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Lingxian Kong <anlin.kong at gmail.com> writes:

> I was supposed to volunteer myself being Ceilometer PTL because we have
> also deployed Ceilometer in production. I haven't contributed Ceilometer
> for several dev cycles but I'm familiar with Ceilometer code (and Aodh as
> well), and I am an active contributor for OpenStack for 6 years.
>
> Trinh chatted with me in IRC for the same interest in Ceilometer as they
> are also using Ceilometer and Aodh in production. I'm very happy he could
> help because maybe I'll be too busy with maintaining two other projects. I
> (and other developers in our company) can definitely help if needed.
>
> Personally, I think being a PTL not only means the one who has contributed
> a lot, but also means the one who is willing to help the project developers
> and users, and doing the common tasks in order to coordinate with the whole
> community, most importantly, the one who is the real user of a
> project.

I agree, although it is a little concerning that the contributor base
for the project is so small.

I am excited to have new contributors pick the project up, so thank you
for volunteering!

Doug

>
>
> Cheers,
> Lingxian Kong
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:31 AM Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW: Trinh has done an excellent job with Searchlight, so I think the
>> project would be in great hands.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Mar 18, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>>

-- 
Doug