Open Stack

Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14 2017, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> 
>> - People who would like to get more involved (and become core
>> developers) but can't keep up with what's happening in their project or
>> reach the review activity necessary to become core developers. A number
>> of projects are struggling to recruit new core reviewers, so I think
>> reducing expectations and slowing down the pace could help there.
> 
> Can you detail more how having a longer cycle will make people that
> spends 20% of their time on OpenStack "catch up" with the people that
> spends 80% of their time on OpenStack?
> 
> I understand the problem but I don't see how the proposed solution
> solves it.

It takes time to get a feature merged (or any significant work done) in
OpenStack. It takes time to get reviews, we need to be careful about not
breaking all our users, etc. If you are a 20% time person, it's just
impossible to get something significant done within the timeframe of a
cycle, which leads to frustration as you have to get your stuff
re-discussed and re-prioritized at the start of the next cycle.

I'm open to other ways to solve what is perceived by many as an
untenable cadence -- but so far the only suggestion I got on this thread
was that 20% people should really ask their manager to become 80%
people. And I don't see that happening. We 80% people can bury our heads
in the sand and pretend that we don't need the 20% people or somehow fix
them so they become 80% people. Fact is we have less and less of those
80% people and we fail to recruit enough of the many available 20%
people to be sustainable long-term.

I'm aware this solution is not perfect. I don't like the idea of
releasing less often, and I can see how intermediary releases might not
get used, leading to "minor releases" that would look like our current
milestones. Maybe the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Open to other
suggestions :)

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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