[openstack-dev] [stable] Making stable maintenance its own OpenStack project team

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Mon Nov 16 17:29:18 UTC 2015


On 13/11/15 15:10 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>So.. quick summary of this thread so far.
>
>(-)
>* Not enough work to warrant a designated "team", now that the work is
>decentralized and the cats are mostly herding themselves
>* The change is unlikely to bring a meaningful improvement to the
>situation, or sudden new resources
>
>(+)
>* An empowered team could tackle new coordination tasks, like engaging
>more directly in converging stable branch rules across teams, or
>producing tools
>* Release management doesn't overlap anymore with stable branch, so
>having them under that PTL is limiting and inefficient
>* Reinforcing the branding (by giving it its own team) may encourage
>more organizations to affect new resources to it
>
>In summary, I think this is worth a try. If the team fails, at least it
>will be on its own rather than as the 5th squeaky wheel of release
>management (where lack of leadership and focus could be rightly blamed
>for failure).
>
>For this to succeed, we need someone to own the effort and push it
>forward, and a number of people caring enough about it to attend regular
>meetings about it and to lurk on #openstack-stable. I'm fine helping the
>team in the spin-off effort but I don't want to lead it (I proved I was
>unable to make it my top priority in the past, so I think the team
>deserves a more focused lead).
>
>Erno has volunteered to lead. Ihar, Alan (Pevec) and myself don't have
>enough time to lead but are happy to help. Anyone else interested to
>join that initial group ? Flavio ? Matt ?

I'm happy to join with obvious limited time. I've already worked w/
Erno on some of this stuff.

As long as Ernoi (or someone else) is still willing to lead this
effort, I think we can give this a try.

Flavio

>
>Once we have a list of key members we should set up a meeting to discuss
>the details.
>
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>Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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