If there are any objections/suggestions on the above plan kindly please let us know within the next 3-4 weeks since the spec freeze date for glance is 12th Jan, 2024. If there will be no response till 4th Jan we will assume that it's a go forward signal and can merge the spec lite for the same. Thanks On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 11:20 AM Pranali Deore <pdeore@redhat.com> wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Glance core team have discussed and decided during Caracal PTG[1] about the deprecation of location strategy since in Bobcat we added support for the weighing mechanism to glance store[2]. To use this new feature we decided to deprecate location strategy in this cycle and remove it in 'D' (2024.2) development cycle[3].

In this cycle we are going to deprecate following configuration options related to location strategy: * location_strategy * store_type_preference Also a warning message regarding deprecation will be added to`location_order` and `store_type` strategy module during the initiation phase.

Please let us know if you have any comments on the plan above.

[1]: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-glance#L74 [2]: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/glance-specs/+/886040 [3]: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/glance-specs/+/899804

Thanks & Regards, Pranali Deore