The release page says Ocata is planned to go into extended maintenance mode on Aug 27 [1]. There really isn't much to this except it means we don't do releases for Ocata anymore [2]. There is a caveat that project teams that do not wish to maintain stable/ocata after this point can immediately end of life the branch for their project [3]. We can still run CI using tags, e.g. if keystone goes ocata-eol, devstack on stable/ocata can still continue to install from stable/ocata for nova and the ocata-eol tag for keystone. Having said that, if there is no undue burden on the project team keeping the lights on for stable/ocata, I would recommend not tagging the stable/ocata branch end of life at this point. So, questions that need answering are: 1. Should we cut a final release for projects with stable/ocata branches before going into extended maintenance mode? I tend to think "yes" to flush the queue of backports. In fact, [3] doesn't mention it, but the resolution said we'd tag the branch [4] to indicate it has entered the EM phase. 2. Are there any projects that would want to skip EM and go directly to EOL (yes this feels like a Monopoly question)? [1] https://releases.openstack.org/ [2] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#maintenance-phases [3] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#extended-maintenance [4] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20180301-stable-branch-eol.html#end-of-life -- Thanks, Matt