I agree with Dims that, it is difficult to continue with an unmaintained dependency in place like Heketi.
Being author and maintainer for glusterfs dynamic provisioner I ACK for deprecation of GlusterFS in 1.25, however regarding complete removal, I would
like to propose 1.27 release if possible . The reason being glusterfs is one of the very first dynamic provisioner which got into kube v1.4 and I still get pings
from the users on the same or there are good number of users still using it. imo, Having a couple of releases available for them to migrate ..etc would be a
good take from our community pov and also a better user experience which is important especially when we are talking about storage/data.
Based on the consensus of removal release, I will adjust the deprecation PRs .