[watcher] Unmaintained branch cleanup
Hi everyone, Watcher currently has two unmaintained branches[1], unmaintained/2024.1 and unmaintained/2023.1. The latter has not had any patch in 2 years [2] so we plan to move it to eol. We will discuss it in the next Watcher IRC meeting, but I'm writing this message early to give everyone a chance to raise any objection. Please respond to this message if you have any objection, if there are none, I will propose a patch to move the branch next Thursday, after the Watcher IRC meeting and share the link here. Regards, Joan [1] https://opendev.org/openstack/watcher/branches [2] https://opendev.org/openstack/watcher/commits/branch/unmaintained/2023.1
Hello again, We've discussed this topic in the Watcher IRC meeting earlier today[1] and there have been no objections to the proposal. As there has been no objection in the mailing list as well, I've proposed a patch[2] to remove the branch. [1] https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/watcher/2025/watcher.2025-11-06-12.01.... [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/966293 El 31/10/25 a les 14:21, Joan Gilabert ha escrit:
Hi everyone,
Watcher currently has two unmaintained branches[1], unmaintained/2024.1 and unmaintained/2023.1. The latter has not had any patch in 2 years [2] so we plan to move it to eol. We will discuss it in the next Watcher IRC meeting, but I'm writing this message early to give everyone a chance to raise any objection. Please respond to this message if you have any objection, if there are none, I will propose a patch to move the branch next Thursday, after the Watcher IRC meeting and share the link here.
Regards,
Joan
[1] https://opendev.org/openstack/watcher/branches
[2] https://opendev.org/openstack/watcher/commits/branch/unmaintained/2023.1
On 2025-11-06 17:14:15 +0100 (+0100), Joan Gilabert wrote:
We've discussed this topic in the Watcher IRC meeting earlier today[1] and there have been no objections to the proposal. As there has been no objection in the mailing list as well, I've proposed a patch[2] to remove the branch. [...]
While it's great that you're being proactive about this, the unmaintained process was supposed to work the other way around. Branches with no volunteer caretakers are supposed to be getting deleted by default, with no action needed by the project maintainers. Unfortunately that's not been happening that I can tell, which indicates a failure in the overall process. -- Jeremy Stanley
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Jeremy Stanley
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Joan Gilabert