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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Anne Gentle
<annegentle at justwriteclick.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Back in January we had a thread[1] about modifying how the Technical
>> Committee members[2] are selected, in order to cope with future expected
>> growth in the number of projects. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time
>> to properly discuss it before we had to look into incubated projects
>> graduation and setting up the Spring elections, so we decided to
>> postpone this to the Havana cycle.
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>> [1]
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>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/004513.html
>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/TechnicalCommittee
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>> To kick off this second attempt, we had an interesting session at the
>> Design Summit where various goals were discussed and various solutions
>> proposed and compared. I summarized the current state of affairs on the
>> wiki at:
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>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Membership_Models
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>> I'd like everyone interested with this discussion to have a look at this
>> page. If you see goals that we missed, please suggest them on the thread
>> here, along with how well each currently-proposed solution would score
>> against it. Same if you think some model was not scored fairly against
>> existing stated goals. Finally, if you have an alternate model which
>> you'd like to suggest, feel free to do so. I'll keep the wiki page
>> updated based on the ML discussion.
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> Thanks for the draft write up. I have some thoughts for discussion.
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> You point to an idea number of 11 for the group size, and I would like
> some citation for where that number comes from. I know of the two-pizza
> rule in tech, and there's group research around "ten-groups" (saying eight
> to fourteen people in a group is about right for overcoming human nature
> and collaborating effectively, citing book *Corporation Man* by Antony
> Jay (Pelican 1975)). What causes you to land on 11? Could we say 10 or a
> range of 8-14 instead?
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> Defining the ideal group size will help with scoring. For example, I don't
> think the difference between 11 members and 13 members merits a +2 vs. a +1
> score.
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> I also think the ideal number of members will help determine whether
> categories are useful, and further defining categories to discover how many
> there may be will help score that one better.
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The category model seems interesting, but I would like to be able to
consider a more concrete proposal. Should we work out a list of specific
categories?

Doug


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> Thanks,
> Anne
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>> Hopefully we can all come up with a generally-consensual model able to
>> handle future growth of the project.
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>> Regards,
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>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>> Chair, OpenStack Technical Committee
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