Greetings, I'm sending this email on behalf of Marconi's team.
As you already know, we submitted our graduation request a couple of weeks ago and the meeting was held on Tuesday, March 18th. During the meeting very important questions and issues were raised that made us think and analyse our current situation and re-think about what the best for OpenStack and Marconi would be in this very moment. After some considerations, we've reached the conclusion that this is probably not the right time for this project to graduate and that it'll be fruitful for the project and the OpenStack community if we take another development cycle before coming out from incubation. Here are some things we took under consideration: 1. It's still not clear to the overall community what the goals of the project are. It is not fair for Marconi as a project nor for OpenStack as a community to move forward with this integration when there are still open questions about the project goals. 2. Some critical issues came out of our attempt to have a gate job. For the team, the project and the community this is a very critical point. We've managed to have the gate working but we're still not happy with the results. 3. The drivers currently supported by the project don't cover some important cases related to deploying it. One of them solves a licensing issue but introduces a scale issue whereas the other one solves the scale issue and introduces a licensing issue. Moreover, these drivers have created quite a confusion with regards to what the project goal's are too. 4. We've seen the value - and believe in it - of OpenStack's incubation period. During this period, the project has gained maturity in its API, supported drivers and integration with the overall community. 5. Several important questions were brought up in the recent ML discussions. These questions take time, effort but also represent a key point in the support, development and integration of the project with the rest of OpenStack. We'd like to dedicate to this questions the time they deserve. 6. There are still some open questions in the OpenStack community related to the graduation requirements and the required supported technologies of integrated projects. Based on the aforementioned points, the team would like to withdraw the graduation request and remain an incubated project for one more development cycle. During the upcoming months, the team will focus on solving the issues that arose as part of last Tuesday's meeting. If possible, we would like to request a meeting where we can discuss with the TC - and whoever wants to participate - a set of *most pressing issues* that should be solved before requesting another graduation meeting. The team will be focused on solving those issues and other issues down that road. Although the team believes in the project's technical maturity, we think this is what is best for OpenStack and the project itself community-wise. The open questions are way too important for the team and the community and they shouldn't be ignored nor rushed. I'd also like to thank the team and the overall community. The team for its hard work during the last cycle and the community for being there and providing such important feedback in this process. We look forward to see Marconi graduating from incubation. Bests, Marconi's team. -- @flaper87 Flavio Percoco
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