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{"/PATCHSET_LEVEL":[{"author":{"_account_id":16643,"name":"Goutham Pacha Ravi","email":"gouthampravi@gmail.com","username":"gouthamr"},"change_message_id":"009bc6bb20b9686811f268333b8f19d68dbf3a1c","unresolved":false,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"4239571e_9c0c46ac","updated":"2025-09-23 19:02:53.000000000","message":"Hi @felipe.reyes@canonical.com thank you for nominating yourself as PTL. I wanted to relay a few questions for the OpenStack TC:\n\n1) Can you share the maintenance status of the \"OpenStack Charms\" project? Is there an active core team? How is this project related to Sunbeam?\n\n2) I see that the charms repositories don\u0027t have branches aligning to OpenStack releases, instead, it appears they\u0027re tracking various versions of Ubuntu: https://review.opendev.org/admin/repos/openstack/charm-nova-compute,branches\n\nThis isn\u0027t a concern, I was wondering if there\u0027s a maintenance note on individual branches?\n\n3) Where can one chat with the OpenStack Charms maintainers? We\u0027ve tried contacting you via Gerrit changes, the openstack-discuss Mailing List - but, we do hope to streamline communication to a wider team if possible - do you have a public chat someplace?\n\n4) There seem to be ~145 repositories listed under the Charms project. Does this seem accurate to you? Are all of these actively maintained? Are there any on the path to retirement?\n\nThank you!","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":16643,"name":"Goutham Pacha Ravi","email":"gouthampravi@gmail.com","username":"gouthamr"},"change_message_id":"11ef85a7db9750f29112f96f3010520c143c9909","unresolved":false,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"a0127c65_d4190d39","updated":"2025-09-30 18:35:21.000000000","message":"Thank you again for stepping up, @felipe.reyes@canonical.com","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":2424,"name":"Felipe Reyes","email":"felipe.reyes@canonical.com","username":"freyes"},"change_message_id":"dd0a03dee1b6b18a29eb298ebc44df7b752ae430","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"34526c27_ba5dd045","in_reply_to":"272bf81d_d43a31e9","updated":"2025-09-26 18:51:51.000000000","message":"it is public, maybe there was a transient issue. I do know there are some spam related rules, because at some point there were a lot of bots spamming channels and direct messages.","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":13252,"name":"Dr. Jens Harbott","display_name":"Jens Harbott (frickler)","email":"frickler@offenerstapel.de","username":"jrosenboom"},"change_message_id":"c10fd3b0a4e8b97765d27bf6b14b618f1eb5656d","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"38e5c60b_df52a54f","in_reply_to":"34526c27_ba5dd045","updated":"2025-09-30 17:48:47.000000000","message":"\u003e \"OpenStack Charms\" is active and fully supported, all users keep receiving bug fixes for the released versions. The last release was to support OpenStack 2024.1 (Caracal) on Jammy, support for newer versions have only enabled in our master branch and we have no plans on releasing new versions, because Sunbeam is successor.\n\ncan you expand a bit on this? you are not doing releases from master anymore? and 2024.1 is going to transition to unmaintained from our upstream policy right after the 2025.2 release, do I understand this correctly that you want to keep maintaining this release (and some older ones? which are?)?","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":2424,"name":"Felipe Reyes","email":"felipe.reyes@canonical.com","username":"freyes"},"change_message_id":"aae7e27917ce330f3347e665243f08030b878b7e","unresolved":false,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"aa644236_abe45c46","in_reply_to":"4239571e_9c0c46ac","updated":"2025-09-24 00:38:16.000000000","message":"Hi,\n\nAnswering inline.\n\n\u003e 1) Can you share the maintenance status of the \"OpenStack Charms\" project? Is there an active core team? How is this project related to Sunbeam?