[tripleo] distributed-project-leadership RFC
Greetings, The TripleO project would like to hear your thoughts with regards to breaking down the typical PTL role into smaller roles. Please read through this document [1] and share your thoughts in this thread. If you are interested in growing your leadership skills and being responsible for any of the roles listed there please also indicate that in your response. Thanks all! [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20200803-distributed-project...
I already replied on your other thread [1] but I think *this* is the right one ! I'd like to nominate myself for the PTL role - ideally working with a team of liaisons. Of course we may not find enough folks to fill all the roles documented in the spec, in which case the PTL will have to ensure this is done by some other means (in the worst case doing it themself); so let's see what the level of interest is here. Perhaps some folks will even disagree with the distributed PTL. Otherwise I'm also interested in any of the liaison - I have some prior experience cutting tripleo releases so possibly release liaison. thanks, marios [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-September/017326... On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 3:34 PM Wesley Hayutin <whayutin@redhat.com> wrote:
Greetings,
The TripleO project would like to hear your thoughts with regards to breaking down the typical PTL role into smaller roles. Please read through this document [1] and share your thoughts in this thread.
If you are interested in growing your leadership skills and being responsible for any of the roles listed there please also indicate that in your response.
Thanks all!
[1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20200803-distributed-project...
On 2020-09-16 16:51:10 +0300 (+0300), Marios Andreou wrote: [...]
I'd like to nominate myself for the PTL role - ideally working with a team of liaisons. Of course we may not find enough folks to fill all the roles documented in the spec, in which case the PTL will have to ensure this is done by some other means (in the worst case doing it themself); so let's see what the level of interest is here. Perhaps some folks will even disagree with the distributed PTL. [...]
I think there may be some misunderstanding due to how that document is laid out. It briefly describes our traditional "PTL with Liaisons" project leadership model for purposes of comparison (and to indicate that it's still the default), but then goes on to describe a new "Distributed Leadership" model which has no PTL. If you want to nominate yourself as PTL candidate for TripleO, you would do that as usual next week when PTL nominations open (see https://governance.openstack.org/election/ for instructions, but we'll also send another announcement to the ML at the start of nomination week). Whoever is elected TripleO PTL can delegate whatever duties to as many liaisons as they like, this has always been a strong recommendation anyway for a number of very good reasons. If the TripleO wants "PTL-less" distributed leadership instead (that is, a group of liaisons reporting to the team and to the TC, with no PTL as an intermediary), then that's what the 2020-08-03 Distributed Project Leadership resolution is intended to allow. -- Jeremy Stanley
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:12 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
On 2020-09-16 16:51:10 +0300 (+0300), Marios Andreou wrote: [...]
I'd like to nominate myself for the PTL role - ideally working with a team of liaisons. Of course we may not find enough folks to fill all the roles documented in the spec, in which case the PTL will have to ensure this is done by some other means (in the worst case doing it themself); so let's see what the level of interest is here. Perhaps some folks will even disagree with the distributed PTL. [...]
I think there may be some misunderstanding due to how that document is laid out. It briefly describes our traditional "PTL with Liaisons" project leadership model for purposes of comparison (and to indicate that it's still the default), but then goes on to describe a new "Distributed Leadership" model which has no PTL.
If you want to nominate yourself as PTL candidate for TripleO, you would do that as usual next week when PTL nominations open (see https://governance.openstack.org/election/ for instructions, but we'll also send another announcement to the ML at the start of nomination week). Whoever is elected TripleO PTL can delegate whatever duties to as many liaisons as they like, this has always been a strong recommendation anyway for a number of very good reasons.
If the TripleO wants "PTL-less" distributed leadership instead (that is, a group of liaisons reporting to the team and to the TC, with no PTL as an intermediary), then that's what the 2020-08-03 Distributed Project Leadership resolution is intended to allow.
thanks for clarifying - so I'm in fact describing PTL with liaisons above. I thought even with distributed PTL there is still a central figure that is to be held accountable should any of the liaisons be unable to fulfill their responsibilities. I still think the distributed leadership model can work for TripleO but that will depend on how many folks step forward to signal interest here. I guess what we do ultimately will depend on that so let's give it a couple of days, thanks, marios
-- Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-09-16 17:18:35 +0300 (+0300), Marios Andreou wrote: [...]
thanks for clarifying - so I'm in fact describing PTL with liaisons above. I thought even with distributed PTL there is still a central figure that is to be held accountable should any of the liaisons be unable to fulfill their responsibilities. [...]
Yep, just to make sure everyone's on the same page about what https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20200803-distributed-project... allows, it's a means of having no PTL at all and instead formally assigning volunteers to at least these duties which a PTL would normally have performed or delegated: Release liaison, TaCT SIG liaison, Security SIG/VMT liaison (also optionally: Events liaison, Project Update/Onboarding liaison, Meeting Facilitator, Bug Deputy, RFE Coordinator). These are all tasks a traditional PTL can already (and is encouraged to) delegate to volunteers on their team if they are so inclined, the 2020-08-03 Distributed Project Leadership resolution merely recognizes a sanctioned way of doing that without any PTL whatsoever. -- Jeremy Stanley
participants (3)
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Jeremy Stanley
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Marios Andreou
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Wesley Hayutin