[openstack-tc] Designate one TC member to follow each candidate project

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Nov 6 17:19:22 UTC 2015


> On Nov 6, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
> Sean Dague wrote:
>> On 11/06/2015 09:00 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>>> I do not think kiloeyes needs a mentor. It has 6 commits. It's not
>>> actually a thing. thinking about it is a waste of our time until such a
>>> future time when it is actually a thing (which is a time I hope does not
>>> come, btw, because they should just be collaborating with monasca)
>> 
>> I think this has been my frustration with assuming TC mentoring of
>> not-yet-openstack projects is a thing we should sign up for. The goal
>> isn't to grow OpenStack to a 100 projects. The goal is that projects
>> that work like the rest of the OpenStack community get recognized as such.
>> 
>> The TC energy seems much better spent on key cross project issues
>> affecting our existing ecosystem and users.
> 
> I certainly see your point. My concern is that we keep a large number of
> applications around as open governance reviews, waiting for $SOMETHING
> to happen there before we should reconsider them. How should we judge
> when those are ready to be put back on the docket ?
> 
> My suggestion was that rather than having nobody (or everyone) watching
> that, we should have someone different keeping track of each, to spread
> the load. I can certainly see how that can be a loss of our precious
> time, especially as more and more projects apply.
> 
> I'm fine with the burden of "reproposing when ready" falling on the
> proposer. But then I think we should really reject the original proposal
> altogether, rather than keeping it around with vague comment, no real -2
> vote, and no real way for anyone to signal "hey now it *is* ready!".
> 
> Would you all be fine with that instead ?

Yes, let’s leave it on the schedule for this week and vote on whether to formally reject the proposal.

Doug


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