[openstack-dev] [nova] FYI, nova plans to have a room at the PTG in February

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Oct 6 19:25:26 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2016-10-06 13:52:09 -0500:
> On 10/6/2016 12:23 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2016-10-06 11:33:35 -0500:
> >> This is just a follow up email to the discussion about nova's
> >> participation in the Project Team Gathering (PTG) in February right
> >> after the Ocata release.
> >>
> >> I had asked because the OpenStack Foundation is getting early feedback
> >> on which teams are planning to attend. Several people said they planned
> >> on attending the PTG during the Nova meeting so I've submitted the form
> >> saying we'll have a room for Nova.
> >>
> >> Remember at a high level that the PTG is the replacement for the
> >> midcycle meetups, except it's centrally located and organized by the
> >> foundation, and it's at the release boundaries rather than the middle.
> >>
> >> The traditional summit that we're used to is now in the middle of the
> >> release and is more for the marketing stuff that happens at the summit
> >> whereas the PTG is supposed to be strictly technical and for
> >> development, like the design summit.
> >>
> >
> > That's a bit different than the way I understood it. My understanding
> > was that it was more like the fishbowls still happen, at the PTG, and the
> > work rooms at the end of the week at the PTG would replace the mid-cycles.
> >
> > If we don't have fishbowls anymore, we are going to end up siloing even
> > harder than we already do.
> >
> >> Personally if you care more about development discussions and would have
> >> to pick between going to the PTG or the summit, the PTG is the thing you
> >> want to try and get to now, but that's my opinion.
> >>
> >
> > I care about cross project, and that's not going to work if it's just
> > the nova devs in a room with their own agenda and I have to sit there
> > all day to get to the 2 or 3 topics that affect my efforts.
> >
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> 
> Sorry yeah I screwed that up. I re-read the PTG email and the first two 
> days are cross-project things, and Wed-Fri are meetup style at the PTG, 
> it's not time-boxed sessions like the design summit, unless again I'm 
> screwing this up and this is just a thing that's not explainable to mere 
> mortals until we actually experience one.

It's not fully time-boxed, but as Clint pointed out it might be
useful to establish some sort of estimated schedule so cross-team
discussions can be coordinated.

Doug



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