Hello folks,
It's maybe a little late, as the elections process already have started, but I think it's worth re-opening the conversation about migrating the rpm-packaging project to a SIG.
Last time we tried this, we were stopped by bureaucracy and technical details (IIRC?) which shouldn't be there anymore. I don't see a reason why this team couldn't move to a SIG now, which would be a lightweight governance model for you. You would keep your repos, and can still propose releases (if I am not mistaken). Things shouldn't change much. You can decide to change/add chair people when you want, and don't have to sign off a PTL for 6 months at elections, which was the most concerning matter for your projects IIRC (which lead to missed elections deadlines in the past).
I hope that this SIG can evolve in the future, to group not only RPM packaging, but also other packaging mechanism that want to follow under that new banner. That's why I proposed the SIG to be named "Packaging" instead. It's up to the community now to gather around the same banner :)
So if you're interested with this change, please vote on here: [1] [2].
Regards, Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp)
[1]: https://review.opendev.org/752659 [2]: https://review.opendev.org/752661