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<p>All,</p>
<p>We once again are at the point in the release where we are
talking about 3rd Party CI and what is going on for Cinder. At
the moment I have analyzed drivers that have not successfully
reported results on a Cinder patch in 30 or more days and have put
together the following list of drivers to be unsupported in the
Ussuri release:</p>
<ul>
<li>Inspur Drivers</li>
<li>Infortrend</li>
<li>Kaminario</li>
<li>NEC</li>
<li>Quobyte</li>
<li>Zadara</li>
<li>HPE Drivers</li>
</ul>
<p>If your name is in the list above you are receiving this e-mail
directly, not just through the mailing list.</p>
<p>If you are working on resolving CI issues please let me know so
we can discuss how to proceed.</p>
<p>In addition to the fact that we will be pushing up unsupported
patches for the drivers above, we have already unsupported and
removed a number of drivers during this release. They are as
follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unsupported:</li>
<ul>
<li>MacroSAN Driver</li>
</ul>
<li>Removed:</li>
<ul>
<li>ProphetStor Driver<br>
</li>
<li>Nimble Storage Driver</li>
<li>Veritas Access Driver</li>
<li>Veritas CNFS Driver</li>
<li>Virtuozzo Storage Driver</li>
<li>Huawei FusionStorage Driver</li>
<li>Sheepdog Storage Driver</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>Obviously we are reaching the point that the number of drivers
leaving the community is concerning and it has sparked discussions
around the fact that maybe our 3rd Party CI approach isn't working
as intended. So what do we do? Just mark drivers unsupported and
no longer remove drivers? Do we restore drivers that have
recently been removed?</p>
<p>We are planning to have further discussion around these questions
at our next Cinder meeting in #openstack-meeting-4 on Wednesday,
1/29/20 at 14:00 UTC. If you have thoughts or strong opinions
around this topic please join us.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Jay Bryant</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jsbryant@electronicjungle.net">jsbryant@electronicjungle.net</a></p>
<p>IRC: jungleboyj<br>
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