Hello, Zorillas!

During this week's IRC meeting we talked about the features we are working on and that need a feature freeze exception, and three contributors shared changes that need some more time to get to completion:

1. Human Readable Export locations:

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/manila/+/908897 - Core + API

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/python-manilaclient/+/908909 - CLI

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/manila/+/908907 - NetApp driver implementation

This change relates to an RFE created by operators a couple of cycles ago, and it will enhance the usability for Manila users while mounting shares. The author of this change has been responding to all comments and actively working with the reviewers to implement the suggested modifications. The author mentioned that he would need more time to fix the review comments.

2. Share backups for NetApp driver:

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/manila/+/910595 - Changes to the backup base driver

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/manila/+/909115 - NetApp Backup driver

The generic approach for share backups was implemented in the previous cycle and NetApp is working on a driver-specific implementation for backups. The author has also been actively working with the reviewers providing updates, but more time would be needed for more review rounds.

3. Deferred deletion:

This is also a feature we have been designing for a while, and it will be useful when the backend takes a lot of time to delete shares. Manila will be able to release the quotas and track the shares deletion in the background. The author worked on review comments very fast and addressed the issues pointed by the reviews, but we still need some more review rounds.

I would like to grant a feature freeze exception for the three features mentioned and we should aim to merge them by the end of the next week (march 8th).

Thank you,