<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ac1e087f-7fff-63dd-ff45-13422a87abdc"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello TripleO</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I would like to propose that we move all tripleo stable/rocky repos [1] to "unmaintained", with a view to tagging as end-of-life in due course.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This will allow us to focus our efforts on keeping the check and gate queues green and continue to deliver weekly promotions for the more recent and active stable/* branches train ussuri victoria and master.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The stable/rocky repos have not had much action in the last few months - I collected some info at [2] about the most recent stable/rocky commits for each of the tripleo repos. For many of those there are no commits in the last 6 months and for some even longer.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The tripleo stable/rocky repos were tagged as "extended maintenance" (rocky-em) [2] in April 2020 with [3].</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have already reduced our CI commitment for rocky - these [4] are the current check/gate jobs and these [5] are the jobs that run for promotion to current-tripleo. However maintaining this doesn’t make sense if we are not even using it e.g. merging things into tripleo-* stable/rocky. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please raise your objections or any other comments or thoughts about this. Unless there are any blockers raised here, the plan is to put this into motion early in January.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One still unanswered question I have is that since there is no ‘unmaintained’ tag, in the same way as we have the <release>-em or <release-eol> for extended maintenance and end-of-life, do we simply _declare_ that the repos are unmaintained? Then after a period of “0 to 6 months” per [6] we can tag the tripleo repos with rocky-eol. If any one reading this knows please tell us!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks for reading!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">regards, marios</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] <a href="https://releases.openstack.org/teams/tripleo.html#rocky">https://releases.openstack.org/teams/tripleo.html#rocky</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] <a href="http://paste.openstack.org/raw/800464/">http://paste.openstack.org/raw/800464/</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3] <a href="https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/709912">https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/709912</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[4] <a href="http://dashboard-ci.tripleo.org/d/3-DYSmOGk/jobs-exploration?orgId=1&var-influxdb_filter=branch%7C%3D%7Cstable%2Frocky">http://dashboard-ci.tripleo.org/d/3-DYSmOGk/jobs-exploration?orgId=1&var-influxdb_filter=branch%7C%3D%7Cstable%2Frocky</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[5] <a href="http://dashboard-ci.tripleo.org/d/3-DYSmOGk/jobs-exploration?orgId=1&fullscreen&panelId=9&var-influxdb_filter=type%7C%3D%7Crdo&var-influxdb_filter=job_name%7C%3D~%7C%2Fperiodic.*-rocky%2F">http://dashboard-ci.tripleo.org/d/3-DYSmOGk/jobs-exploration?orgId=1&fullscreen&panelId=9&var-influxdb_filter=type%7C%3D%7Crdo&var-influxdb_filter=job_name%7C%3D~%7C%2Fperiodic.*-rocky%2F</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[6] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#maintenance-phases">https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#maintenance-phases</a></span></p></div>