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 ---- On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:23:41 -0600 Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at 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.

-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-repository-retirement.html
 > [5]
 > https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/repository.html#retiring-a-repository
 > 
 > -gmann
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >