I'd be lead by how the people working in the space want to organize, but... Seems like SIG would be a good fit as I18N is extremely cross project, presumably everything has text output even if it's just logging and not enduser focused. my 2ยข -Jon On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:36:38AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: :Hi! : :The I18n project team had no PTL candidates for Ussuri, so the TC needs to :decide what to do with it. It just happens that Ian kindly volunteered to be :an election official, and therefore could not technically run for I18n PTL. :So if Ian is still up for taking it, we could just go and appoint him. : :That said, I18n evolved a lot, to the point where it might fit the SIG :profile better than the project team profile. : :As a reminder, project teams are responsible for producing :OpenStack-the-software, and since they are all integral in the production of :the software that we want to release on a time-based schedule, they come with :a number of mandatory tasks (like designating a PTL every 6 months). : :SIGs (special interest groups) are OpenStack teams that work on a mission :that is not directly producing a piece of the OpenStack release. SIG members :are bound by their mission, rather than by a specific OpenStack release :deliverable. There is no mandatory task, as it is OK if the group goes :dormant for a while. : :The I18n team regroups translators, with an interest of making OpenStack (in :general, not just the software) more accessible to non-English speakers. They :currently try to translate the OpenStack user survey, the Horizon dashboard :messages, and key documentation. : :It could still continue as a project team (since it still produces Horizon :translations), but I'd argue that at this point it is not what defines them. :The fact that they are translators is what defines them, which IMHO makes :them fit the SIG profile better than the project team profile. They can :totally continue proposing translation files for Horizon as a I18n SIG, so :there would be no technical difference. Just less mandatory tasks for the :team. : :Thoughts ? : :-- :Thierry Carrez (ttx) :