Hi stackers, it goes without saying that working on cross-project stuff in OpenStack is quite hard task.
Because it's always hard to align something between a lot of people from different project. And when topic start being too "HOT" the discussion goes in wrong direction and attempt to do cross project change fails, as a result maybe not *ideal* but *good enough* change in OpenStack will be abandoned. The another issue that we have are "specs". Projects are asking to make spec for change in their project, and in case of cross project stuff you need to make N similar specs (for every project). That is really hard to manage, and as a result you have N different specs that are describing the similar stuff. To make this process more formal, clear and simple, let's reuse process of "specs" but do it in one repo /openstack/cross-project-specs. It means that every cross project topic: Unification of python clients, Unification of logging, profiling, debugging api, bunch of others will be discussed in one single place.. Process description of cross-project-specs: - PTL - person that mange core team members list and puts workflow +1 on accepted specs - Every project have 1 core position (stackforge projects are included) - Cores are chosen by project team, they task is to advocate project team opinion - No more veto, and -2 votes - If > 75% cores +1 spec it's accepted. It means that all project have to accept this change. - Accepted specs gret high priority blueprints in all projects With such simple rules we will simplify cross project work: 1) Fair rules for all projects, as every project has 1 core that has 1 vote. 2) Small team that works on cross project features. 3) Faster adoption of cross features 4) Single person/project is not able to block adoption of feature 5) Code unification between projects. E.g. single feature has same implementation in all projects, and this specification is specified in spec. This is just a draft. Any thoughts and ideas are welcome. Best regards, Boris Pavlovic
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