Over the last few months, it has become clear that as we changed the branch lifecycle for the main Beaker repo, several of the things that had previously lived in that repo no longer belonged there.

To that end, Dan has now broken out three new git repos on beaker-project.org:

beaker-core-tasks: these are the tasks needed for various Beaker features

/distribution/install /distribution/inventory /distribution/reservesys /distribution/updateDistro

This will also be the eventual home for the guest recipe tasks once their open sourced properly.

beaker-meta-tasks: these are Beaker's self testing tasks, and any other tasks we create to figure out correct settings for Beaker

/distribution/beaker/Sanity/bz880440-fqdn-self-reporting /distribution/beaker/Sanity/sync-set_block-tests /distribution/beaker/custom_kickstart /distribution/beaker/dogfood /distribution/beaker/fake_systems /dsitribution/beaker/import /dsitribution/beaker/setup

Finally, beaker-administrivia is the home for some utility scripts we use to keep Bugzilla, Gerrit and the core team's internal task tracking in sync (these initially lived under the Misc directory in the main repo, but having them vary by Beaker version doesn't make any sense).

There's still some more cleanup to be done next week (setting up Gerrit notifications, updating the developer guide), but the bulk of this change is now complete.

We're also working on decoupling the release cycles for beah and the standard tasks from the main Beaker release cadence. Since they're much easier to update than Beaker itself, there's a potential opportunity for faster turnaround times for fixes if we can streamline their release processes.

Cheers, Nick.