Open Stack

Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> writes:

> As you know, StoryBoard development was mostly abandoned by its original
> development team, following the Infra team decision to no longer make it
> its long-term strategy for OpenStack task tracking.
>
> However, development was recently rebooted by two new contributors: Adam
> Coldrick (SotK) and Zara Zaimeche (Zara_). Their contributions are now
> blocked by the lack of core reviewers. I approved what I could (in
> openstack-infra/storyboard). Their changes and reviews sound solid. But
> that is not really the question: since they are the only two active
> developers on StoryBoard today, I think both should be core reviewers
> for those repositories.
>
> The alternative is to put them into a world of change approval misery as
> they try to convince people who have moved away from StoryBoard to pay
> enough attention to it to allow them to merge their changes. There is
> only so much pain you can endure: it will ultimately result in them
> forking their future development on another platform. To avoid that, I'd
> rather reboot the team completely and give them the keys.

I think that sounds good.  My main concern is that storyboard stay
stable and usable at least as long as we are using it.  If they can
support that, I'm happy to add them to core.  I suspect this won't be a
problem since they are also using it in production.

-Jim