Hi Cephers, The big topic today has been on the *Ceph project Governance*, especifically, *Ceph Steering Committee (CSC) changes *in the context of the ongoing* Ceph Executive Council (CEC) renewal*. Please check this email thread <https://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-users/msg84293.html> and this etherpad <https://pad.ceph.com/p/css-vote-2024q4> for more details. Additionally: - We reviewed the *new candidates* proposed to the CSC (removals have been deferred), - Discussed about the *CSC vs. CLT naming* (decision to continue with CSC), - Proposed an *alternating CSC/CLT meeting* (+12h) to facilitate everyone around the Globe to join (e.g: APAC). - Proposed to *limit the max number of CSC members* (deferred). The first ballot <https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/f276a15a-84c5-11ef-a0e4-b69e035002b0/view> is now open and will run until next Monday. --- Also: @Radoslaw Zarzynski <rzarzyns@redhat.com> brought up the following topics: - *Facilities for testing intended FTBFSes*: driving factor: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/60159/files - *Namespaces in ceph-dencoder*: let's discuss next week, CC @Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@redhat.com> @Nizamudeen A <nia@redhat.com> communicated *he's stepping down from the Ceph Dashboard team* leadership, and that @Afreen Misbah <afrahman@redhat.com>* will take over*. Welcome and good luck, Afreen! @John Zachary Dover <zac.dover@gmail.com> announced that *Ceph Quarterly <https://ceph.io/en/community/cq/> #6 will be published on the 15th of October*, and asked for Squid highlights. @Casey Bodley <cbodley@redhat.com> asked about the *status of the latest Quincy* release, and @Yuri Weinstein <yweinste@redhat.com> confirmed that it is still *in progress*, with ~8 PRs pending. --- We wanted to remind you that the CSC/CLT weekly meeting (Mondays 11am ET) is open to anyone actively involved in the project's both short and long-term challenges (feel free to review and suggest topics in https://pad.ceph.com/p/clt-weekly-minutes). Kind Regards, Ernesto