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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:04 AM Nate Johnston <nate.johnston at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:07:12PM +0100, Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ussuri-2 milestone is behind us and we still don’t have anyone who would like to maintain neutron-fwaas project upstream.
> > So I just sent patch [1] to add info to project’s docs that it is deprecated in Neutron stadium.
> >
> > Question, to TC members mostly - should I do also some other actions to officially deprecate this project? Any changes to governance repo or something like that? Thanks in advance for any help with that.
>
> Shall we follow the same process we used for LBaaS in [1] and [2], or does that
> need to wait?

In case of LBaaS, the repository was marked as 'deprecated' when the
master branch was retired.
When neutron-lbaas was deprecated (in the master branch), no change
happened in the governance side.

> I think there is a good chance we will not see another release of
> neutron-fwaas code.

I also would like to note that 'deprecation' does not mean we stop new releases.
neutron-lbaas continued to cut releases even after the deprecation is enabled.
IIRC neutron-lbaas was marked as deprecated Jan 2018 around the queens
release and it was released till Stein.
neutron-fwaas is being marked as deprecated, so I think we still need
to release it until neutron-fwaas was retired in the master branch.

Thanks,
Akihiro

>
> Thanks
>
> Nate
>
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/705780/
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/658493/
>
> > [1] https://review.opendev.org/708675
> >
> > > On 20 Jan 2020, at 21:26, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are getting closer and closer to Ussuri-2 milestone which is our deadline to deprecate neutron-fwaas project if there will be no any volunteers to maintain this project.
> > > So if You are interested in this project, please raise Your hand here or ping me on IRC about that.
> > >
> > >> On 6 Jan 2020, at 21:05, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Just as a reminder, we are still looking for maintainers who want to keep neutron-fwaas project alive. As it was written in my previous email, we will mark this project as deprecated.
> > >> So please reply to this email or contact me directly if You are interested in maintaining this project.
> > >>
> > >>> On 19 Nov 2019, at 11:26, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> Over the past couple of cycles we have noticed that new contributions and
> > >>> maintenance efforts for neutron-fwaas project were almost non existent.
> > >>> This impacts patches for bug fixes, new features and reviews. The Neutron
> > >>> core team is trying to at least keep the CI of this project healthy, but we
> > >>> don’t have enough knowledge about the details of the neutron-fwaas
> > >>> code base to review more complex patches.
> > >>>
> > >>> During the PTG in Shanghai we discussed that with operators and TC members
> > >>> during the forum session [1] and later within the Neutron team during the
> > >>> PTG session [2].
> > >>>
> > >>> During these discussions, with the help of operators and TC members, we reached
> > >>> the conclusion that we need to have someone responsible for maintaining project.
> > >>> This doesn’t mean that the maintainer needs to spend full time working on this
> > >>> project. Rather, we need someone to be the contact person for the project, who
> > >>> takes care of the project’s CI and review patches. Of course that’s only a
> > >>> minimal requirement. If the new maintainer works on new features for the
> > >>> project, it’s even better :)
> > >>>
> > >>> If we don’t have any new maintainer(s) before milestone Ussuri-2, which is
> > >>> Feb 10 - Feb 14 according to [3], we will need to mark neutron-fwaas
> > >>> as deprecated and in “V” cycle we will propose to move the project
> > >>> from the Neutron stadium, hosted in the “openstack/“ namespace, to the
> > >>> unofficial projects hosted in the “x/“ namespace.
> > >>>
> > >>> So if You are using this project now, or if You have customers who are
> > >>> using it, please consider the possibility of maintaining it. Otherwise,
> > >>> please be aware that it is highly possible that the project will be
> > >>> deprecated and moved out from the official OpenStack projects.
> > >>>
> > >>> [1]
> > >>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-Neutron-stadium-projects-the-path-forward
> > >>> [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Shanghai-Neutron-Planning-restored -
> > >>> Lines 379-421
> > >>> [3] https://releases.openstack.org/ussuri/schedule.html
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Slawek Kaplonski
> > >>> Senior software engineer
> > >>> Red Hat
> > >>
> > >> —
> > >> Slawek Kaplonski
> > >> Senior software engineer
> > >> Red Hat
> > >>
> > >
> > > —
> > > Slawek Kaplonski
> > > Senior software engineer
> > > Red Hat
> > >
> >
> > —
> > Slawek Kaplonski
> > Senior software engineer
> > Red Hat
> >
> >
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