[GEDI] [PATCH] docs: Mark "gluster" support in QEMU as deprecated

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 15:24 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> According to https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=171934833215726
> the GlusterFS development effectively ended. Thus mark it as
> deprecated
> in QEMU, so we can remove it in a future release if the project does
> not gain momentum again.

As a former Gluster developer/maintainer, this makes sense to me. Feel
free to add my Acked-by or equivalent signoff.

Cheers,
Niels


> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index ed31d4b0b2..b231aa3948 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -395,6 +395,15 @@ Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on
> the command line using the
>  used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that
> provides
>  a password via a file, or encrypted.
>  
> +``gluster`` backend (since 9.2)
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +
> +According to
> https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=171934833215726
> +the GlusterFS development effectively ended. Unless the development
> +gains momentum again, the QEMU project might remove the gluster
> backend
> +in a future release.
> +
> +
>  Character device options
>  ''''''''''''''''''''''''
>