On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:09:59AM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > Hi all, > > The Debian OpenStack packagers are gathered at the annual Debian > developer event, and discussing the future of OpenStack packaging for > Debian. There's general agreement that we'd like to go ahead and package > Pike, but also agreement that we'd like to move back to the Debian > infrastructure for doing packaging work. There are a variety of reasons, > including that: > > - Using the familiar Debian workflows and infrastructure is a better way > to attract experienced Debian developers to the work, and > > - The way we set up the Debian packaging workflow on OpenStack Infra was > a temporary compromise, and not really a good fit for OpenStack Infra > (or for Debian). > > As a result of the change, we'd like to retire the Packaging Deb > project in OpenStack, and there will be no candidate running for Queens > PTL for the project. There will be some cleanup work to do, around > deb-* repos and other aspects of the Debian packaging workflow we set up > with OpenStack Infra, following the standard retirement procedures: > > https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/drivers.html#retiring-a-project > > The OpenStack installation tutorial for Debian will remain in OpenStack, > and we'll update it for Pike. > > If you have any concerns about the retirement, please let us know > (especially other distros that use .deb format packages), we'll wait a > bit for feedback before moving ahead with the cleanup. > ++ I've already gone a head a few weeks ago and stop the usptream-repo sync that was setup when packaging first started, that will make retiring projects easier.
Feel free to ping in #openstack-infra when ready, because the amount of projects that will be retired, the incoming patch will be a magnet for merge conflicts. > Thanks, > Allison > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
