OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 24-30

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Candidate Proposals for TC are now open

Candidate proposals for the Technical committee (6 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 3^rd through to 23:45 October 8^th.
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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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 6^th.
  - 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 6^th
- Newton cycle-trailing deadline: October 20^th
- Ocata Design Summit: October 24-28
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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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