[rdo-dev] Retiring of openstack namespace projects in review.rdoproject.org

Greetings, I'd like to raise another topic related to the recent migration of zuulv3. Today the rdoproject has a lot of projects in gerrit of upstream openstack, for example: # Mirror of upstream aodh (mirror + patches) git clone https://review.rdoproject.org/r/openstack/aodh these are projects in the openstack namespace that are not distgit packaging. With the migration to zuulv3, this actually creates a little bit of an issue due to how zuul now load configuration. If you look at the project stanza in config project you'll see something like: - project: name: git.openstack.org/openstack/aodh - project: name: review.rdoproject.org/openstack/aodh This is the tell zuul, which connection to gerrit should be used. However, in most cases these projects are just running a simple tox job to ensure tests work. However, from what I see these projects aren't really used anymore? Is that correct? If so, can we start the process to retire these repos and remove them from zuul configuration? This will help simplify the amount of things zuul needs to know about. If we do need them, moving forward, I don't actually think we need to mirror the full project any more, this is due to zuul jobs can now be written to first require-project of the upstream project, clone it to a node, then we just need to overlay downstream patches. However, I think this workflow needs a little more work to make it work properly. Feedback welcome, - Paul