Hi folks The move to replace ORTE with PRRTE is now ready to go (the OSHMEM team needs to fix something in that project). This means that all further development activity and/or PRs involving ORTE should be transferred to the PRRTE project (https://github.com/openpmix/prrte). Existing PRs that reference ORTE should remove all such references, transferring any relevant ORTE changes to PRRTE. You may still get some conflicts in the non-ORTE areas as we "purged" all runtime references from the MPI layer in favor of PMIx, but they should be relatively simple to resolve.
I'll be marking a few PRs that have changes we either already have made in PRRTE or that I will carry across myself (very few of those). We will be discussing the commit schedule for the ORTE-replacement PR (https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/pull/7202) at the next telecon the first week of January. Expectation is that we will make the commit rather soon as the debugger community needs it for their development efforts in support of OMPI 5.0 coming summer 2020. Ralph