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On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:51 AM Markos Chandras <mchandras at suse.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 08/03/2019 16:36, Mohammed Naser wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > [...]
> > With that, I propose that we drop SUSE support this cycle.  If anyone
> > would like to volunteer to maintain it, we can review that option, but
> > that would require a serious commitment as we've had maintainers step
> > off and it hurts the velocity of the project as no one can merge code
> > anymore.
> >
>
> Yes, I apologize for that but I have changed roles within SUSE so it
> became very difficult for me to maintain it myself.

First off, no need to apologize!  Thank you so much for the help that you
put in over the past few months in order to get it working.

> However, I would suggest to keep it for this cycle (as we are almost
> done with it) hoping that someone else will be able to take care of that
> during the stabilization period.

I worry that the issue with this is that we have to maintain it for 2-3 more
cycles, as any problems that it have will still have impact in our stable
gates, so we're likely on the hook for maintaining it for 3 more cycles.

It's also quite hard for us to drop support mid-way through a release,
which is where it can get a bit hard.

> I would even suggest to move the jobs to the experimental on the next
> cycle if nobody steps up because removing (and possibly adding back in
> the future) the support in the AIO and all the roles will be just too
> much work for anyone to pick it up.
>
> Would it be a huge problem to have it as experimental-only instead of
> dropping it completely?

I think we could move the jobs to experimental.  However, I don't think
we've had much volunteers that wanted to step in to look into it.

My thought process was to somehow make the remove one big commit
within a role so all it would involve is reverting the commit that removed
the support.

The reason behind that is it would probably help simplify our roles rather
than us trying to "workaround" something that might just eventually suffer
from bitrot.

I am open to all suggestions and I'd love to hear input from the community
as well.

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