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 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
