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On 11/27/19 12:02 PM, Elõd Illés wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, sorry for the late response.
> 
> About EOLing Ocata and Pike: Extended Maintenance was formed just to
> have a common place for interested parties, vendors, operators, to push
> bugfixes to. Currently these branches are in a good shape, check / gate
> jobs work and as far as I see there are a couple of backports, too (not
> too many, though). So hopefully it's not a waste of efforts. Why don't
> we keep them open as long as the CI works and there are patches? Of
> course, whenever e.g. Ocata branch / CI becomes unmaintainable (zuul v3
> incompatibilities) or there aren't anyone who fixes the issues there, we
> can put it to EOL then.

Quick question: the driverfixes/mitaka and driverfixes/newton gates are 
broken now.  Do you have any interest in getting these working, or are 
you only interested in stable/ocata and stable/pike?

> I write this, because my employer supports Extended Maintenance, and I
> usually try to fix CI issues on stable branches and reviewing patches
> there.

Thanks for following this strategy, it's good for the community, and we 
appreciate it.

> So maybe I can be some help here, too. Please consider leaving
> branches in Extended Maintenance open as long as they are in a good
> shape and there are bugfixes coming.

This is good feedback.  As I said in the original email, we don't mind 
keeping these open as long as people are actually using them.  I'll put 
a proposal on this week's Cinder meeting agenda to wait to EOL ocata and 
pike until their gates break and no one steps up to fix them, instead of 
proactively EOL'ing them now.

Do let me know your position on the driverfixes branches right away, though.


thanks,
brian

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Előd
> 
> 
> On 2019. 11. 25. 20:21, Brian Rosmaita wrote:
>> This is a courtesy notice that having received no responses to my
>> email of 28 October [0] proposing to EOL some currently open Cinder
>> branches, and following the policy articulated in [1], at today's
>> Virtual PTG meeting the Cinder project team has decided to put the
>> following stable branches into the End of Life state:
>>    driverfixes/mitaka
>>    driverfixes/newton
>>    stable/ocata
>>    stable/pike
>>
>> I will submit the paperwork to get this process moving one week from
>> today (2 December 2019).
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> brian
>>
>> [0]
>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-October/010385.html
>> [1]
>> https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#end-of-life
>>
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