Hi, I'd like to apologize to all of the people who worked hard on researching and proposing names for the M release that did not appear in the poll.
When we worked on the new method for choosing a name, we did so with the idea that the entire process should be public and that the community is equipped to make good choices about names in the poll itself; options do not need to be pre-filtered. That's why nominations happen on the wiki, we use condorcet voting, and there is very little discretion in the process for adding or removing names. With that in mind, as well as our predilection for stretching the bounds of the naming criteria to find interesting names, I intentionally left specification of the geographical boundaries vague. The discussion up to that point had included the phrase "at least related to the location," so I felt that a generally inclusive approach would work, and if we ended up with 10, 20, or 50 names on the poll, I was certain that we would be able to handle it. I, and as evidenced by the entries on the nomination page, many others, believed that in this case the country of Japan was a suitable enclosing region for the names. In area, it is smaller than both Texas and California -- regions we have previously used with some success. At any rate, it is a reasonable belief, but that is now beside the point. After completing the nomination period with names helpfully categorized according to whether people believed they met or did not meet the criteria, and after the TC discussed the list and some members noted with approval the large number of conforming names, a choice was made in private to reduce the geographical region to Tokyo itself. This is also a reasonable choice, and my issue is not with it, but with the way it was made: privately, without input from the community, and after the nominations had closed. It may have been with the best intentions, but it was very unfair to the people who worked hard preparing the 24 names that were removed from consideration. I wrote the intentionally vague language that resulted in this misunderstanding, and I apologize for it. I will propose a clarification to the naming process intended to avoid this kind of confusion in the future. -Jim __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
