Weekly Nova team meeting

Regular MEETING TIME: Mondays 16:00 UTC (#openstack-nova on OFTC)

This meeting is a weekly gathering of developers working on OpenStack Compute (Nova). We cover topics such as release planning and status, bugs, reviews, and other current topics worthy of real-time discussion.

Project Heartbeat

This information will be updated weekly but not mentioned in the meeting unless specifically called out on the agenda.

• #topic Release News
  • #link Nova 2026.2 Hibiscus schedule https://releases.openstack.org/hibiscus/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2026.1 Gazpacho schedule https://releases.openstack.org/gazpacho/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2025.2 Flamingo schedule https://releases.openstack.org/flamingo/schedule.html
  • #link Nova 2025.1 Epoxy schedule https://releases.openstack.org/epoxy/schedule.html

• #topic Stable branch status
  • #link stable/2026.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2026.1
  • #link stable/2025.2: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2025.2
  • #link stable/2025.1: https://review.opendev.org/q/status:open+(project:openstack/os-vif+OR+project:openstack/python-novaclient+OR+project:openstack/placement+OR+project:openstack/nova)+branch:stable/2025.1
  • 2024.2 Dalmatian (non-SLURP) is End of Life (tag: 2024.2-eol)
  • 2024.1 Caracal (SLURP) is Unmaintained (branch: unmaintained/2024.1)
  • 2023.2 Bobcat (non-SLURP) is End of Life (tag: 2023.2-eol)
  • 2023.1 Antelope (SLURP) is Unmaintained (branch: unmaintained/2023.1)

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #link bug triage how-to: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/BugTriage#Tags
  • #help need help with bug triage

• #topic Gate status
  • #link check queue gate status http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/index.html
  • #link 3rd party CI status (not so dead) http://ciwatch.mmedvede.net/project?project=nova

• #topic Review status page
  • #link http://status.openstack.org/reviews/#nova
  • Count: 438 (+20); Top score: 2303 (+21) (last refresh was 09-03)
  • #help Pick a patch near the top, shepherd it to closure

Agenda for next meeting

Next meetings scheduled for:

• May 11 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-05-11T16:00:00)
• May 18 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-05-18T16:00:00)
• June 01 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-06-01T16:00:00)
• June 08 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-06-08T16:00:00)
• June 15 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-06-15T16:00:00)
• June 22 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-06-22T16:00:00)
• June 29 2026 16:00 UTC #openstack-nova (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2026-06-29T16:00:00)

Where you see "?" feel free to just edit the wiki and add your item.

Here is the agenda for the next meeting:

• #topic Bugs (stuck/critical)
  • #info No Critical bug

• #topic Gate status
  • #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=gate-failure Nova gate bugs
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-ci-failures-minimal
  • #link https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Fnova&project=openstack%2Fplacement&branch=stable%2F*&branch=master&pipeline=periodic-weekly&skip=0 Nova&Placement periodic jobs status
  • #info Please look at the gate failures and file a bug report with the gate-failure tag.
  • #info Please try to provide a meaningful comment when you recheck

• #topic Release Planning
  • #link https://releases.openstack.org/hibiscus/schedule.html
  • #info Nova deadlines are set in the above schedule
  • #info PTG etherpad for 2026.2 is available: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-ptg
  • #info This week Thursday is first spec review day.
  • #info Nova soft spec freeze is next week, please submit any new specs and BP before next Thursday EOD (28 Mai)
  • #info No meeting next week due to public holiday. (most of European countries involved)

• #topic Review priorities
  • #link New file for Hibiscus https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-status
  • #info I have updated Launchpad and the above doc. Please ping me if you spot something missing.
  • #info I have flagged the priorities in bold.
  • #info Starting: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-2026.2-status#L16 interesting bugs to review.
  • #info Please review 988501: Do not log metadata proxy shared secret | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova/+/988501
  • #info Please review 471815: Expose vlan trunking in metadata/configdrive | https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/471815

• #topic Stable Branches
  • #info stable gates should be OK
  • #info stable branch status / gate failures tracking etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-stable-branch-ci

• #topic vmwareapi 3rd-party CI efforts Highlights

• #topic Gibi's news about eventlet removal

• #topic Nova using openstack sdk for neutron

• #topic Ironic review priorities

• #topic Bug scrubbing
  • #info up to 189 (-4)
  • #link https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/nova-bug-triage-roster
  • #link https://truc.uggla.fr/ to follow the trend.
  • #info New bugs assigned.
  • Next meeting (this week): [public] Upstream bug triage. Wednesday, May 20 · 15:30 – 16:00 UTC. Video call link: meet.google.com/zjr-rxus-hzj

• #topic Open discussion
  • (sean) bug janitor config
    • fungi noticed that https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/2142042 was moved form incomplete to expired by the launchpad janitor
    • "[Expired for OpenStack Compute (nova) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]"
    • i quickly disabled it beacuse we were unclear if this was intentiaonl, broken for year an djust started working or enabled by a default change in launchpad.
    • this is a checkbox in the bug config and appears to only "expire" bugs in the incompelte status after 60 days.
    • it does not affect any other bug state.
    • do we want to keep this on or off? this proably need to be set for placment os-vif and the other projects as well as i notice it was on for cybrog and watcher.

Sub-teams

There are also some Nova subteam meetings. See Nova#Nova_subteams for details.

Previous meetings

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