Hi everyone,

a few years ago we have a adopted under the OpenStack umbrella a number of xstatic packages used by Horizon and its plugins, because they seemed to be unmaintained at the time, and we needed to keep them secure. A few weeks ago one of those packages, xstatic-font-awesome, got a new release by its original authors – the good people at the MoinMoin Wiki project, where the XStatic mechanism originated. That surprised us a little, and raised some concerns, since the release wasn't done using the OpenStack process, so we reached out to clear this situation. After discussion, we have decided to remove two xstatic packages: xstatic-font-awesome and xstatic-jquery.tablesorter from the OpenStack repositories and let them be maintained by the MoinMoin Wiki contributors instead, together with many other xstatic packages they use, so that there is no more confusion about who is responsible for them. We will continue to use pinned versions of those packages in Horizon, but we will no longer keep them as part of the OpenStack project.

We will start the retirement process on the repositories for those packages shortly.