OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 24-30

Candidate Proposals for TC are now open

Candidate proposals for the Technical committee (9 positions) are open and will remain open until 2016-10-01, 23:45 UTC.
Candidacies must submit a text file to the openstack/election repository [1].
Candidates for the Technical Committee can be any foundation individual member, except the seven TC members who were elected for a one year seat in April [2].
The election will be held from October 3rd through to 23:45 October 8th.
The electorate are foundation individual members that are committers to one of the official programs projects [3] over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC).
Current accepted candidates [4]
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Release countdown for week R-0, 3-7 October

Focus: Final release week. Most project teams should be preparing for the summit in Barcelona.
General notes:

Release management team will tag the final Newton release on October 6th.

Project teams don&;t have to do anything. The release management team will re-tag the commit used in the most recent release candidate listed in openstack/releases.

Projects not following the milestone model will not be re-tagged.
Cycle-trailing projects will be skipped until the trailing deadline.

Release actions

Projects not follow the milestone-based release model who want stable/newton branches created should talk to the release team about their needs. Unbranched projects include:

cloudkitty
fuel
monasca
openstackansible
senlin
solum
tripleo

Important dates:

Newton final release: October 6th
Newton cycle-trailing deadline: October 20th
Ocata Design Summit: October 24-28

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Removal of Security and OpenStackSalt Project Teams From the Big Tent (cont.)

The change to remove Astara from the big tent was approval by the TC [4].
The TC has appointed Piet Kruithof as PTL of the UX team [5].
Based on the thread discussion [6] and engagements of the team, the Security project team will be kept as is and Rob Clark continuing as PTL [7].
The OpenStackSalt team did not produce any deliverable within the Newton cycle. The removal was approved by the current Salt team PTL and the TC [8].
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[1] &; http://governance.openstack.org/election/-to-submit-your-candidacy
[2] &8211; https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_April_2016#
[3] &8211; http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=sept-2016-elections
[4] &8211; https://review.openstack.org/#/c/376609/
[5] &8211; http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html
[6] &8211; http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/thread.html#
[7] &8211; http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html
[8] &8211; https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377906/
Quelle: openstack.org