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Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2015-11-13 15:10:24 +0100:
> So.. quick summary of this thread so far.
> 
> (-)
> * Not enough work to warrant a designated "team", now that the work is
> decentralized and the cats are mostly herding themselves
> * The change is unlikely to bring a meaningful improvement to the
> situation, or sudden new resources
> 
> (+)
> * An empowered team could tackle new coordination tasks, like engaging
> more directly in converging stable branch rules across teams, or
> producing tools
> * Release management doesn't overlap anymore with stable branch, so
> having them under that PTL is limiting and inefficient
> * Reinforcing the branding (by giving it its own team) may encourage
> more organizations to affect new resources to it
> 
> In summary, I think this is worth a try. If the team fails, at least it
> will be on its own rather than as the 5th squeaky wheel of release
> management (where lack of leadership and focus could be rightly blamed
> for failure).
> 
> For this to succeed, we need someone to own the effort and push it
> forward, and a number of people caring enough about it to attend regular
> meetings about it and to lurk on #openstack-stable. I'm fine helping the
> team in the spin-off effort but I don't want to lead it (I proved I was
> unable to make it my top priority in the past, so I think the team
> deserves a more focused lead).
> 
> Erno has volunteered to lead. Ihar, Alan (Pevec) and myself don't have
> enough time to lead but are happy to help. Anyone else interested to
> join that initial group ? Flavio ? Matt ?
> 
> Once we have a list of key members we should set up a meeting to discuss
> the details.
> 

I'm willing to help with the initial team setup, working out the
details, transitioning ownership of docs, etc. I'm not sure how much
time I'll have to devote to other stable-related activities this cycle,
but may have more in the future.

Doug