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On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 18:00, Radosław Piliszek 
<radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

Thanks Stephen for raising this.


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

I think that would be a nice exercise for the DPL concept.

Cheers,
gibi