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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Eoghan Glynn <eglynn at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> > > Additional cross-project resources can be ponied up by the large
> > > contributor companies, and existing cross-project resources are not
> > > necessarily divertable on command.
> >
> > Sure additional cross-project resources can and need to be ponied up,
> but I
> > am doubtful that will be enough.
>
> OK, so what exactly do you suspect wouldn't be enough, for what
> exactly?
>
> Is it the likely number of such new resources, or the level of domain-
> expertise that they can be realistically be expected bring to the
> table, or the period of time to on-board them, or something else?
>
> And which cross-project concern do you think is most strained by the
> current set of projects in the integrated release? Is it:
>
>  * QA
>  * infra
>  * release management
>  * oslo
>  * documentation
>  * stable-maint
>
> or something else?
>
> Each of those teams has quite different prerequisite skill-sets, and
> the on-ramp for someone jumping in seeking to make a positive impact
> will vary from team to team.
>
> Different approaches have been tried on different teams, ranging from
> dedicated project-liaisons (Oslo) to shared cores (Sahara/Infra) to
> newly assigned dedicated resources (QA/Infra). Which of these models
> might work in your opinion? Which are doomed to failure, and why?
>
> So can you be more specific here on why you think adding more cross-
> project resources won't be enough to address an identified shortage
> of cross-project resources, while de-integrating projects would be?
>
> And, please, can we put the proverbial strawman back in its box on
> this thread? It's all well and good as a polemic device, but doesn't
> really move the discussion forward in a constructive way, IMO.
>


/me puts his strawman back in the box


>
> Thanks,
> Eoghan
>
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