[openstack-dev] [nova] Retrospective veto revert policy

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 13 01:31:39 UTC 2014



On 8/12/2014 4:03 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> This looks reasonable to me, with a slight concern that I don't know
> what step five looks like... What if we can never reach a consensus on
> an issue?
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>> (Terrible name for a policy, I know)
>>
>>  From the version_cap saga here:
>>
>>    https://review.openstack.org/110754
>>
>> I think we need a better understanding of how to approach situations
>> like this.
>>
>> Here's my attempt at documenting what I think we're expecting the
>> procedure to be:
>>
>>    https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-retrospective-veto-revert-policy
>>
>> If it sounds reasonably sane, I can propose its addition to the
>> "Development policies" doc.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
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>
>
>

Just thinking out loud, you could do something like a 2/3 majority vote 
on the issue but that sounds too much like government, which is 
generally terrible.

Otherwise maybe the PTL is the tie-breaker?

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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