[neutron][networking-midonet] Maintainers needed
Hi, Over the past couple of cycles we have noticed that new contributions and maintenance efforts for networking-midonet project were lower and lower. This impacts patches for bug fixes, new features and reviews. The Neutron core team is trying to at least keep the CI of this project more or less healthy, but we don't have enough cycles and knowledge about the details of this project code base to review more complex patches. During the PTG in Shanghai we discussed that with operators and TC members during the forum session [1] and later within the Neutron team during the PTG session [2]. During these discussions, with the help of operators and TC members, we reached the conclusion that we need to have someone responsible for maintaining project. This doesn't mean that the maintainer needs to spend full time working on this project. Rather, we need someone to be the contact person for the project, who takes care of the project's CI and review patches. Of course that'ss only a minimal requirement. If the new maintainer works on new features for the project, it's even better :) I recently spoke with members of current networking-midonet core team and they told me that they don't have cycles to focus on this project. So if we don't have any new maintainer(s) before milestone Victoria-2, which is Jul 27 - Jul 31 according to [3], we will need to mark networking-midonet as deprecated for removal. "Removal" means that in W cycle we will remove code of this project from its master branch and there will be no new releases of it. We will still keep code in stable branches which were already released until its EOL. So if You are using this project now, or if You have customers who are using it, please consider the possibility of maintaining it. Otherwise, please be aware that it is highly possible that the project will be deprecated and moved out from the official OpenStack projects. [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-Neutron-stadium-projects-the-path-forwa... [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Shanghai-Neutron-Planning-restored - Lines 379-421 [3] https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html -- Slawek Kaplonski Senior software engineer Red Hat
Hi, It’s been a while since I sent last message and ask if anyone wants to keep networking-midonet maintained in Neutron stadium. I didn’t get any responses for that yet and as we are now in a week of Victoria-2 milestone it’s “final call” for new maintainers for this project. Next week I will start sending patches to mark this project as deprecated in the same way as we did with neutron-fwaas in the U cycle. So if You are using networking-midonet and You want to keep it in Neutron stadium, please reach out to me by email or on IRC.
On 23 Jun 2020, at 09:25, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
Over the past couple of cycles we have noticed that new contributions and maintenance efforts for networking-midonet project were lower and lower. This impacts patches for bug fixes, new features and reviews. The Neutron core team is trying to at least keep the CI of this project more or less healthy, but we don't have enough cycles and knowledge about the details of this project code base to review more complex patches.
During the PTG in Shanghai we discussed that with operators and TC members during the forum session [1] and later within the Neutron team during the PTG session [2].
During these discussions, with the help of operators and TC members, we reached the conclusion that we need to have someone responsible for maintaining project. This doesn't mean that the maintainer needs to spend full time working on this project. Rather, we need someone to be the contact person for the project, who takes care of the project's CI and review patches. Of course that'ss only a minimal requirement. If the new maintainer works on new features for the project, it's even better :)
I recently spoke with members of current networking-midonet core team and they told me that they don't have cycles to focus on this project. So if we don't have any new maintainer(s) before milestone Victoria-2, which is Jul 27 - Jul 31 according to [3], we will need to mark networking-midonet as deprecated for removal. "Removal" means that in W cycle we will remove code of this project from its master branch and there will be no new releases of it. We will still keep code in stable branches which were already released until its EOL.
So if You are using this project now, or if You have customers who are using it, please consider the possibility of maintaining it. Otherwise, please be aware that it is highly possible that the project will be deprecated and moved out from the official OpenStack projects.
[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-Neutron-stadium-projects-the-path-forwa... [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Shanghai-Neutron-Planning-restored - Lines 379-421 [3] https://releases.openstack.org/victoria/schedule.html
-- Slawek Kaplonski Senior software engineer Red Hat
— Slawek Kaplonski Principal software engineer Red Hat
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