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Hey folks,

Apologies for my late response in this thread.

This topic was also discussed on IRC #openstack-lbaas on March 19 [1]. I
had some initial reservations that were clarified as we discussed the topic
further. I am supportive now of declaring the Queens release EOL.

Carlos

[1]
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-lbaas/%23openstack-lbaas.2020-03-19.log.html

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 2:44 AM Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> The Queens branch entered Extended Maintenance (EM) on August 25th,
> 2019 (later extended to October 25th, 2019 to accommodate release team
> resources[1]) and was tagged EM on November 6th, 2019.
>
> This proposal is to exit Extended Maintenance and mark the Queens
> release as End-of-Life(EOL). This is following the guidelines for
> stable branch releases[2].
>
> Currently the Octavia team is maintaining five branches and supporting
> queens is becoming more difficult as the test jobs are still based on
> the Ubuntu Xenial release (released April 21. 2016). The python 2.7
> end-of-life combined with the older OS version has made it hard to
> keep reliable test jobs[3]. Backporting patches is also becoming more
> difficult as the Octavia code base has rapidly evolved in the two
> years since it was released.
>
> If you or others are willing to help us with fixing the queens jobs
> and backporting patches, that would be great and we may be able to
> leave the queens branch in Extended Maintenance. If not, Adam is
> proposing we move it into EOL.
>
> Personally, I agree with Adam that it is time to mark the Queens
> release as EOL. Since you can run newer releases of Octavia on older
> clouds (as many do), the branch cannot release under EM, and patches
> on that branch are few.
>
> Michael
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/releases/commit/be797b61677b1eafc0162bd664f09db54287ac81#diff-8fa0a5ef8165646609d2f3d50646c597
> [2]
> https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#end-of-life
> [3]
> https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?project=openstack%2Foctavia&branch=stable%2Fqueens&pipeline=check&job_name=octavia-v2-dsvm-scenario
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:40 AM Erik McCormick
> <emccormick at cirrusseven.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 11:57 AM Adam Harwell <flux.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm officially proposing dropping support for the queens stable branch
> of Octavia.
> >> Given a quorum of cores, we will move forward with marking it EOL and
> all that entails.
> >
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > Why can't it go into EM Instead of EOL?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Erik
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>    --Adam
>
>
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