Hello Argonauts,
The new driver merge deadline passed at 20:00 UTC today.
I'm extending the new driver merge deadline to Friday 28 January at 20:00 UTC for two drivers:
1. Lightbits: It has both a cinder and os-brick patch, and I want the team to have more time to look at the os-brick patch. I think the driver patch is close to ready; the developers have been quick to respond to comments and make revisions. Also, the third-party CI is functioning and responding on patches. cinder: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/821602 os-brick: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/os-brick/+/821603
2. NEC Storage V Series: the driver patch has one +2 and the third party CI is functioning and responding on patches; I don't see any reason to make this one wait for the Z release. https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/815614
Cinder core reviewers: please continue to review the above patches.
With respect to the other proposed drivers: - Pure Storage NVMe-RoCE: vendor decided to hold it for Z - Dell EMC PowerStore NFS driver: vendor decided to hold it for Z - HPE XP Storage FC & iSCSI: the code is very straightforward, but the CI is not ready yet, so this will have to wait for Z - YADRO Tatlin.UNIFIED driver: initial patch arrived yesterday (and has a -1 from Zuul); the CI appears to be running, but the cinder team needs to move on to reviewing os-brick and Yoga feature patches, so this will have to wait for Z also
cheers, brian