[openstack-dev] [tc] Organizational diversity tag

amrith.kumar at gmail.com amrith.kumar at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 19:08:06 UTC 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 10:11 AM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Organizational diversity tag
> 
> On 26/05/18 17:46, Mohammed Naser wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > During the TC retrospective at the OpenStack summit last week, the
> > topic of the organizational diversity tag is becoming irrelevant was
> > brought up by Thierry (ttx)[1].  It seems that for projects that are
> > not very active, they can easily lose this tag with a few changes by
> > perhaps the infrastructure team for CI related fixes.
> >
> > As an action item, Thierry and I have paired up in order to look into
> > a way to resolve this issue.  There have been ideas to switch this to
> > a report that is published at the end of the cycle rather than
> > continuously.  Julia (TheJulia) suggested that we change or track
> > different types of diversity.
> >
> > Before we start diving into solutions, I wanted to bring this topic up
> > to the mailing list and ask for any suggestions.  In digging the
> > codebase behind this[2], I've found that there are some knobs that we
> > can also tweak if need-be, or perhaps we can adjust those numbers
> > depending on the number of commits.
> 
> Crazy idea: what if we dropped the idea of measuring the diversity and
> allowed teams to decide when they applied the tag to themselves like we do
> for other tags. (No wait! Come back!)
> 
> Some teams enforce a requirement that the 2 core +2s come from reviewers
> with different affiliations. We would say that any project that enforces that
> rule would get the diversity tag. Then it's actually attached to something
> concrete, and teams could decide for themselves when to drop it (because
> they would start having difficulty merging stuff otherwise).
> 

[Amrith Kumar] Isn't that what the current formula would flag as being a diverse project 😊


> I'm not entirely sold on this, but it's an idea I had that I wanted to throw out
> there :)
> 
> cheers,
> Zane.
> 
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