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Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 17 2019, Trinh Nguyen wrote:
>
> Hi Trinh,
>
>> Because no one want to nominate for the PTL in Train [1], Telemetry has
>> been marked as a leaderless project and may be removed of OpenStack. We and
>> some companies are still using Ceilometer, AODH (parts of Telemetry) so we
>> don't want that happen.
>>
>> Lingxian Kong (Trove and Qinling PTL), I (cc Julien Danjou, the current PTL
>> of Telemetry) had a conversation about this and agree to work together to
>> maintain the Telemetry projects. So I'm writing this email stating that I
>> would like to volunteer to be the PTL for Telemetry in Train.
>>
>> Though I haven't been directly involved in the development of Telemetry
>> ever, my experience as Searchlight PTL and core in Fenix and Freezer give
>> me some technical understanding of Telemetry as well as OpenStack
>> development procedure. You're in the good hands.
>
> I'm glad reading that people are still interested in Telemetry!
>
> How do you envision leading a project you never contributed to? I'm
> wondering how someone can do that in practice.
> Or do you see that just role being a straw-man job to avoid the project
> for being tagged as abandoned?
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Julien Danjou
> // Free Software hacker
> // https://julien.danjou.info

Without another volunteer, I'm not sure I see an alternative between
shutting the project down and letting someone who has not contributed
try to take it over. Do you have something else to propose?

-- 
Doug