Hello Stackers, The "watcher" project [1] did not have any volunteers to lead the project in the 2025.1 election cycle. In the past few years, the project's team has slowly disbanded and there have been no significant changes proposed/merged in the project's repositories [2]. We noticed that there were three deployers that noted their use of Watcher in production in the past user survey [3]. It's possible that the project failed to gather any significant adoption, and hence there's less interest in contributing to, and maintaining the project. I'm sending this notification pursuant to the OpenStack governance recommendations [4] to retire project teams. We can mark a project team "inactive", however, an "inactive" project must have some contributors aiming to build-back a maintainers team around it - and it must pick a project team lead, or adopt a distributed project leadership model by nominating liaisons. Since there are no PTL nominees, we think marking this project "inactive" serves no purpose. Is there any objection to retiring the "openstack/watcher" project (and associated deliverables: python-watcherclient, watcher-dashboard and watcher-tempest-plugin)? Once the project is retired, configuration management and deployment projects can drop their integrations as well. Thanks, On behalf of the OpenStack TC, Goutham Pacha Ravi [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Watcher [2] https://review.opendev.org/q/(project:%5Eopenstack/watcher.*+OR+project:open...) [3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/user_survey/analysis-2023.html [4] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/dropping-projects.html