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On 04/22/2015 05:26 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> Hey fellow developers,
> 
> I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election
> that's happening.
> 
> 
> TL;DR: Vote for me to bring back the fun and raise the bar! :)
> 
> 
> As you might know, I've been a member of the OpenStack community for
> several years now, and I actually already seated at the TC, back when
> PTL had a seat. I've been leading Ceilometer for a while, and I'm still
> active in this project, as I recently started and pushed Gnocchi¹ in
> OpenStack. I contribute also to Oslo and other OpenStack projects for a
> very long time now.
> 
> Let's jump to the hot topics.
> 
> The TC decided to open the gates for what goes into OpenStack, and
> that's great, as trying to control that was totally failing.
> Now there's a work ongoing about classifying projects under tags, and
> I've absolutely no idea why the TC should be responsible for this
> ultimately. This really looks like something that could be built and
> decided by the entire community. I don't think I want to spend too much
> time on this anyway.
> 
> I think OpenStack has way too much bureaucracy. The whole project is
> glued in tons of processes that slows everything down for little value.
> I see people writing code that is refused because there's no spec, specs
> not reviewed because there's no code, and people frustrated because they
> have to wait 3 months to have a brain-dead one-liner fix to get merged.
> While I recognized there are some upside to this processes, this has
> gone too far and I want OpenStack to become more agile (there, I said
> it).
> 
> I've pushed the idea recently in Gnocchi that the bar should be raised
> about documentation. We've set the same rule for documentation that we
> had for unit and functional testing: a patch with no documentation or no
> unit tests or no functional tests is refused. This allowed us to build a
> complete and (almost) properly documented and fully tested project from
> scratch in less than a year. That's an idea I'd like to push further in
> other OpenStack projects.
> 
> I hope and I think I'm continually striving to make OpenStack better as
> a whole and I want to push that further in all projects so that we can
> go faster to push our vision out.
> 
> It seems to me that the TC had a very small power so far to influence
> the community and projects, though I hope we'll anyway be able to reach
> out to the projects in an efficient way to communicate our ideas!
> 
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> 
> ¹  http://launchpad.net/gnocchi
> 
> 
> 
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