On 11/12, Brian Rosmaita wrote:

As discussed at our midcycle meeting last week [0], the Cinder project team hereby announces the deprecation of cinderlib, a library that allows the direct usage of Cinder backend drivers without the cinder services.

Cinderlib is a cycle-trailing release, and thus this announcement comes on the heels of the 2023.2 (Bobcat) release of cinderlib, which happened just last week. The Cinder project team will continue to support cinderlib in the stable Maintained branches for their normal lifecycles, as specified by the OpenStack Stable Branch Policy:

- stable/2023.2: end of maintenance Spring 2025 - stable/2023.1: end of maintenance Fall 2024 - stable/zed: end of maintenance Spring 2024

The stable/victoria through stable/yoga branches are in Unmaintained status.

If you have questions or concerns about the deprecation of cinderlib, please reply to this email or leave a comment on the governance patch:

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/903259

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[0] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CinderCaracalMidCycleSummary

Hi Brian, I confirm this matches what was agreed in the midcycle and that the largest stakeholders (Ember-CSI and oVirt) are ok with it as they can keep using the older releases for their needs. Thank you for working on this. Cheers, Gorka.