Promotions
* Latest promotions (TripleO CI) for Stein from 13th December, Train from 12th December and Master from 9th December.
* There are some intermittent issues in some TripleO jobs in master
* Master and Stein are facing intermittent issues due to performance and deployment getting timed out, currently being worked upon to improve it. Currently mainly seen in RDO stein phase1 TripleO job
   * https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1844446

Deps Update
* OVN and OpenVswitch both being bumped to 2.12 in Train
   * https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/23960/
* Python-amqp is bumped to 2.5.2 in Ussuri

Packages
* Python-tempestconf is updated to 2.4.0 in Ussuri
* New package sushy-oem-idrac is added in Ussuri and Train
* New package networking-omnipath is being added in Ussuri
Other
* CentOS8 Preparation:
   * Dependencies have been built in copr repo:-
      * https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/openstack-sig/centos8-deps/packages/
      * https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/rebuild-deps-centos8
   * A new DLRN instance for CentOS8 workers have been created.
   * DLRN worker for CentOS8 on Train is created and being bootstrapped:
      * https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8-train/report.html
   * Bootstrap for DLRN worker for CentOS8 following master is pending on componentization review:
      * https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/22394/
   * CentOS8 is being tested with devstack, packstack and puppet-openstack-integration using dependencies from copr and temporary DLRN worker.
   * Work in progress to add CI jobs to test distgit changes using CentOS8.

* New non-voting job which checks requirements (rdopkg reqcheck) is added in Distgit projects
   * https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/q/topic:test_reqcheck


On behalf of RDO