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Mark,

As PTL are members of the TC, need to join their own weekly meetings
in addition to the release meeting, I would tend to think that, if you
want to do you job properly, it would be tough to do both properly if
you have another role in an organization that pays your salary as
well.  This applies to me, and justifies my personal decision. I may
want to generalize a bit on it but I would not expect this to become a
global policy and if other feel like they can do both, they should
definitely have a go at it :)

Nick

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 13:17 +0100, Nicolas Barcet wrote:
>> As I do not think it is a good practice, nor completely practical to
>> be both a PTL and a board member, I will not seek a third mandate as
>> Ceilometer's project lead.
>
> Wow, I find that a really sad statement.
>
> If you mean there's a conflict of interest between representing the Gold
> Members on the Board and representing Ceilometers' contributors on the
> Technical Committee, then I don't see it - we all wear multiple hats and
> need to figure out a way to juggle them in an upfront and honest way.
> The conflict of interest argument taken to an extreme would mean that
> e.g. no affiliated developers should be allowed on the TC.
>
> If you mean there's only so much anybody can achieve with their time and
> that a PTL should dedicate all their available time to that task, then I
> also don't see it - we all have multiple responsibilities and no PTL
> dedicates all of their time to the role.
>
> If you mean that, in your case, there's only time to dedicate to one of
> the roles, then I can understand that - but what makes me sad is that
> anyone would see the role of Board member as taking priority over the
> role of PTL of an Integrated project. I take the opposite view - the
> difference a PTL can make to OpenStack is far greater than the
> difference a member of the 24 person Board can make.
>
> I think you've done a great job of leading Ceilometer to date and
> testament to that is the project has a bunch of strong technical leaders
> (e.g. Doug, Eoghan, Julien and Angus) any of which would be awesome as
> PTL. You guys have built a great team.
>
> I would just hate this "Board members shouldn't be PTLs and vice-versa"
> attitude to take hold in the project. I'd like to see the technical
> leadership of the project take a far more active role in the Foundation,
> not less.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
>
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