[OpenDaylight TSC] maintaining cleaner committer lists


Colin Dixon
 

Forwarding to project proposals for posterity. The version on the TSC list can be found here:
https://lists.opendaylight.org/pipermail/tsc/2016-March/004953.html

--Colin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ryan Moats <rmoats@...>
Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenDaylight TSC] maintaining cleaner committer lists
To: Colin Dixon <colin@...>
Cc: Andrew Grimberg <agrimberg@...>, "tsc@..." <tsc@...>


Colin-

That proposal text is fine.  Go with it.

Ryan

Colin Dixon <colin@...> wrote on 03/28/2016 01:24:25 PM:

> From: Colin Dixon <colin@...>

> To: Andrew Grimberg <agrimberg@...>
> Cc: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM@IBMUS, "tsc@..."
> <tsc@...>

> Date: 03/28/2016 01:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenDaylight TSC] maintaining cleaner committer lists
>


> Ryan, if it looks reasonable can you, I can send it to the project-
> proposals and tsc list to kick things off. If it's easy to have a
> vote on the opendove-dev list to approve archiving the project we
> could do it two weeks from then.
>
> Otherwise, it seems like we have to wait until April 20th and we can
> do it two weeks after that, which is May 4th.

> --Colin

>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Grimberg <
> agrimberg@...> wrote:

> Hmm... you're correct and I have to admit I jumped the gun in my
> excitement to shutdown a Jenkins silo.
>
> I'll also admit to having shutdown / destroyed said silo... given the
> issues we would have in trying to resurrect it I'm going to leave it
> dead, but if the TSC feels I really do need to go through resurrecting
> it, even though the archival looks like will probably just be a
> formality, I will.
>
> -Andy-
>
> On 03/28/2016 08:24 AM, Colin Dixon wrote:
> > Technically, we need to get an Archival Review posted, take two weeks
> > and then vote, but I have no problem starting this earlier rather than
> > later.
> >
> > --Colin
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Andrew Grimberg
> > <agrimberg@... <mailto:agrimberg@...>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Ryan,
> >
> >     Normally I would wait for a ticket for this, but given I was going to
> >     have to figure out what to do with the OpenDOVE Jenkins silo (one of the
> >     few remaining solo silos) with our transition into the private cloud
> >     I'll just take this opportunity to shut that down and move the repo to
> >     read-only :)
> >
> >     -Andy-
> >
> >     On 03/24/2016 07:31 AM, Ryan Moats wrote:
> >     > Yes, please archive openDOVE - to  the best of my knowledge
> there is no
> >     > active development on it at this time...
> >     >
> >     > Ryan
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >

> >     >     ----- Original message -----
> >     >     From: Colin Dixon <colin@... <mailto:
> colin@...>>
> >     >     To: Stephen Kitt <skitt@... <mailto:skitt@...>>
> >     >     Cc: "tsc@... <mailto:tsc@...
> >"
> >     <tsc@... <mailto:tsc@...>>, Ryan
> >     >     Moats/Omaha/IBM@IBMUS
> >     >     Subject: Re: [OpenDaylight TSC] maintaining cleaner
> committer lists
> >     >     Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2016 8:57 AM
> >     >
> >     >     The December patch for OpenDOVE [4] was from Robert and
> essentially
> >     >     a no-op, so I was going to ignore it. Also Ryan Moats
> can likely be
> >     >     turned up if need be to help in the process and I think
> would be in
> >     >     favor of archiving OpenDOVE, but I won't speak for him.
> >     >
> >     >     --Colin
> >     >
> >     >     [4] https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/13255/
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Stephen Kitt <skitt@...
> <mailto:skitt@...>
> >     >     <mailto:skitt@... <mailto:skitt@...>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >         On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:57:28 -0400
> >     >         Colin Dixon <colin@...
> >     <mailto:colin@...> <mailto:colin@...
> >     <mailto:colin@...>>>
> >     >         wrote:
> >     >         > I'm not opposed to the idea of automatic demotion as
> >     long as there's a
> >     >         > lightweight way to fix it. I agree that it might have
> >     better results
> >     >         > if the goal is to actually only have active committers.
> >     >         >
> >     >         > As far as inactive PTLs, I think the project committers
> >     can just have
> >     >         > a vote to elect a new one whenever they see fit.
> >     >
> >     >         Right, that's what I gathered later on from the PTL
> >     discussion.
> >     >
> >     >         > For projects with no active committers, we have a
> >     procedure to
> >     >         > archive them after 18 moths of inactivity. See 2.5.3 here:
> >     >         > https://www.opendaylight.org/project-lifecycle-releases
> >     >
> >     >         Thanks, that answers my question. And since release
> >     participation is
> >     >         opt-in, inactive projects can be dropped from the list of
> >     things we
> >     >         care about quite quickly...
> >     >
> >     >         > I think that makes OpenDOVE and Affinity ready to be
> >     archived. I've
> >     >         > also taken to calling it an archival review and archive
> >     proposal just
> >     >         > because I think the terminology is better and I figure
> >     we can change
> >     >         > that when/if we need to have the Board update something
> >     else in the
> >     >         > lifecycle document. You can see we've had two such
> >     reviews already:
> >     >         > https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Archive_Proposals
> >     >
> >     >         One voluntary, one involuntary, which is nice as a reference.
> >     >
> >     >         Affinity's last change was merged in May 2014, so itis indeed
> >     >         ready;
> >     >         OpenDOVE isn't quite, since its last change was merged in
> >     December
> >     >         2014.
> >     >
> >     >         Regards,
> >     >
> >     >         Stephen
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