As 2024.1 Caracal was released recently and we are in a less busy

period, now is the good time to call your attention to the following:

In less than 2 weeks Zed is planned to transition to Unmaintained [1]

state as planned date is May 2nd, 2024. (For details about Unmaintained

I have generated the transition patches [4] for Zed's every

deliverables. After the transition it will not be possible anymore to

release off of Zed branch.

So it is strongly recommended to do a *final* Zed release if there are

any merged or open patches that would fix a significant bug. On the

other hand, please be careful to not to release any breaking changes

as there won't be possible to do another release!

Please mark the transition patch with a -1 if your team plans to do

such final release, or +1 if the team is ready for the transition.

The schedule from now on is as follows:

* patches with +1 from PTL / release liaison will be merged, thus

  those repositories will transition to Unmaintained

* at the planned deadline (May 2nd) the Release Team will merge all

  transition patches (even the ones without any response!)

* unmaintained/zed branch will be cut from HEAD of stable/zed

* after the transition, stable/zed will be *deleted*!

* there won't be official releases anymore for Zed

Don't forget, that:

* backports can be pushed to unmaintained/zed branch

* openstack-unmaintained-core (or <project>-unmaintained-core groups if

  such exists) have the rights to merge patches

(please see my former mail about Unmaintained gates [5])

*NOTE*: teams, please focus on wrapping up your libraries first if

there is any concern about the changes, in order to avoid broken

(final!!) releases!

[1] https://releases.openstack.org

[2] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#unmaintained

[3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20230724-unmaintained-branches.html

[4] https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:zed-unmaintained

[5] https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/CGRE57VLNZEVTRMHIMUMS743FJNORDST/

Thanks for reading this,

Előd