Re: Archiving PVOPS and Xen on ARM as stand-alone subprojects

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:55:38PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was wondering how the community feels if we retired
> 
>  * http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/pvops.html
>  * http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/arm-hypervisor.html
> 
> as stand-alone subprojects of the Xen Projects in line
> withttp://xenproject.org/governance.html (see
> http://xenproject.org/governance.html - Archivation Review). I had already
> discussed with Stefano and Konrad and they believe this is a good idea. I
> have also raised the at the last Advisory Board meeting and the feedback was
> that this is a good, idea if we craft the messaging around this correctly as
> to not to cause confusion.
> 
> Why Archive these subprojects?
> * The goal of both subprojects was to establish Xen support in Linux and ARM
> support in the Hypervisor in the upstream projects
> * This clearly has been achieved, so it is not necessary any more to keep
> these around as separate supbrojects
> * Xen support is firmly established as part of Linux kernel releases
> * ARM support is firmly established as part of the Hypervisor
> 
> What does it NOT mean?
> * Development of Xen in Linux would not stop - we merely treat it as part of
> upstream development (which is what we have de-facto today)
> * Development of Xen on ARM would not stop - we merely treat it as part of
> upstream development (which again is the de-facto status today)
> * We already retired separate mailing lists and PR tends to be handled as
> part of the upstream development. The main impact is that two xenproject.org
> pages would either disappear, become smaller or become merged with (or
> subpages) of http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html
> 
> What are the next step?
> * Consultation (this mail)
> * Make an archivation proposal
> * Formal vote
> * Craft a positive messaging as part of a momentum press release : the
> message would be that we are making progress, that our governance model
> works and we can tie it up with the creation of say the PV driver project.
> In other words, the project is evolving and addressing issues.
> 
> Any views?

+1 on archiving it.

> 
> Best Regards
> Lars
>