<div dir="ltr">I share the same concerns that Matt and Dmitry have already spoken. One year release process seems like a good plan, but I do feel that cuting the PTG can directly affect the progress of the cycle. <div><br></div><div>It would take a great effort from PTLs and Core team to keep developement going smoothly througout the whole year. I'm not saying it is impossible, but a little more structure during the release cycle, milestones, or hard OpenStack wise deadlines could help as well.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:38 PM Dmitry Tantsur <<a href="mailto:dtantsur@redhat.com">dtantsur@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/13/2017 06:29 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:16:35PM +0000, Chris Jones wrote:<br>
>> Hey<br>
>><br>
>> On 13 December 2017 at 17:12, Jimmy McArthur <<a href="mailto:jimmy@openstack.org" target="_blank">jimmy@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Thierry Carrez wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> - It doesn't mean that teams can only meet in-person once a year.<br>
>>>> Summits would still provide a venue for team members to have an<br>
>>>> in-person meeting. I also expect a revival of the team-organized<br>
>>>> midcycles to replace the second PTG for teams that need or want to meet<br>
>>>> more often.<br>
>>>><br>
>>> The PTG seems to allow greater coordination between groups. I worry that<br>
>>> going back to an optional mid-cycle would reduce this cross-collaboration,<br>
>>> while also reducing project face-to-face time.<br>
<br>
+++<br>
<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I can't speak for the Foundation, but I would think it would be good to<br>
>> have an official PTG in the middle of the cycle (perhaps neatly aligned<br>
>> with some kind of milestone/event) that lets people discuss plans for<br>
>> finishing off the release, and early work they want to get started on for<br>
>> the subsequent release). The problem with team-organised midcycles (as I'm<br>
>> sure everyone remembers), is that there's little/no opportunity for<br>
>> cross-project work.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>><br>
>> Chris<br>
><br>
> This was one of my concerns initially too. We may have to see how things go and<br>
> course correct once we have a little more data to go on. But the thought (or at<br>
> least the hope) was that we could get by with using the one PTG early in the<br>
> cycle to get alignment, then though IRC, the mailing list, and the Forums (keep<br>
> in mind there will be two Forums within the cycle) we would be able to keep<br>
> things going and discuss any cross project concerns.<br>
<br>
Let's please not bring Forum in this context, unless we want to move it back to<br>
the Summit format. Which is not impossible though, we can have one event as<br>
Forum (+ PTG somewhere close), one event similar to former Summit.<br>
<br>
><br>
> This may actually get more emphasis on developers attending the Forum. I think<br>
> that is one part of our PTG/Design Summit split that has not fully settled the<br>
> way we had hoped. The Forum is still encouraged for developers to attend. But I<br>
> think the reality has been many companies now just see the Summit as a<br>
> marketing event and see no reason to send any developers.<br>
<br>
It won't change from merely removing one PTG. PTGs really work much better than<br>
Summits used to work for technical discussions, from my experience. Unless we<br>
make Forums work as well, it will be just as hard to justify going there, even<br>
without a PTG.<br>
<br>
><br>
> I can say from the last couple Forum experiences, a lot of really good<br>
> discussions have happened there. It's really been unfortunate that there were a<br>
> lot of key people missing from some of those discussions though. Personally, my<br>
> hope with making this change would mean that the likelihood of devs being able<br>
> to justify going to the Forum increases.<br>
<br>
.. or for companies to justify cutting the travel budget?<br>
<br>
><br>
> Sean<br>
><br>
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