[openstack-dev] [tc] Organizational diversity tag

amrith.kumar at gmail.com amrith.kumar at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 20:50:08 UTC 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2018 4:26 PM
> To: openstack-dev <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Organizational diversity tag
> 
> Excerpts from amrith.kumar's message of 2018-06-02 15:06:27 -0400:
> > Every project on the one-way-trip to inactivity starts with what some
> > people will wishfully call a 'transient period' of reduced activity.
> > Once the transient nature is no longer the case (either it becomes
> > active or the transient becomes permanent) the normal process of
> > eviction can begin. As the guy who came up with the maintenance-mode
> > tag, so as to apply it to Trove, I believe that both the diversity tag
> > and the maintenance mode tag have a good reason to exist, and should
> > both be retained independent of each other.
> >
> > The logic always was, and should remain, that diversity is a measure
> > of wide multi-organizational support for a project; not measured in
> > the total volume of commits but the fraction of commits. There was
> > much discussion about the knobs in the diversity tag measurement when
> > Flavio made the changes some years back. I'm sorry I didn't attend the
> > session in Vancouver but I'll try and tune in to a TC office hours
> > session and maybe get a rundown of what precipitated this decision to
> move away from the diversity tag.
> 
> We're talking about how to improve reporting on diversity, not stop doing it.

Why not just automate the thing that we have right now and have something kick a review automatically if the diversity in a team changes (per current formula)?

> 
> Doug
> 
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