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Hi,

First of all, sorry for the late response. I've checked what is the 
current state of Octavia according to *openstack/releases* repository 
and it seems even Ocata is not yet EOL'd. As far as I see from the 
discussion, the Team wants to move Queens and Pike to EOL. I suggest to 
do it branch by branch, so as a first step please EOL Ocata with the 
steps described in Stable Branches page [1]. If that is ready, then do 
the same for Pike, and then Queens. If you have any question feel free 
to ping me on IRC (elod @ #openstack-stable or #openstack-releases) and 
I'll try to help you.

Note: Extended Maintenance helps operators / interested parties with 
having a common place where they can cooperate and push (backport) 
bugfixes to ease everyone's work. As long as there are someone (in best 
case: more people) who comes and fixes bugs and maintains the CI, the 
"EM" branches can be kept open. (To keep the CI functional, it is 
usually easier if it is done regularly with small fixes, when something 
failure comes in). Of course, if there are no volunteer, who fixes the 
gate failures and a branch becomes "Unmaintained" for ~6 months, then it 
should be EOL'd. Sorry if this was obvious, just wanted to have it here :)

Thanks,

Előd

[1] 
https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#end-of-life


On 2020. 04. 05. 13:19, Carlos Goncalves wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:emccormick at cirrusseven.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 11:57 AM Adam Harwell <flux.adam at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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