Dear OpenStack Community, A bit more than two years ago the Unmaintained state was formalized [1] to signal towards the community that branches beyond the official maintained phase are not officially supported by the project teams themselves, rather by volunteers with interests to keep these branches open for co-operation and bug fix backports. This requires CI maintenance time to time, as CI jobs, infrastructure, packaging and build tools might also change under these legacy unmaintained branches. My employer, Ericsson, chose to support this process for further co- operation on these legacy branches and we stepped up as maintainer for unmaintained branches back till unmaintained/victoria as a starter, as long as it is feasible. Unfortunately, in the past months the point is reached where multiple gate jobs got broken, CI infrastructure elements (old ubuntu versions, old python versions) went to End of Life, too, and keeping meaningful testing [2] functional, is harder and harder on the oldest unmaintained/* branches [3]. Given these circumstances, I'm officially initiating to move old unmaintained branches to End of Life, starting with Victoria, and up till Yoga. I'll prepare the transition patches next week. Thanks to all, who helped with these old branches for this long. Sincerely, Előd Illés irc: elodilles @ #openstack-release / #openstack-stable / #openstack-unmaintained [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20230724-unmaintained-branch... [2] there were arguments about making it possible to merge patches without tempest or even without any tests, but that is something that we should avoid in my opinion as we cannot be sure that we don't introduce regressions if there were no proper testing and no one would want to consume untested code. [3] ubuntu-bionic node type is removed, py36 based jobs disappeared, tempest jobs started to fail with some test cases and with that, grenade jobs as well, etc.