confirmed On 04/22/2015 05:26 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: > Hey fellow developers, > > I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election > that's happening. > > > TL;DR: Vote for me to bring back the fun and raise the bar! :) > > > As you might know, I've been a member of the OpenStack community for > several years now, and I actually already seated at the TC, back when > PTL had a seat. I've been leading Ceilometer for a while, and I'm still > active in this project, as I recently started and pushed Gnocchi¹ in > OpenStack. I contribute also to Oslo and other OpenStack projects for a > very long time now. > > Let's jump to the hot topics. > > The TC decided to open the gates for what goes into OpenStack, and > that's great, as trying to control that was totally failing. > Now there's a work ongoing about classifying projects under tags, and > I've absolutely no idea why the TC should be responsible for this > ultimately. This really looks like something that could be built and > decided by the entire community. I don't think I want to spend too much > time on this anyway. > > I think OpenStack has way too much bureaucracy. The whole project is > glued in tons of processes that slows everything down for little value. > I see people writing code that is refused because there's no spec, specs > not reviewed because there's no code, and people frustrated because they > have to wait 3 months to have a brain-dead one-liner fix to get merged. > While I recognized there are some upside to this processes, this has > gone too far and I want OpenStack to become more agile (there, I said > it). > > I've pushed the idea recently in Gnocchi that the bar should be raised > about documentation. We've set the same rule for documentation that we > had for unit and functional testing: a patch with no documentation or no > unit tests or no functional tests is refused. This allowed us to build a > complete and (almost) properly documented and fully tested project from > scratch in less than a year. That's an idea I'd like to push further in > other OpenStack projects. > > I hope and I think I'm continually striving to make OpenStack better as > a whole and I want to push that further in all projects so that we can > go faster to push our vision out. > > It seems to me that the TC had a very small power so far to influence > the community and projects, though I hope we'll anyway be able to reach > out to the projects in an efficient way to communicate our ideas! > > > Happy hacking! > > > ¹ http://launchpad.net/gnocchi > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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