Ending and archiving the rkt project

[lucab]

This ticket is both a project status update and a tracker for the next steps.

Quoting my last status report from last year:

For reference, the previous development team at CoreOS got dismantled, and post Red Hat acquisition there are no plan to push the development forward.

However @kinvolk still has some development plans for it. Plus we acknowledge the fact that there are plenty of stable deployments out there where rkt fits well.

For clarity the github.com/rkt/rkt project will keep existing as a standalone free-software project, but it won't be anymore under CNCF umbrella.

Since then, a few things happened in the ecosystem around rkt:

• an End-Of-Life notice has been put out for CoreOS Container Linux
• @kinvolk privately told me that they no more have development plans for rkt, and @blixtra plans to deprecate its usage in Flatcar
• no major development or community engagement showed up in several months

For these reasons, there is now a rough consensus to proceed to declare the end of this project.

As rkt is free software, people are free and welcome to fork and develop the codebase on their own.
However, to avoid any confusion, we intend to archive this project and we recommend any further fork/development to proceed with an explicit rename and rebranding first.

We don't plan to actively delete existing artifacts, but we encourage all interested parties to mirror any relevant bits as we can't actively guarantee their existence in the future.

Before the end of this month (February 2020), I will thus proceed to:

• add a note to the README, stating that the rkt project is ended
• archive the project on GitHub

/cc @alban @philips @squeed @dgonyeo @euank @iaguis @krnowak @yifan-gu

[alban]

LGTM

[philips]

LGTM

[iaguis]

LGTM

[cgonyeo]

LGTM

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[krnowak]

LFAD