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The Big Picture

A relatively quiet week on openstack-discuss, dominated by cycle logistics for 2027.1 "Indri" and a steady stream of operator pain reports against the recently-released 2026.1. The Technical Committee is still wrestling with the Rust-in-OpenStack proposal, the Hibiscus contributor survey landed with some sobering findings on CI and review latency, and Neutron/OVN continues to generate the lion's share of concrete bug activity. Milestone-1 for Indri is just around the corner.

Releases & Cycle Milestones

The 2027.1 "Indri" cycle is 20 weeks from release, with Milestone-1 on November 19. In the TC weekly summary, Goutham Pacha Ravi also reminds PTLs that wiki.openstack.org is offline indefinitely — teams should migrate working material (goals, priorities, meeting agendas) to etherpad.opendev.org and update their openstack/irc-meetings entries. The OpenDev team is seeking volunteers to help restore the wiki.

Kolla and Kayobe, as release-trailing projects, have scheduled their PTG sessions for December 2-3: Kolla/Kolla-Ansible on Dec 2 (13:00–16:00 UTC), Kayobe on Dec 3 (15:00–17:00 UTC). Topics are being collected on the Indri PTG etherpad.

Development & Technical Decisions

Rust in OpenStack (TC). The use-case proposal for introducing Rust remains open after last week's TC meeting. Reviewers converged on asking the author to sharpen where Rust is needed and to keep Step 1 of the new-language process cleanly separate from Step 2 (staffing, packaging, CI). A framing question also surfaced: if the work evolves into a future identity-management service, should it be a new project rather than a Keystone rewrite? No decision yet — the TC is explicitly asking for concrete review feedback rather than letting it drift. See the governance review.

RBAC global auditor. Franciszek Przewoźny resurfaced the "global reader/auditor" role idea, noting that beyond being a convenience feature it's a security measure for exporters scraping OpenStack APIs. No spec or blueprint exists yet; the thread is effectively a call for a new owner after Artem's earlier offer stalled.

Neutron meeting time shuffle. With daylight savings over in the northern hemisphere, Brian Haley moved all Neutron meetings an hour later: CI Monday 15:00 UTC, Team Tuesday 14:00 UTC, Drivers Friday 14:00 UTC. The change is in review; a new team etherpad replaces the (now offline) wiki page.

Kolla version alignment. Pierre Riteau reiterated a recurring operator question: your kolla image repo branch must match your kolla-ansible branch. Container startup scripts and bundled software options change together, so mixing releases is explicitly unsupported.

Operator Pain Points

Several threads this week are operators flagging regressions and gotchas against 2026.1 and older releases:

• Neutron/OVN keepalived VIPs becoming unreachable on 2026.1 with port_security_enabled and allowed_address_pairs. Nguyễn Hữu Khôi reports that disabling port security on affected ports is the only workaround; worked fine before the upgrade. Possibly related: LP#2169909. Worth watching if you run ML2/OVN with keepalived VIPs.
• Neutron QueuePool exhaustion on 2024.1. Rodolfo Alonso bluntly pointed out that 2024.1 is in unmaintained mode; the eventlet-based Neutron API server was removed in 2025.2, and 2025.1 already defaults to uWSGI without eventlet. The upstream guidance is: upgrade.
• kolla-ansible /var/lib/ansible/.my.cnf missing during install — reported as LP#2172538 by Dariusz Bursztynowski, who's still looking for triage attention.

On the Neutron bug front, Terry Wilson's deputy report for Oct 26–Nov 1 highlights several High-severity OVN issues worth reviewer attention: an API worker deadlock in post_fork_initialize (LP#2172587), live-migration port-UP races (LP#2172645), and an OVN/EVPN FRR zebra VNI cleanup bug (LP#2172689).

CI & Testing

Ghanshyam Maan flagged that devstack-platform-centos-10-stream jobs are failing 100% and is asking for a volunteer to debug; otherwise the TC/QA will need to decide whether it's worth keeping the job even periodically. Separately, a brief Tempest plugin outage on Nov 6 was resolved — recheck is safe.

Heads Up / Action Needed

• Nov 19: Indri Milestone-1.
• Centos-10-stream devstack job needs an owner or will likely be dropped — contact gmaan.
• Rust use-case TC review (998652) is open for concrete feedback.
• Ops Radio Hour on Nov 20, 13:00 UTC needs a stand-in host (Chris Morgan is out) and topic volunteers — reply to Ildikó or add to the etherpad.
• Cinder Festival of Reviews continues on 1st/3rd Fridays, 14:00–16:00 UTC (etherpad).
• Migrate any team working docs off wiki.openstack.org.

Community & People

The big community read of the week is Ildikó Vancsa's Hibiscus survey analysis on contributor and maintainer experience. The headlines:

• CI reliability and slow reviews are the top complaints from both contributors and maintainers. Lack of review attention was mentioned for 87% of project teams that received a survey response — three times the next-highest issue.
• Contributor survey responses dropped 31%, while maintainer responses rose 33%. 45% of contributor responses came from newcomers.
• Maintainers rated their overall experience and sustainability positively; contributors rated theirs noticeably lower (under 4/5).
• AI was cited as both a cause of increased load and a proposed mitigation; maintainers specifically noted it's harder to mentor newcomers because of rising AI usage in contributions.

In project housekeeping, Seyeong Kim has been added to charms-stable-maint (Brian Haley). The Magnum weekly meeting was cancelled this week, as was next week's Neutron CI meeting (next on Nov 16). The Public Cloud SIG met Nov 4 as scheduled.