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Hi,

Thx for this question Johannes and this Akihiro for Your feedback.
We were discussion this during our last drivers meeting [1].
We agreed there to keep neutron-fwaas api definition in neutron-lib as an
official API. But we will highlight in api-ref that Neutron don't provides any
official implementation of this API.
That way we can keep support for it e.g. OSC or SDK.

[1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/neutron_drivers/2020/neutron_drivers.2020-06-19-14.00.log.html#l-126

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:55:39PM +0900, Akihiro Motoki wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:19 PM Johannes Kulik <johannes.kulik at sap.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/16/20 12:46 PM, Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In Shanghai PTG we agreed that due to lack of maintainers of neutron-fwaas
> > > project we are going to deprecate it in neutron stadium in Ussuri cycle.
> > > Since then we asked couple of times about volunteers who would like to maintain
> > > this project but unfortunatelly there is still lack of such maintainers.
> > > So now, as we are already in Victoria cycle, I just proposed serie of patches
> > > [1] to remove master branch of neutron-fwaas and neutron-fwaas-dashboard from
> > > the neutron stadium. Stable branches will be still there and can be maintained
> > > but there will be no any code in master branch and there will be no new releases
> > > of those 2 projects in Victoria.
> > >
> > > If You are using this project and wants to maintain it, You can respin it in x/
> > > namespace if needed.
> > >
> > > Feel free to ping me on IRC (slaweq) or by email if You would have any questions
> > > about that.
> > >
> > > [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:retire-neutron-fwaas+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > with neutron-fwaas gone, what will happen to the APIs for fwaas? Will
> > they get deprecated, too, at some point in time?
> >
> > We have a plan to use those APIs in our custom ml2/l3 drivers. Would
> > that still make sense with neutron-fwaas out of the picture?
> 
> neutron-fwaas removal (and deprecation in Ussuri release) applies all
> stuffs related to neutron-fwaas
> including the API and the database plugin layer which provides driver interface.
> It is not specific to neutron-fwaas reference implementation.
> Even for API and DB layer, we cannot guarantee that the API and DB
> layer work well
> without a working implementation.
> 
> We the neutron team called for the maintainer for neutron-fwaas
> several times during Ussuri cycle
> but nobody volunteered for it, and we believe we had enough time to
> communicate with the community.
> 
> Thanks,
> Akihiro Motoki (irc: amotoki)
> 
> 
> >
> > Have a nice day,
> > Johannes
> >
> > --
> > Johannes Kulik
> > IT Architecture Senior Specialist
> > *SAP SE *| Rosenthaler Str. 30 | 10178 Berlin | Germany
> >
> >
> 

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Slawek Kaplonski
Senior software engineer
Red Hat