Open Stack

Excerpts from Paul Belanger's message of 2017-02-15 09:51:22 -0500:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:43:46PM +0100, 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.
> > 
> Thanks for all your work. I'm glad we eventually stood up all the packaging
> infrastructure.
> 
> Good luck on your future endeavors.
> 

Yes, thank you for everything you've done, Thomas. You have done
an immense amount of work to ensure that good quality OpenStack
packages are available to a wide user base.

Doug