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I had few related experience working with Erno for releasing/stable branching and I have to say he significantly clarified/fixed
many issue we had.

So ++


-----Original Message-----
From: Flavio Percoco [mailto:flavio at redhat.com] 
Sent: 16 November 2015 17:29
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [stable] Making stable maintenance its own OpenStack project team

On 13/11/15 15:10 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>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 ?

I'm happy to join with obvious limited time. I've already worked w/ Erno on some of this stuff.

As long as Ernoi (or someone else) is still willing to lead this effort, I think we can give this a try.

Flavio

>
>Once we have a list of key members we should set up a meeting to 
>discuss the details.
>
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>Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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