- reduce the number of TC members from 13 to 9 (I actually proposed that 6 months ago at the PTG but that was not as popular then). A group of 9 is a good trade-off between the difficulty to get enough people to do project stewardship and the need to get a diverse set of opinions on governance decision.
I am in support of this. Seems appropriate to support the level of participation in OpenStack.
- allow "PTL" role to be multi-headed, so that it is less of a superhuman and spreading the load becomes more natural. We would not elect/choose a single person, but a ticket with one or more names on it. From a governance perspective, we still need a clear contact point and a "bucket stops here" voice. But in practice we could (1) contact all heads when we contact "the PTL", and (2) consider that as long as there is no dissent between the heads, it is "the PTL voice". To actually make it work in practice I'd advise to keep the number of heads low (think 1-3).
No concerns with this given that it has been something we have unofficially done in Cinder for years. I couldn't have gotten things done the way I did without help from Sean McGinnis. Now that the torch has been passed to Brian I plan to continue to support him there.
[...] We drastically need to change the expectations we place on ourselves in terms of velocity.
In terms of results, train cycle activity (as represented by merged commits/day) is globally down 9.6% compared to Stein. Only considering "core" projects, that's down 3.8%.
So maybe we still have the same expectations, but we are definitely reducing our velocity... Would you say we need to better align our expectations with our actual speed? Or that we should reduce our expectations further, to drive velocity further down?
In the case of Cinder our velocity is slowing due to reduced review activity. That is soon going to be a big problem and we have had little luck at encouraging to do more reviews again. I have also found that we have had to get better at saying 'No' to things. This is in the interest of avoiding burnout. There is a lot we want to do but if it isn't a priority for someone it simply isn't going to get done. Prioritizing the work has become increasingly important. As has been touched upon in other discussions, I think we have a culture where it is difficult for them to say no to things. It is great that people care about OpenStack and want to make things happen but it can't be at the cost of people burning out. To some extent we need to slow velocity. If corporations don't step up to start helping out then we must be doing what needs to get done.