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 ---- On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:26:58 -0600 Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com> wrote ----
 >  ---- On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:23:41 -0600 Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at redhat.com> wrote ----
 >  > On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 13:16 -0600, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 >  > Hello Everyone,
 >  > 
 >  > As you know, Qinling is a leaderless project for the Wallaby cycle,
 >  > which means there is no PTL
 >  > candidate to lead it in the Wallaby cycle. 'No PTL' and no liaisons for
 >  > DPL model is one of the criteria
 >  > which triggers TC to start checking the health, maintainers of the
 >  > project for dropping the project
 >  > from OpenStack Governance[1].
 >  > 
 >  > TC discussed the leaderless project in PTG[2] and checked if the
 >  > project has maintainers and what
 >  > activities are done in the Victoria development cycle. It seems no
 >  > functional changes in Qinling repos
 >  > except few gate fixes or community goal commits[3].
 >  > 
 >  > Based on all these checks and no maintainer for Qinling, TC decided to
 >  > drop this project from OpenStack
 >  > governance in the Wallaby cycle.  Ref: Mandatory Repository Retirement
 >  > resolution [4] and the detailed process
 >  > is in the project guide docs [5].
 >  > 
 >  > If your organization product/customer use/rely on this project then
 >  > this is the right time to step forward to
 >  > maintain it otherwise from the Wallaby cycle, Qinling will move out of
 >  > OpenStack governance by keeping
 >  > their repo under OpenStack namespace with an empty master branch with
 >  > 'Not Maintained' message in README.
 >  > If someone from old or new maintainers shows interest to continue its
 >  > development then it can be re-added
 >  > to OpenStack governance. 
 >  > 
 >  > With that thanks to Qinling contributors and PTLs (especially lxkong )
 >  > for maintaining this project.
 >  > 
 >  > No comments on the actual retirement, but don't forget that someone
 >  > from the Foundation will need to update the OpenStack Map available at
 >  > https://www.openstack.org/openstack-map and included on
 >  > https://www.openstack.org/software/.
 > 
 > Yes, that is part of removing the dependencies/usage of the retiring projects step.

Updates:

Most of the retirement patches are merged now (next is to merge the project-config and governance patch), please
merge all the dependencies removal patches to avoid any break in respective project gate/features.
 
https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22retire-qinling%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)

-gmann

 > 
 > -gmann
 > 
 >  > 
 >  > Stephen
 >  > 
 >  > [1]
 >  > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/dropping-projects.html
 >  > [2] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tc-wallaby-ptg
 >  > [3]
 >  > https://www.stackalytics.com/?release=victoria&module=qinling-group&metric=commits
 >  > [4]
 >  > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20190711-mandatory-repository-retirement.html
 >  > [5]
 >  > https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/repository.html#retiring-a-repository
 >  > 
 >  > -gmann
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > 
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