Thanks, James for describing the Winstacjers project (Window support in OpenStack) situation.
I am forwarding it to openstack-announce ML also for a wider audience. Ref: https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-April/033342.html -gmann ---- On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:54:12 -0700 James Page wrote --- > Hi All > > As announced by Lucian last November (see [0]) Cloudbase Solutions are no > longer in a position to maintain support for running OpenStack on Windows > and have also ceased operation of their 3rd party CI for the windows support > across a number of OpenStack projects. > This situation has resulted in the Winstackers project becoming PTL-less for > the 2023.2 cycle with no volunteers responding to the TC's call to fill this > role and take this feature in OpenStack forward (see [1]). > This is the final call for any maintainers to step forward if this feature > is important to them in OpenStack. > The last user survey in 2022 indicated that 2% of respondents were running > on Hyper-V so this might be important enough to warrant a commitment from > someone operating OpenStack on Windows to maintain these features going > forward. > Here is a reminder from Lucian's original email on the full list of projects > which are impacted in some way: * nova hyper-v driver - in-tree plus > out-of-tree compute-hyperv driver* os-win - common Windows library for > Openstack* neutron hyperv ml2 plugin and agent* ovs on Windows and neutron > ovs agent support* cinder drivers - SMB and Windows iSCSI* os-brick Windows > connectors - iSCSI, FC, SMB, RBD* ceilometer Windows poller* manila Windows > driver* glance Windows support* freerdp gateway > The lack of 3rd party CI for testing all of this really needs to be > addressed as well. > If no maintainers are forthcoming between now and the next PTG in June the > TC will need to officially retire the project and start the process of > removing support for Windows across the various projects that support this > operating system in some way - either directly or through the use of os-win. > For clarity this call refers to the use of the Hyper-V virtualisation driver > and associated Windows server components to provide WIndows based OpenStack > Hypervisors and does not relate to the ability to run Windows images as > guests on OpenStack. > Regards > James > [0] > https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-November/031044.html[1] > > https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-March/032888.html _______________________________________________ OpenStack-announce mailing list OpenStack-announce@lists.openstack.org
