At today's Cinder meeting [0] we discussed the unmerged proposed drivers (3 volume drivers, 1 backup driver) in light of tomorrow's new driver merge deadline. Here's a summary of what we decided: 1. s3 cinder backup driver https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/746561 The code looks basically OK but the driver hasn't been independently tested. There's a proposed CI job but it currently isn't passing. ==> plan: aim for two +2s on the patch before the merge deadline, but hold off on merging until we have confirmation that the driver works, hopefully but the CI working by next week (Thursday 28 January). 2. TOYOU ACS5000 driver https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/767290/ Code is looking good and they've been good about quickly revising patches. The CI is running and driver is passing tempest and cinder-tempest-plugin tests, though it's not reporting reliably on patches. They've agreed to get their CI responding properly by milestone-3. ==> plan: the requested revisions haven't been major, so this is looking good for tomorrow's deadline. We anticipate that the CI situation will be corrected by M-3. 3. Ceph iSCSI driver https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/662829 Code is looking good but the CI isn't passing yet. ==> plan: this is an important community driver so we're extending the deadline two weeks to 5 February. 4. Kioxia Kumoscale driver (and brick changes) https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/768574 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/os-brick/+/768575 https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/os-brick/+/768576 Kioxia reports that their CI is up though it's not reporting yet. This is a large change and the cinder team review bandwidth has been low this cycle, but with the other drivers (mostly) done at this point, we should be able to get faster reviews on these. ==> plan: new driver merge extension to 8 Feb, that is, code merged and CI running and reporting by that date to be included in wallaby. cheers, brian [0] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2021/cinder.2021-01-20-14.00....