elastic-reckeck maintenance takeover

[Ghanshyam Mann]

 ---- On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:30:20 -0500 Sorin Sbarnea <ssbarnea at redhat.com> wrote ----
 > Hi!
 > 
 > I would like to request taking over the maintenance of elastic-recheck project.
 > 
 > My team (triple-ci), really valued the tool and has a strong interest not only in keeping it alive but also improving it.
 > 
 > While the team considered writing our own tool or forking it and changing it for our own use, adding missing features like multiple gerrit servers or multiple issue trackers, I advocated that we should instead become active maintainers and avoid the not-invented-here approach.
 > 
 > I already did some work towards making the tool an easy to deploy standalone container. Starting new instances for testing or production should soon be as easy as a one-line command.
 > 
 > I am more than happy to act as a liason between openstack-infra and triplo-ci and assure that no changes are made that could negatively impact openstack main deployment.
 > 
 > I propose adding tripleo-ci-core gerrit group as core to the project but if there are concerns that the group is too wide, I can also provide a list of people that I trust to follow the expected review process.

>From QA perspective, we are ok with this. Unfortunately, the QA team does not have much bandwidth and also no java expert to take over the maintenance. 

-gmann

 > 
 > Best regards,
 > Sorin Sbarnea
 > Red Hat TripleO-CI
 > 
 >