[openstack-dev] [tc] [all] TC Report 18-33

Chris Dent cdent+os at anticdent.org
Tue Aug 14 12:35:05 UTC 2018


HTML: https://anticdent.org/tc-report-18-33.html

## Dead, Gone or Stable

[Last week](https://anticdent.org/tc-report-18-32.html) saw plenty
of discussion about how to deal with projects for which no PTL was
found by election or acclaim. That discussion continued this week,
but also stimulated discussion on the differences between a project
being dead, gone from OpenStack, or stable.

* [Needing a point person](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-08-07.log.html#t2018-08-07T13:05:48)
* [Risks (or lack) of being leaderless](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-08-13.log.html#t2018-08-13T08:09:23)

Mixed in with that are some dribbles of a theme which has become
increasingly common of late:

* [Contribution from foundation member corps](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-08-09.log.html#t2018-08-09T12:49:27)
* [The need for janitors, and board members not being the people able to provide](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-08-09.log.html#t2018-08-09T13:30:12)

As a group, the TC has very mixed feelings on these issues. On the
one hand everyone would like to keep projects healthy and within
OpenStack, where possible. On the other hand, it is important that
people who are upstream contributors stop over-committing to
compensate for lack of commitment from a downstream that benefits
hugely from their labor. Letting projects "die" or become unofficial
is one way to clearly signal that there are resourcing problems.

In fact, doing so with both
[Searchlight](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/588644/) and
[Freezer](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/588645/) raised some
volunteers to help out as PTLs. However, both of those projects have
been languishing for many months. How many second chances do
projects get?

## IRC for PTLs

Within all the discussion about the health of projects, there was
some
[discussion](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-08-08.log.html#t2018-08-08T17:25:20)
of whether it was appropriate to expect PTLs to have and use IRC
nicks. As the character of the pool of potential PTLs evolves, it
might not fit. See the log for a bit more nuance on the issues.

## TC Elections Soon

Six seats on the TC will be up for election. The nomination period
will start at the end of this month. If you're considering running
and have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

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Chris Dent                       ٩◔̯◔۶           https://anticdent.org/
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