minutes from today's meeting of the Ceph Steering Committee: Discuss Umbrella release schedule - https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/dev/release-checklists/#dev-kickoff - Based on release engineering meeting discussion - Feature freeze - end of May 2026 - RC phase June - Aug 2026 - GA September 2026 - where best to track features? trello/redmine/gh projects -- Core Trello - https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog -- redmine can list features with filter "Tracker" is "Feature" drop.ceph.com is unreachable post lab migration (https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/74517) - Infra team is aware, but cannot fix it for awhile - Is ceph-post-file still being used by people? If not, we may decide to remove the test. - ssh is blocked in new lab, perhaps a web form for uploads CSC Election - Stage two will run from April 15th to April 29th. This voting round will cover the following topics: -- CSC Co-Chairs -- Adding a removal policy to the CSC Governance -- CSC Representative, as stated in the CSC Charter - Candidates' speeches 1-2 minutes each. we heard from Dan van der Ster, Ernesto Puerta, Gregory Farnum, Neha Ojha, and Patrick Donnelly. Joseph Mundackal will email the csc list today - how does voting guarantee that no company has all 3 co-chairs? consensus: pick the first 2, and fall back to the next highest votes from a different company - co-chairs will select board rep amongst themselves should we enable immutable releases in the Ceph repo? Hardware gaps? CapEx planning.