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Emerging and inactive projects
As a community we want to be inclusive for new projects under the
OpenStack umbrella. This, however, isn't that easy as each project needs
to fit many requirements (see new-projects-requirements for more details) and that
can be sometimes hard for new projects.
In order to grow a new project team within OpenStack, we want to accept them into the OpenStack space when they have code that's functional enough to indicate what it is they want to accomplish, but at the same time we need to be clear to OpenStack consumers that such a project is not yet ready to be run in production due to factors such as the code repository not structured according to OpenStack standards, functionality is missing, etc.
It may also happen for already existing official OpenStack projects that they may not be so active anymore, they may not be able to do release on time or have broken testing or not merge incoming patches for long time.
In order to solve the above problems, there is
Emerging technology state for such new projects and
inactive state for existing projects that are not so active
anymore. TC will keep working on such projects to make them consistent
with OpenStack or try to transition inactive projects to active. TC
might not be able to solve these problems but we will try to keep eyes
on such projects and give our best effort to make them active.
Emerging technology is a state which can be set for new
OpenStack projects. The state of inactive can be set for
existing projects that aren't well maintained due to lack of maintainers
or active contribution.
Entry criteria
If a new project wants to become an official OpenStack project, but
it does not fit all requirements for new official projects (see new-projects-requirements for
details) TC can consider to add such project to the OpenStack projects
as Emerging technology.
For existing projects which became inactive due to lack of
maintainers and are not able to do the mandatory activities, such as
release, fix testing, review incoming code, etc., TC can consider
marking such projects as inactive, try to solve the problem
if we can but keep it in the official OpenStack projects list instead of
deprecating and removing it immediately (see dropping-projects for more
details).
Exit criteria
A project can exit the Emerging technology or
inactive state by either becoming an active OpenStack
project or by becoming a retired project.
A project is considered active when it meets all the requirements to
be an OpenStack official project, which are described in new-projects-requirements. In
particular, there must be a sufficient number of active maintainers to
perform all the basic activities of OpenStack official projects.
A project may be retired by the TC if it does not complete the work required to become an active project within the timeline defined below.
Timeline
A new project must become an active OpenStack project before the
third OpenStack coordinated release after the project has entered
Emerging Technology status. For example, a project became
OpenStack Emerging technology project in Yoga cycle then
timeline for them is BB (after two releases, Zed and AA). In BB
development cycle such project should meet all requirements for a new
project listed in new-projects-requirements to stay as an official
OpenStack project. If project is not able to become an official
OpenStack project within that timeframe, TC will discuss with the team
if more time is required for the project to meet the new-projects-requirements or
will retire the project.
An existing project should be reinstated as an active OpenStack
project before the final release of the cycle they entered the
inactive state to be become active again and
to be released in that cycle. In the case where an inactive
project does not become active before the end of the cycle,
there will be no release of it proposed by the release team in that
cycle. In such a case it is up to the project itself to get CI working
and propose a release if that is needed. It may be required like that
for example when there will be some security fixes or compatibility
fixes merged in the project. In the case where an inactive
project still does not become active during the next cycle
after the cycle they entered the inactive state, TC will
discuss with the team if project will be retired before final release in
the release cycle. In such a case there will be no new releases of that
project.
Tracking
At the end of each cycle, TC will evaluate this list of the
Emerging technology and inactive projects and
based on the timeline checks if any of them can become active or if it
maybe should be retired. Any addition or removal of projects in this
list will require a formal-vote.
Current Emerging Technology Projects
- Skyline (Added in Zed cycle)
Current Inactive Projects
<TC will manage the inactive projects here>.