[openstack-dev] The end of OpenStack packages in Debian?

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 16:32:43 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Tobias Urdin
<tobias.urdin at crystone.com> wrote:
> On 02/15/2017 01:46 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> It's been a while since I planed on writing this message. I couldn't
>> write it because the situation makes me really sad. At this point, it
>> starts to be urgent to post it.
>>
>> As for many other folks, Mirantis decided to end its contract with me.
>> This happened when I was the most successful doing the job, with all of
>> the packaging CI moved to OpenStack infra at the end of the OpenStack
>> Newton cycle, after we were able to release Newton this way. I was
>> hoping to start packaging on every commit for Ocata. That's yet another
>> reason for me to be very frustrated about all of this. Such is life...
>>
>> Over the last few months, I hoped for having enough strengths to
>> continue my packaging work anyway, and get Ocata packages done. But
>> that's not what happened. The biggest reason for this is that I know
>> that this needs to be a full time job. And at this point, I still don't
>> know what my professional future will be. A company, in Barcelona, told
>> me I'd get hired to continue my past work of packaging OpenStack in
>> Debian, but so far, I'm still waiting for a definitive answer, so I'm
>> looking into some other opportunities.
>>
>> All this to say that, unless someone wants to hire me for it (which
>> would be the best outcome, but I fear this wont happen), or if someone
>> steps in (this seems unlikely at this point), both the packaging-deb and
>> the faith of OpenStack packages in Debian are currently compromised.
>>
>> I will continue to maintain OpenStack Newton during the lifetime of
>> Debian Stretch though, but I don't plan on doing anything more. This
>> means that maybe, Newton will be the last release of OpenStack in
>> Debian. If things continue this way, I probably will ask for the removal
>> of all OpenStack packages from Debian Sid after Stretch gets released
>> (unless I know that someone will do the work).
>>
>> As a consequence, the following projects wont get packages even in
>> Ubuntu (as they were "community maintained", which means done by me and
>> later sync into Ubuntu...):
>>
>> - congress
>> - gnocchi
>> - magnum
>> - mistral
>> - murano
>> - sahara
>> - senlin
>> - watcher
>> - zaqar
>>
>> Hopefully, Canonical will continue to maintain the other 15 (more
>> core...) projects in UCA.
>>
>> Thanks for the fish,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>> P,S: To the infra folks: please keep the packaging CI as it is, as it
>> will be useful for the lifetime of Stretch.
>>
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> Somebody please hire Thomas, he's amazing!

Heartily seconded!!

Thanks,
Dims

> Thank you for everything!
>
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