Hi all, At the PTG, Ironic cores discussed the state of unmaintained branches in Ironic, this email serves as documentation of this conversation as well as a call to action for anyone who uses (some) unmaintained projects. During this discussion, it was very clear that we believe two things are ready for being fully end-of-life'd: - Bifrost; all unmaintained branches. Bifrost is more of a deployment utility than a service; it takes considerable effort to keep it working past the normal maintenance period. It's the consensus of Ironic cores that all current unmaintained branches for bifrost should be closed, and we should avoid opening them in the future. - Victoria: all projects. There are no longer Ironic core reviewers with vested interest in keeping victoria releases of Ironic (and related projects under BM governance) around anymore. This decision is also informed by the significant effort required to get patches tested against victoria during the recent Ironic OSSAs/CVEs. Since traditionally we have handled our own unmaintained branches, we're making a call for anyone who'd like to keep this alive -- including the current unmaintenance team. This is awkward, because if these were branches Ironic fully controlled we would simply end-of-life them. However, since the idea is for these branches to be able to be maintained without the core teams' interaction, we were going to make this call out. If you have interest in keeping maintenance for these branches, please let us know -- otherwise we will begin efforts to end of life them. Thanks, Jay Faulkner