On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Tobias Urdin <tobias.ur...@crystone.com> wrote: > On 02/15/2017 01:46 PM, 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. >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > Somebody please hire Thomas, he's amazing!
Heartily seconded!! Thanks, Dims > Thank you for everything! > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims __________________________________________________________________________ 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