\n\n\"OpenStack Charms\" is active and fully supported, all users keep receiving bug fixes for the released versions. The last release was to support OpenStack 2024.1 (Caracal) on Jammy, support for newer versions have only enabled in our master branch and we have no plans on releasing new versions, because Sunbeam is successor.\n\n\u003e 2) I see that the charms repositories don\u0027t have branches aligning to OpenStack releases, instead, it appears they\u0027re tracking various versions of Ubuntu: https://review.opendev.org/admin/repos/openstack/charm-nova-compute,branches\n\nBranches with the format stable/YY.MM (e.g. stable/19.10) are old, and it was the way we used to version the charms, we started using OpenStack codenames with queens.\n\nSomething we should probably do is to mark old branches as EOL (tag them and delete them, or push a commit that deletes everything and leaves a README indicating the branch is EOL).\n\n\n\u003e 3) Where can one chat with the OpenStack Charms maintainers? We\u0027ve tried contacting you via Gerrit changes, the openstack-discuss Mailing List - but, we do hope to streamline communication to a wider team if possible - do you have a public chat someplace?\n\nWe\u0027ve been using Matrix mainly ( https://matrix.to/#/%23openstack-charms%3Aubuntu.com?via\u003dubuntu.com\u0026via\u003dmatrix.org\u0026via\u003dfedora.im ), although I haven\u0027t been reachable in IRC and mailing as I should have been, this is on me, and I will address this. I\u0027m sorry for the extra burden and uncertainty that this has produced on the TC.\n\n\u003e 4) There seem to be ~145 repositories listed under the Charms project. Does this seem accurate to you? Are all of these actively maintained? Are there any on the path to retirement?\n\nIt is accurate, and all of them produce an artifact that it\u0027s actively used, some of them have less users, since they are used in not so common setup. We learned the lesson, hence Sunbeam is using a monorepo approach to host the charms ( https://opendev.org/openstack/sunbeam-charms/ )\n\nWe have discussed the idea of collapsing all those repos into a single one (or just a few), although we have agreed the risk involved and the amount of work outweigh the benefits perceived by this change. \n\nPlease, let me know if you need me to elaborate more on any of the answers.\n\nThanks,","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":16643,"name":"Goutham Pacha Ravi","email":"gouthampravi@gmail.com","username":"gouthamr"},"change_message_id":"e5cccab41c126f23d8f733f9da6f3f9984a54359","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"272bf81d_d43a31e9","in_reply_to":"68eb508b_0fa4ad9f","updated":"2025-09-26 16:46:56.000000000","message":"I was able to join the room finally; ty if you had to fix up permissions for it! :)\n\nWill leave this thread unresolved until we\u0027ve enough votes to merge this","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"},{"author":{"_account_id":16643,"name":"Goutham Pacha Ravi","email":"gouthampravi@gmail.com","username":"gouthamr"},"change_message_id":"3d29ffcaef7495e3de94447c524676f74d7dbbf6","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[],"source_content_type":"","patch_set":1,"id":"68eb508b_0fa4ad9f","in_reply_to":"aa644236_abe45c46","updated":"2025-09-24 21:47:20.000000000","message":"Thank you for the responses:\n\n\u003e We\u0027ve been using Matrix mainly ( https://matrix.to/#/%23openstack-charms%3Aubuntu.com?via\u003dubuntu.com\u0026via\u003dmatrix.org\u0026via\u003dfedora.im ), although I haven\u0027t been reachable in IRC and mailing as I should have been, this is on me, and I will address this. I\u0027m sorry for the extra burden and uncertainty that this has produced on the TC.\n\nI was unable to join the channel. Is it channel publicly accessible? \n\n\u003e We have discussed the idea of collapsing all those repos into a single one (or just a few), although we have agreed the risk involved and the amount of work outweigh the benefits perceived by this change.\n\nNo problem - the suggestion was to clean up anything that\u0027s not actively developed, but, definitely not a problem keeping as many repositories that are useful.","commit_id":"0df4f6afa2eea090527107fdd5985f3423c1d932"}]}