---- On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:26:58 -0600 Ghanshyam Mann <gmann@ghanshyammann.com> wrote ----
---- On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:23:41 -0600 Stephen Finucane <stephenfin@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%20...) -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-repositor... [5] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/repository.html#retiring-a-rep...
-gmann