Hi As of today, the project neutron-vpnaas is no longer part of the neutron governance. This was a decision reached after the project saw a dramatic drop in active development over a prolonged period of time.
What does this mean in practice? - From a visibility point of view, release notes and documentation will no longer appear on openstack.org as of Ocata going forward. - No more releases will be published by the neutron release team. - The neutron team will stop proposing fixes for the upstream CI, if not solely on a voluntary basis (e.g. I still felt like proposing [2]). How does it affect you, the user or the deployer? - You can continue to use vpnaas and its CLI via the python-neutronclient and expect it to work with neutron up until the newton release/python-neutronclient 6.0.0. After this point, if you want a release that works for Ocata or newer, you need to proactively request a release [5], and reach out to a member of the neutron release team [3] for approval. Assuming that the vpnaas CI is green, you can expect to have a working vpnaas system upon release of its package in the foreseeable future. - Outstanding bugs and new bug reports will be rejected on the basis of lack of engineering resources interested in helping out in the typical OpenStack review workflow. - Since we are freezing the development of the neutron CLI in favor of the openstack unified client (OSC), the lack of a plan to make the VPN commands available in the OSC CLI means that at some point in the future the neutron client CLI support for vpnaas may be dropped (though I don't expect this to happen any time soon). Can this be reversed? - If you are interested in reversing this decision, now it is time to step up. That said, we won't be reversing the decision for Ocata. There is quite a curve to ramp up to make neutron-vpnaas worthy of being classified as a neutron stadium project, and that means addressing all the gaps identified in [6]. If you are interested, please reach out, and I will work with you to add your account to [4], so that you can drive the neutron-vpnaas agenda going forward. Please do not hesitate to reach out to ask questions and/or clarifications. Cheers, Armando [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/392010/ [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397924/ [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/150,members [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/502,members [5] https://github.com/openstack/releases [6] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/stadium/ocata/neutron-vpnaas.html
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