Very sad to hear all that.. Hopefully it’ll be sorted out one way or another.
Thanks Thomas! Renat Akhmerov @Nokia > On 15 Feb 2017, at 23:42, Doug Hellmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excerpts from Paul Belanger's message of 2017-02-15 09:51:22 -0500: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> Thanks for all your work. I'm glad we eventually stood up all the packaging >> infrastructure. >> >> Good luck on your future endeavors. >> > > Yes, thank you for everything you've done, Thomas. You have done > an immense amount of work to ensure that good quality OpenStack > packages are available to a wide user base. > > Doug > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > <http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev>
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