Been chewing on this thread for a while.... I think I should advocate the other direction. I think most folks will come from PTL as its an easier path to get votes. So I don't see that as underrepresented. Getting some diversity of ideas from outside of those from PTL's is probably a good idea for the overall health of OpenStack. What about Users that have never been PTL's? Not developers? Thanks, Kevin ________________________________________ From: Jay Bryant [jungleboyj@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 1:32 PM To: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [tc] [all] Please help verify the role of the TC On 1/14/2019 2:16 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
Since there is a significant and friction creating division of power and leadership between the TC and PTLs, what would it be like if we required half or more of the TC be elected from PTLs? Then the "providing the technical leadership" aspect of the TC mission [3] would be vested with the people who also have some responsibility for executing on that leadership.
That would be like something we had before, but now there are many more PTLs.
I could see having something where to be an eligible candidate, one would either need to be a current or a past PTL. There's definitely value in bringing that experience and perspective to the TC.
That could complicate the election process quite a bit. But it's an idea interesting enough that I think we should discuss it further.
Sean
I think have a requirement of having been a PTL could be reasonable. Given the fact that I feel I have a hard enough time doing all I want to do as PTL, I wouldn't want to add TC at the same time. Would want to feel like I was doing it at a time where I could give it the appropriate attention. Jay