<html><body>That move makes sense, it eases not only maintainer effort but also makes it easier for others to contribute. Congrats!<div><br></div><div>--<br><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>/sorin</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr" style="">On 25 Feb 2021 at 17:19:22, David Moreau Simard <<a href="mailto:dmsimard@redhat.com">dmsimard@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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Hi openstack-discuss, long time no see o/<br><br>I've long dreaded doing this and sending this email out because I know<br>how the community feels about proprietary platforms and I value the<br>four opens that the OpenStack community has taught me so much about.<br><br>I've recently reached out and asked if people would be more likely to<br>contribute to ara if pull requests were possible [1] and had a number<br>of potential contributors interested.<br><br>Don't get me wrong: I still like OpenStack (have a cloud in my<br>basement!) and personally prefer the Gerrit change workflow to the one<br>on GitHub.<br>However, I've come to the conclusion that my personal preferences<br>should not be a barrier to contribution and so for the health and<br>sustainability of the project I'll move the code review for ara to<br>GitHub leveraging Ansible's Zuul deployment [2] for CI.<br><br>The truth is that ara never had many contributors and the few that<br>were interested were often discouraged by the process involved in<br>signing up and sending a change through Gerrit.<br>It broke my heart to see a pull request being automatically closed<br>with a template by an OpenStack bot.<br>It broke my heart to have to tell people that they must jump through<br>several hoops to send a patch.<br>I was forever grateful every single time that someone actually went<br>through the process and managed to get a patch merged with or without<br>my help.<br><br>For more than five years already, I've done my best to salvage these<br>contributions and ask for help but at the end of the day, most of the<br>Ansible community projects are on GitHub and it has weighed down on me<br>heavily to battle this inertia.<br>Frankly, it has been exhausting and even depressing sometimes.<br><br>I'm thankful for the OpenStack (and OpenDev) communities for hosting<br>the project until now and hope to continue talking to you on freenode<br>-- you can find me in #ara amongst many other channels.<br><br>See you around !<br><br>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/205">https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/issues/205</a><br>[2]: <a href="https://dashboard.zuul.ansible.com/t/ansible/status">https://dashboard.zuul.ansible.com/t/ansible/status</a><br><br>David Moreau Simard<br>dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]<br><br><br>
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