Hi folks,

As an ongoing effort to return Freezer project back to the list of
Active projects and recovering gate health for repositories owned by
Freezer, I've come across freezer-dr[1]

Freezer DR is a separate from freezer/freezer-api instance-ha project
which is highly pluggable by design with the main goal to evacuate
instances from the compute node once service detects that the serving
compute node is down. And that is what is currently achieved by the
Masakari project. While pluggable design for the service, can be
treated as a good benefit in favor of it. Another relatively valuable
benefit of freezer-dr, is that it uses nova service state to detect if
the compute is down, rather then require 3rd party cluster tooling to
independently evaluate hypervisor health.
Regardless, I don't see enough value to keep maintenance of that
project and instead it's better to keep focus on Masakari
maintenance/development instead.

With that being said, I suggest the retirement of the freezer-dr project.

If someone feels in favor of keeping maintenance of a separate project
for instance evacuation - please feel free to reply in thread until
December 10, 2024. After that date I will initiate the project
retirement process.


[1] https://opendev.org/openstack/freezer-dr