[placement][nova][cinder][neutron][blazar] Placement governance switch(back)

Radosław Piliszek radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 16:00:10 UTC 2020


On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 5:24 PM Stephen Finucane <stephenfin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Placement has been a separate project with its own governance since
> Stein [1]. Since then, the main drivers behind the separation have
> moved onto pastures new and with Tetsuro sadly declaring his non-
> candidacy for the PTL position for Wallaby [2], we're left in the
> unenviable position of potentially not having a PTL for the Wallaby
> cycle. As such, it's probably time to discuss the future of Placement
> governance.
>
> Assuming no one steps forward for the Placement PTL role, it would
> appear to me that we have two options. Either we look at transitioning
> Placement to a PTL-less project, or we move it back under nova
> governance. To be honest, given how important placement is to nova and
> other projects now, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of not having a
> point person who is ultimately responsible for things like cutting a
> release (yes, delegation is encouraged but someone needs to herd the
> cats). At the same time, I do realize that placement is used by more
> that nova now so nova cores and what's left of the separate placement
> core team shouldn't be the only ones making this decision.
>
> So, assuming the worst happens and placement is left without a PTL for
> Victoria, what do we want to do?

Run DPL with liaisons from the interested projects perhaps? :-)

> Stephen
>
> PS: Apologies if I missed other projects with an interest in placement.
> I did try to catch them all /o\

I know of Zun.

-yoctozepto



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