[Openstack-sigs] [User-committee] [product][meta] Disbanding the Product Working Group
Yih Leong, Sun.
yihleong at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 23:11:01 UTC 2018
Thank you folks!
It has been a great time working with all the people who have been involved
in the process...
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you Shamail, Arkady, Gerald, Rocky, Leong, and if anyone still keeps
> in touch with Carol give her our gratitude for the work you all and others
> have done.
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Shamail Tahir <itzshamail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi User Committee and Meta-SIG,
>>
>> PWG presented a proposal to disband the working group at the OpenStack
>> Foundation Board meeting yesterday and the board agreed with our assessment
>> and recommendation. This message is to formally request for the WG to be
>> wrapped up (since it is under UC governance) and also to share relevant
>> information with the Meta-SIG team...
>>
>> We believe that relatively recent changes in the OpenStack community
>> (within the last year) allow for objectives such as cross project
>> coordination/collaboration, WG/Project team collaboration, and building
>> multi-release directional guidance in a distributed manner across our
>> community. This means that most of the goals of the product working group
>> charter now have better avenues for delivery than within the group itself.
>>
>> The three major goals for the Product Working Group were:
>>
>> - Creating a community-generated multi-release roadmap
>> - Collect feedback and aggregate requirements from our user-base and
>> the various 'markets' where OpenStack clouds have been adopted
>> - Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and track implementation of
>> development proposals
>>
>>
>> Each of these goals is being pursued through various structures and
>> initiatives within the OpenStack community at this point:
>>
>> - The PWG roadmap sub-team was spun off from the Product Working
>> Group and is being led by Anne Bertucio from the OpenStack Foundation (this
>> team is looking for more volunteers, so please let Anne know if you are
>> interested!)
>> - The forum event allows for both individual teams and SIGs to
>> discuss requirements directly with stakeholders and users
>> - The advent of SIGs allows for greater collaboration between
>> developers, operators, users, and other stakeholders within the same group.
>> - Cross-project efforts that require collaboration between teams to
>> deliver a capability can be facilitated through the SIG construct and
>> things that we would like to see adopted across all projects can be
>> addressed via release goals.
>>
>> The development proposal workflow we created within the PWG, we believe,
>> could provide SIGs with a useful framework on how ideas can be taken from
>> concept to implementation in a repeatable manner. If the Meta-SIG is
>> interested in learning more about the workflow, the core members from the
>> PWG would be glad to join a meeting to discuss the workflow and help
>> transition it to the Meta-SIG. Please let us know!
>>
>> The core members of the Product Working Group would like to thank
>> everyone who contributed in this working group (including OpenStack
>> Foundation staff) and helped pave the way for a successful exit! It has
>> been an amazing journey over the last 3 years and we want to thank the
>> OpenStack community for working with us along the way and making this a
>> rewarding experience.
>>
>> Link to PWG Board presentation: https://docs.goo
>> gle.com/presentation/d/17Z5vCfZDO3GO2DP4ckIqokSpVfLY1NQAo5dsuzxj-7A
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Product Working Group Core Team
>> (Arkady Kanevsky, Gerald Kunzmann, Rochelle Grober, Shamail Tahir, & Yih
>> Sun Leong)
>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Melvin Hillsman
> mrhillsman at gmail.com
> mobile: (832) 264-2646
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