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Melanie,

Good topic here:

On 3/19/2020 3:48 PM, melanie witt wrote:
> On 3/19/20 10:23, Balázs Gibizer wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Nova has an unwritten rule that requires to have at least two 
>> companies involved in any new feature development (or even bugfix?). 
>> In the current Nova core diversity situation this rule puts extra 
>> burden to the remaining non Red Hat cores and I guess it also makes 
>> any Red Hat driven feature development harder. In parallel to working 
>> on increasing the size of the core team I suggest to reconsider 
>> dropping this rule.
>
Cinder has also followed this rule in the past but I think that the 
enforcement has slipped as our pool of cores has gotten smaller.  I have 
not seen it cause any issues.

> I have historically always appreciated the two-company approval rule 
> because it ensures each patch has been reviewed with at least two 
> different and diverse company perspectives.
>
I think, historically this was also intended to prevent one company from 
unfairly imposing its will upon the community.  Now that development has 
slowed and wills are not so strong I think this is less of a concern.
> However I recognize that the situation has changed over time and we 
> may not have the luxury any longer to ensure diverse company 
> approvals. I do not wish to overburden the remaining non Red Hat cores 
> with review requests for approvals.
>
> So, given the evolved landscape, I am understanding and open to adapt 
> our process to drop the two-company rule if there is such consensus in 
> the rest of the team.
>
Support this if there is consensus from the team.


> Cheers,
> -melanie
>
>> Some discussion happened already on the today's meeting[1].
>>
>> Cheers,
>> gibi
>>
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>> [1] 
>> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2020/nova.2020-03-19-16.00.log.html#l-90 
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