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

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 06/27/2014 03:55 PM, 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 for archiving


Juergen


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