Open Stack

Hi everyone,

As announced previously[1][2], there were no PTL candidates within the
election deadline for a number of official OpenStack project teams:
Astara, UX, OpenStackSalt and Security.

In the Astara case, the current team working on it would like to abandon
the project (and let it be available for any new team who wishes to take
it away). A change should be proposed really soon now to go in that
direction.

In the UX case, the current PTL (Piet Kruithof) very quickly reacted,
explained his error and asked to be considered for the position for
Ocata. The TC will officialize his nomination at the next meeting,
together with the newly elected PTLs.

That leaves us with OpenStackSalt and Security, where nobody reacted to
the announcement that we are missing PTL candidates. That points to a
real disconnect between those teams and the rest of the community. Even
if you didn't have the election schedule in mind, it was pretty hard to
miss all the PTL nominations in the email last week.

The majority of TC members present at the meeting yesterday suggested
that those project teams should be removed from the Big Tent, with their
design summit space allocation slightly reduced to match that (and make
room for other not-yet-official teams).

In the case of OpenStackSalt, it's a relatively new addition, and if
they get their act together they could probably be re-proposed in the
future. In the case of Security, it points to a more significant
disconnect (since it's not the first time the PTL misses the nomination
call). We definitely still need to care about Security (and we also need
a home for the Vulnerability Management team), but I think the "Security
team" acts more like a workgroup than as an official project team, as
evidenced by the fact that nobody in that team reacted to the lack of
PTL nomination, or the announcement that the team missed the bus.

The suggested way forward there would be to remove the "Security project
team", have the Vulnerability Management Team file to be its own
official project team (in the same vein as the stable maintenance team),
and have Security be just a workgroup rather than a project team.

Thoughts, comments ?

[1]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/103904.html
[2]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/103939.html

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)