Unofficial Project Hosting¶
Unofficial project hosting is the way that OpenStack related projects can consume and make use of the OpenStack project infrastructure. This includes Gerrit code review, Zuul continuous integration, GitHub repository mirroring, and various small things like IRC bots, pypi uploads, RTFD updates. Projects should make use of being an unofficial project if they want to run their project with Gerrit code review and have a trunk gated by Zuul.
Unofficial projects are expected to be self sufficient when it comes to configuring Gerrit/Zuul etc. The openstack-infra team can provide assistance as resources allow, but should not be relied on.
What being an unoffocial project is not:
Official endorsement of a project by OpenStack.
A guarantee of eventual inclusion as an official OpenStack project (though it is a good first step in that process as it exposes the project to the OpenStack way of doing things and tooling).
Historical Background¶
Previously unofficial projects were hosted as part of “Stackforge” which had its own namespace in Gerrit and Github (stackforge/). It is common for unofficial projects to become official projects and when that happened with the old stackforge/ namespace we had to perform Gerrit downtimes to rename things to use the openstack/ namespace. In response to this we collapsed the stackforge/ namespace into the openstack/ namespace. This means both unofficial projects and official projects are hosted under the openstack/ namespace in Gerrit and Github. This means that not all projects under openstack/ are official OpenStack projects they are instead simply hosted by the OpenStack project infrastructure.
Eventually the TC decided to completely deprecate the Stackforge name though you may still hear it being used as short hand for “Unofficial Project”.
Audience¶
The focus of unofficial project hosting is to provide a place for OpenStack contributors to maintain related unofficial projects using the same tools and procedures as they employ when working on official OpenStack projects, to make it easier for other OpenStack developers to contribute effort to those projects and in some cases to ease a project’s path to incubation and official integration. As such, the target audience for this document is current OpenStack developers who are assumed to already be familiar with how changes are uploaded and reviewed within OpenStack projects. As an introduction to OpenStack contribution, it is recommend to first read https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute and then the Developer’s Guide.
Create an Unofficial Project¶
For information on adding an unofficial project, see the Project Creator’s Guide.
