This is a notification that the Cinder new driver merge deadline for Victoria has passed [0]. At yesterday's Cinder team meeting, we discussed Walt's work on the ceph-iscsi driver [1], and the team came to a consensus that we will extend the deadline *for this driver only* into the R-9 week (cinder midcycle meeting 2 week), which will make the deadline for the ceph-iscsi driver Thursday 13 August 23:59 UTC. This is an extraordinary step, as traditionally Cinder has strictly enforced the new driver merge deadline. The reasons for this exception are: - this is a community driver - the check/gate jobs for this driver will be run from the cinder zuul configuration, not a third-party CI system, so the cinder team has full transparency into the working state of the CI system I want to emphasize again that this is an extraordinary event, and as such, should not be expected to set a precedent beyond the Victoria development cycle. And, of course, this deadline extension is not a guarantee that the driver will be included in the Victoria release. Thank you for your attention to this matter, brian [0] https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html#v-cinder-driver-deadli... [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/(topic:ceph-iscsi-zuul+OR+topic:ceph-iscsi)+(...)