Comment 172 for bug 1996188

Bjoern: There should be no expectations where extended maintenance[*] branches are concerned. Projects can voluntarily leave their branches open when they reach the extended maintenance phase, in order to facilitate collaboration between interested community members (typically package maintainers for distributions providing downstream support for those versions). If you are interested in supplying a backport to stable/rocky, please push it into Gerrit for reviewing.

Also, be aware that a proposal[**] has already been floated to close stable/rocky on all projects, so there may not be much time left to get patches merged there if you have them.

[*] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#extended-maintenance

[**] https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-January/031922.html