During the last architecture committee meeting (Aug 10th, 2021) this topic was brought up again and it's driven by simplifying the current workflow. Archana & Eric raised some concerns about the amount of churn / commit pollution in the kata-containers repository. This discussion is not new, we've had it on https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/187 and we even agreed in one of the meetings that merging the repo would be the way to go, although it'd generate a lot of work that no-one at that point would be willing to take. Regardless of what was discussed, we didn't get the input of people who are majoritarily working on that repo, being Gabriela & Salvador the main ones, and I know they may have some concerns about the topic. So, Gabriela, Salvador, would you mind sharing the concerns? One last thing from my side, while I'm in favour of doing the move, I'd like to ensure we take the decision based on the right motivations. Merging the repos will *not* solve the problems we have on maintaining the stable branches and, for that, please take a look at Gabriela's proposal https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/2429 Please, share your opinions, concerns, and ideas. Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio