenant_id) (merged)
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/991948 (this requires some of the above sdk work to merge as well)
- Then this:
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/986961 (temporarily stop using neutron-lib project_info/attribute code)
- Then this:
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/986962 (add project_id to all API attributes and remove tenant_id)
- Then this:
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-lib/+/986960 (add project_id to all API attributes and remove tenant_id)
- A follow-on is required after neutron-lib is released to change back to using it's attribute code that was removed in 986961:
- TBD
- Neutron project_id migration/tenant_id removal
- Past Goals:
- Eventlet removal - 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
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:
- June 29th:
- (nick): topic
Previous meeting logs
- Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.
