Hi Kurt, Speaking for myself only, I would like to see xCAT continue on with a new set of maintainers. However, maintaining xCAT requires effort, and I want to make sure that any new team that forms to take over responsibility for the project has a good chance of success.
A few xCAT contributors have indicated they are interested in helping to keep the project going here: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7405 I have also discussed this privately with some other xCAT contributors that have indicated they could potentially assist the project going forward. A viable proposal would need to include 6+ people who have been actively using, contributing to, or maintaining xCAT for a few years. Ideally everyone in the group would be using xCAT regularly in a professional capacity. Having formal organizational backing would be a huge asset but is not a hard requirement. Without formal organizational backing, everyone would presumably be supporting xCAT as a part time activity in addition to other responsibilities. In a situation where the team is mostly made up of part-time volunteers, having more people to share the workload would be an asset. Prior experience with maintaining an open-source project would also be an asset but is not a hard requirement. Ideally the community will recognize the members of the group from previous activity on the project. As a first step, I would suggest that anyone that feels they are a good fit for maintaining or contributing to the project going forward and has the willingness and ability to dedicate time to the project should take a few minutes to reply with a brief introduction and a statement about how much time they think they can devote to project per week along with any areas of interest (specific operating systems, hardware configurations, or xCAT features they use regularly). I can assist in the transition, but I think it will be best for the prospective new maintainers to self-organize and develop a process and plan for how they would envision running the project in the future. If a critical mass of prospective new maintainers is able to form, I can share information about how we have been handling different aspects of the project. Areas to consider: xcat.org website xcat-user mailing list xcat2 github Issue triage Fix, test, verify issues New feature implementation Community support Release planning Test hardware for manual and automated testing Daily build automation Daily test automation Finally, while I personally would like to see the project continue, I have to operate within certain constraints imposed by my employment. The exact mechanics of how certain pieces of the project could be transitioned is still TBD. I will need to pitch any proposal to other interested parties at my employer for final approval. ________________________________ From: Kurt H Maier via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2023 3:00 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] Announcement: xCAT Project End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023 On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:49:46PM +0000, Nathan A Besaw via xCAT-user wrote: > We would consider transitioning responsibility for the project to a new group > of maintainers if members of the xCAT community can develop a viable proposal > for future maintenance. Can you describe what you'd like to see in such a proposal in order for you to consider it viable? Thanks, khm _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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