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On 29-05-20 08:17:16, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
>  ---- On Fri, 29 May 2020 07:54:05 -0500 Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com> wrote ----
>  > On 5/29/20 6:34 AM, Előd Illés wrote:
>  > > [snip]
>  > >
>  > > TL;DR: If it's not feasible to fix a general issue of a job, then drop
>  > > that job. And I think we should not EOL Ocata in general, rather let
>  > > projects EOL their ocata branch if they cannot invest more time on
>  > > fixing them.
>  > 
>  > The interdependency is the trick here. Some projects can easily EOL on
>  > their own and it's isolated enough that it doesn't cause issues. But for
>  > other projects, like Cinder and Nova that I mentioned, it's kind of an
>  > all-or-nothing situation.
>  > 
>  > I suppose it is feasible that we drop testing to only running unit
>  > tests. If we don't run any kind of integration testing, then it does
>  > make these projects a little more independent.
>  > 
>  > We still have the requirements issues though. Unless someone addresses
>  > any rot in the stable requirements, even unit tests become hard to run.
>  > 
>  > Just thinking out loud on some of the issues I see. We can try to follow
>  > the original EM plan and leave it up to each project to declare their
>  > intent to go EOL, then tag ocata-eol to close it out. Or we can
>  > collectively decide Ocata is done and pull the big switch.
> 
> From the stable policy if CI has broken nd no maintainer then we can move that
> to unmaintained. And there is always time to revert back to EM if the maintainer shows up.
> 
> IMO, maintaining only with unit tests is not a good idea.
> 
> I have not heard from projects that they are interested to maintain it, if any then we can see
> how to proceed otherwise collectively marking Ocata as Unmaintained is the right thing.

Yup agreed, I'm going to be proposing that we move stable/ocata to
unmaintained for openstack/nova at least FWIW, we haven't seen anything
of value land there in the last three months:

https://review.opendev.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova+branch:stable/ocata

Cheers,

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Lee Yarwood                 A5D1 9385 88CB 7E5F BE64  6618 BCA6 6E33 F672 2D76
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