<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Hello,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">We've kept stable/rocky and stable/stein branches of kolla and kolla-ansible around under extended maintenance for a while now.</span></font><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The coordinated Rocky release was 30th Aug, 2018 (Kolla on 22nd Oct, 2018) and Stein was 10th Apr, 2019 (Kolla on 17th Jul, 2019).</span></font><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">The last time a change was backported to these branches has been a while:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- kolla</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/rocky: Sep 4, 2020</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/stein: Mar 19, 2021</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- kolla-ansible</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/rocky: Sep 13, 2020</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/stein: May 28,2021</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">There is no CI running for those projects periodically, last CI jobs have been run:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- kolla:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/rocky: Jul 8th 2019</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/stein: Dec 10th 2020</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">- kolla-ansible</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/rocky: Sep 14th 2019</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> stable/stein: Dec 10th 2020</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">All changes to those branches have been abandoned long time (and nothing new proposed for at least a year):</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/rocky+project:openstack/kolla" class="">https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/rocky+project:openstack/kolla</a><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/stein+project:openstack/kolla" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/stein+project:openstack/kolla</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/rocky+project:openstack/kolla-ansible" class="">https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/rocky+project:openstack/kolla-ansible</a><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/stein+project:openstack/kolla-ansible" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">https://review.opendev.org/q/branch:stable/stein+project:openstack/kolla-ansible</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">In addition to that - kolla-ansible CI jobs have incorrect Zuul configurations (see <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-November/025797.html" class="">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-November/025797.html</a>) - and on one of the Kolla weekly meetings it was decided to mark those branches as EOL.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">So, I'd like to request that these branches be moved to end-of-life.<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Patch proposed to add EOL tags to both kolla and kolla-ansible:</div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/818920" class="">https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/818920</a></span></font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Best regards,</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Michal</span></font></div></body></html>