[openstack-dev] Motion to start using Gerrit for TC votes

Nachi Ueno nachi at ntti3.com
Tue Aug 6 20:58:21 UTC 2013


+1

2013/8/6 Morgan Fainberg <m at metacloud.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Currently, we make motions by email, then we discuss them by mailing
>> list, then we discuss them more in IRC, then we vote on them - at which
>> point the actual thing voted on may or may not get recorded somewhere
>> easy to find.
>>
>> What if instead we had a repo with a bunch of ReStructureText in it -
>> perhaps a copy of the TC charter and then a dir for additional things
>> the TC has decided. That repo would be autopublished to a non-wiki
>> website ... and the core team for the repo was the TC. EXCEPT, we didnt'
>> do a 2 core +2 thing ... we'd have some slightly different rules. Such
>> as - certain number of days it has to be open, certain number of +1
>> votes, etc. And then only the TC chair has the actual APRV vote, which
>> is used to codify the vote tallies.
>>
>> This would allow for clear voting by both the TC and others - is
>> consistent with tooling we ALL know how to use, and has the benefit of
>> producing a clear published record of the results when it's done. That
>> way also, TC members and others can do a decent amount of the actual
>> discussion outside of TC meeting, and we can save meeting time for
>> resolution of issues/questions that simply cannot be sorted out via
>> gerrit process.
>>
>> Monty
>>
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>
> I really like this concept.  This would be a very nice level of transparency
> (not that the TC hides anything) and makes it much easier to see what is/has
> been going on and how we got there.  It also ensures we have the comments
> recorded along the way.
>
> Cheers,
> Morgan Fainberg
>
> IRC: morganfainberg
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