I'd like to add that Thomas makes the best openstack packages by far. He's been a force of nature in packaging and his attention to detail is second to none.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Haïkel <hgue...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > 2017-02-15 13:42 GMT+01:00 Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr>: > > Hi there, > > > > It's been a while since I planed on writing this message. I couldn't > > write it because the situation makes me really sad. At this point, it > > starts to be urgent to post it. > > > > As for many other folks, Mirantis decided to end its contract with me. > > This happened when I was the most successful doing the job, with all of > > the packaging CI moved to OpenStack infra at the end of the OpenStack > > Newton cycle, after we were able to release Newton this way. I was > > hoping to start packaging on every commit for Ocata. That's yet another > > reason for me to be very frustrated about all of this. Such is life... > > > > Over the last few months, I hoped for having enough strengths to > > continue my packaging work anyway, and get Ocata packages done. But > > that's not what happened. The biggest reason for this is that I know > > that this needs to be a full time job. And at this point, I still don't > > know what my professional future will be. A company, in Barcelona, told > > me I'd get hired to continue my past work of packaging OpenStack in > > Debian, but so far, I'm still waiting for a definitive answer, so I'm > > looking into some other opportunities. > > > > All this to say that, unless someone wants to hire me for it (which > > would be the best outcome, but I fear this wont happen), or if someone > > steps in (this seems unlikely at this point), both the packaging-deb and > > the faith of OpenStack packages in Debian are currently compromised. > > > > I will continue to maintain OpenStack Newton during the lifetime of > > Debian Stretch though, but I don't plan on doing anything more. This > > means that maybe, Newton will be the last release of OpenStack in > > Debian. If things continue this way, I probably will ask for the removal > > of all OpenStack packages from Debian Sid after Stretch gets released > > (unless I know that someone will do the work). > > > > As a consequence, the following projects wont get packages even in > > Ubuntu (as they were "community maintained", which means done by me and > > later sync into Ubuntu...): > > > > - congress > > - gnocchi > > - magnum > > - mistral > > - murano > > - sahara > > - senlin > > - watcher > > - zaqar > > > > Hopefully, Canonical will continue to maintain the other 15 (more > > core...) projects in UCA. > > > > Thanks for the fish, > > > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > > > > P,S: To the infra folks: please keep the packaging CI as it is, as it > > will be useful for the lifetime of Stretch. > > > > I'm sad to hear that as a fellow packager. > You've been a driving force for Debian packaging and improving > OpenStack since its early days. > Your work has helped many people to use OpenStack on Debian and > derived effectively. I hope > that you'll find asap a sponsorship or a dayjob to keep going. > > Regards, > H. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > ______________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject: > unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Openstack-devel mailing list > openstack-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-devel >