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HTML: https://anticdent.org/tc-report-18-10.html

This is a TC Report, but since everything that happened in its window
of observation is preparing for the
[PTG](https://www.openstack.org/ptg), being at the PTG, trying to get
home from the PTG, and recovering from the PTG, perhaps think of this
as "What the TC talked about [at] the PTG". As it is impossible to be
everywhere at once (especially when the board meeting overlaps with
other responsibilities) this will miss a lot of important stuff.  I
hope there are other summaries.

As you may be aware, it [snowed in
Dublin](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23snowpenstack) causing plenty
of disruption to the
[PTG](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23openstackptg) but everyone
(foundation staff, venue staff, hotel staff, attendees, uisce beatha)
worked together to make a good week.

# Talking about the PTG at the PTG

At the [board
meeting](http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2018-March/002570.html),
the future of the PTG was a big topic. As currently constituted it
presents some challenges:

* It is difficult for some people to attend because of visa and other
   travel related issues.
* It is expensive to run and not everyone is convinced of the return
   on investment.
* Some people don't like it (they either miss the old way of doing the
   design summit, or midcycles, or $OTHER).
* Plenty of other reasons that I'm probably not aware of.

This same topic was reviewed at [yesterday's office
hours](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-06.log.html#t2018-03-06T09:19:32).

For now, the next 2018 PTG is going to happen (destination unknown) but
plans for 2019 are still being discussed.

If you have opinions about the PTG, there will be an opportunity to
express them in a forthcoming survey. Beyond that, however, it is
important [that management at contributing
companies](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-06.log.html#t2018-03-06T22:29:24)
hear from more people (notably their employees) than the foundation
about the value of the PTG.

My own position is that of the three different styles of in-person
events for technical contributors to OpenStack that I've experienced
(design summit, mid-cycles, PTG), the PTG is the best yet. It minimizes
distractions from other obligations (customer meetings, presentations,
marketing requirements) while maximizing cross-project interaction.

One idea, discussed
[yesterday](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-06.log.html#t2018-03-06T22:02:24)
and [earlier
today](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-07.log.html#t2018-03-07T05:07:20)
was to have the PTG be open to technical participants of any sort, not
just so-called "OpenStack developers". Make it more of a place for
people who hack on and with OpenStack to hack and talk. Leave the
summit (without a forum) for presentations, marketing, pre-sales, etc.

An issue raised with conflating the PTG and the Forum is that it would
remove the
[inward/outward focus](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-07.log.html#t2018-03-07T08:20:17)
concept that is supposed to distinguish the two events.

I guess it depends on how we define "we" but I've always assumed that
both events were for outward focus and that for any inward focussing
effort we ought to be able use asynchronous tools more.

# Foundation and OCI

Thierry mentioned
[yesterday](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-06.log.html#t2018-03-06T09:08:04)
that it is likely that the OpenStack Foundation will join the [Open
Container Initiative](https://www.opencontainers.org/) because of
[Kata](https://katacontainers.io/) and
[LOCI](https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/loci.html).

This segued into some brief concerns about the [attentions and
intentions of the
Foundation](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2018-03-06.log.html#t2018-03-06T09:13:34),
aggravated by the board meeting schedule conflict (there's agreement
that will never ever happen again), and the rumor milling about the
PTG.

# Friday at the PTG with the TC

The TC had scheduled a half day of discussion for Friday at the PTG. A
big [agenda](https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PTG-Dublin-TC-topics), a
fun filled week, and the snow meant we went nearly all day (and since
there's no place to go, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk) with some
reasonable progress. Some highlights:

* There was some discussion on trying to move forward with
   constellations concept, but I don't recall specific outcomes from
   that discussion.

* The team diversity tags need to be updated to reflect adjustments in
   the very high bars we set earlier in the history of OpenStack. We
   agreed to not remove projects from the tc-approved tag, as that
   could be taken the wrong way. Instead we'll create a new tag for
   projects that are in the trademark program.

* Rather than having Long Term Support, which implies too much, a
   better thing to do is enable [extended
   maintenance](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/548916/) for those
   parties who want to do it.

* Heat was approved to be a part of the trademark program, but then
   there were issues with where to put their tests and the tooling used
   to manage them. By the power of getting the right people in the room
   at the same time, we reached some consensus which is being finalized
   on a [proposed
   resolution](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/521602/).

* We need to make an official timeline for the deprecation (and
   eventual removal) of support for Python 2, meaning we also need to
   accelerate the adoption of Python 3 as the primary environment.

* In a discussion about the availability of
   [etcd](https://coreos.com/etcd/) it was decided that [tooz needs to
   be
   finished](https://docs.openstack.org/tooz/latest/user/compatibility.html).

See the
[etherpad](https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PTG-Dublin-TC-topics) for
additional details.

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