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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > The TC is in the middle of implementing a fairly significant change in
> > project governance.  You can find an overview from Thierry on the
> > OpenStack blog [1].
> > 
> > Part of the change is to recognize more projects as being part of the
> > OpenStack community.  Another critical part was replacing the integrated
> > release with a set of tags.  A project would be given a tag if it meets
> > some defined set of criteria.
> > 
> > I feel that we're at a very vulnerable part of this transition.  We've
> > abolished the incubation process and integrated release.  We've
> > established a fairly low bar for new projects [2].  However, we have not
> > yet approved *any* tags other than the one that reflects which projects
> > are included in the final integrated release (Kilo) [3].  Despite the
> > previously discussed challenges with the integrated release,
> > it did at least mean that a project has met a very useful set of
> > criteria [4].
> > 
> > We now have several new project proposals.  However, I propose not
> > approving any new projects until we have a tagging system that is at
> > least far enough along to represent the set of criteria that we used to
> > apply to all OpenStack projects (with exception for ones we want to
> > consciously drop).  Otherwise, I think it's a significant setback to our
> > project governance as we have yet to provide any useful way to navigate
> > the growing set of projects.
> > 
> > The resulting set of tags doesn't have to be focused on replicating our
> > previous set of criteria.  The focus must be on what information is
> > needed by various groups of consumers and tags are a mechanism to
> > implement that.  In any case, we're far from that point because today we
> > have nothing.
> > 
> > I can't think of any good reason to rush into approving projects in the
> > short term.  If we're not able to work out this rich tagging system in a
> > reasonable amount of time, then maybe the whole approach is broken and
> > we need to rethink the whole approach.
> 
> I think we made it pretty clear that we would be taking approvals
> slowly, and that we might not approve any new projects before the
> summit, precisely for the reasons you state here. I have found the
> submitted proposals 

Oops

I have found the existing applications useful for thinking about what
tags we need, and what other criteria we might be missing (Joe's
proposal to add a team employer diversity requirement is one example).

Doug

> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://www.openstack.org/blog/2015/02/tc-update-project-reform-progress/
> > [2]
> > http://governance.openstack.org/reference/new-projects-requirements.html
> > [3] http://governance.openstack.org/reference/tags/index.html
> > [4]
> > http://governance.openstack.org/reference/incubation-integration-requirements.html
> > 
> > -- 
> > Russell Bryant
> > 
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