[tc][all][karbor] Retiring the Qinling project

Kendall Nelson kennelson11 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 21:20:31 UTC 2020


There's always something I miss... sorry. The subject line should say
Karbor, nor Qinling.

Starting a new thread. Please disregard this one.

-Kendall (diablo_rojo)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:18 PM Kendall Nelson <kennelson11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> As you know, Karbor 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 Karbor repos
> except few gate fixes or community goal commits[3].
>
> Based on all these checks and no maintainer for Karbor, 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, Karbor 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 Karbor contributors and PTLs (especially Pengju Jiao) for maintaining this project.
>
> -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)
>
> [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=karbor-group&metric=commits <https://www.stackalytics.com/?release=victoria&module=qinling-group&metric=commits>
> [4] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20190711-mandatory-repository-retirement.html
> [5] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/repository.html#retiring-a-repository
>
>
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