Hi, Thanks for the advice. The intention from the Neutron team was to make it clear that the team currently has no capacity to help the maintenance of neutron-fwaas, and can't help to maintain it. If there's easier ways for volunteers to keep it maintained other than forking it to x/ namespace that would be really helpful. Lajos Katona (lajoskatona) Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. jan. 18., K, 18:58):
On 2022-01-18 10:49:48 -0600 (-0600), Ghanshyam Mann wrote: [...]
As discussed in project-config change[1], you or neutron folks can propose the retirement now itself (considering there is no one to maintain/release stable/victoria for new bug fixes) and TC will merge it as per process. After that, creating it in x/ namespace will be good to do. [...]
Looking at this from a logistical perspective, it's a fair amount of churn in code hosting as well as unwelcoming to the new volunteers, compared to just leaving the repository where it is now and letting them contribute to it there. If the concern is that the Neutron team doesn't want to retain responsibility for it while they evaluate the conviction of the new maintainers for eventual re-inclusion, then the TC would be well within its rights to declare that the repository can remain in place while not having it be part of the Neutron team's responsibilities.
There are a number of possible solutions, ranging from making a new category of provisional deliverable, to creating a lightweight project team under the DPL model, to declaring it a pop-up team with a TC-owned repository. There are repositories within the OpenStack namespace which are not an official part of the OpenStack coordinated release, after all. Solutions which don't involve having the new work take place somewhere separate, and the work involved in making that separate place, which will simply be closed down as transient cruft if everything goes as desired. -- Jeremy Stanley