Friendly reminder that this week we moved to the new agenda-based ping list. If you want to continue receiving pings and haven't already added yourself to the new list you should do so ASAP. Thanks.
On 5/20/19 11:48 AM, Ben Nemec wrote:
Important: Action is required if you want to continue receiving courtesy pings. Read on for details.
This is an oslo-specific followup to [0]. There's a lot of good discussion there if you're interested in the background for this email.
The TLDR version is that we're going to keep the Oslo courtesy ping list because a number of Oslo contributors have expressed their preference for it. However, we are making some changes.
First, the ping list will be cleared at the start of each cycle. This should prevent us from pinging people who no longer work on Oslo (which is almost certainly happening right now). Everyone who wants a courtesy ping will need to re-opt-in each cycle. We'll work out a transition process so people don't just stop receiving pings.
Second, the ping list is going to move from the script in oslo.tools to the meeting agenda[1] on the wiki. There's no need for Oslo core signoff on ping list changes and that makes it a waste of time for both the cores and the people looking to make changes to the list. This does mean we'll lose the automatic wrapping of the list, but once we clean up the stale entries I suspect we won't need to wrap it as much anyway.
I will continue to use the existing ping list for the next two weeks to give everyone a chance to add their name to the new list. I've seeded the new list with a couple of people who had expressed interest in continuing to receive pings, but if anyone else wants to continue getting them please add yourself to the list in [1] (see the Agenda Template section).
I'm intentionally _not_ adding all of the active Oslo cores on the assumption that you may prefer to set up your own notification method. I might automatically carry over cores from cycle to cycle since they are presumably still interested in Oslo and chose that notification method, but we'll worry about that at the start of next cycle.
I think that covers the current plan for courtesy pings in Oslo. If you have any comments or concerns please let me know. Otherwise expect this new system to take effect in 3 weeks.
Thanks.
-Ben
0: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-May/006235.html 1: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Oslo