On 12/09/15 04:03, Zane Bitter wrote:
The Heat project pioneered the concept of rotating the PTL for every
development cycle, and so far all of the early (before 2013)
developers who are still involved have served as PTL. I think this has
been a *tremendous* success for the project, and a testament to the
sheer depth of leadership talent that we are fortunate to have (as
well as, it must be said, to Thierry and the release management team
and their ability to quickly bring new people up to speed every
cycle). We're already seeing a lot of other projects moving toward the
PTL role having a shorter time horizon, and I suspect the main reason
they're not moving more rapidly in that direction is that it takes
time to build up the expectation of rotating succession and make sure
that the leaders within each project are preparing to take their turn.
So I like to think that we've been a good influence on the whole
OpenStack community in this respect :)
(I'd also note that this expectation is very helpful in terms of
spreading the workload around and reducing the amount of work that
falls on a single person. To the extent that it is possible to be the
PTL of the Heat project and still get some real work done, not just
clicking on things in Launchpad - though, be warned, there is still
quite a bit of that involved.)
However, there is one area in which we have not yet been as
successful: so far all of the PTLs have been folks that were early
developers of the project. IMHO it's time for that to change: we have
built an amazing team of folks since then who are great leaders in the
community and who now have the experience to step up. I can think of
at least 4 excellent potential candidates just off the top of my head.
Zane is absolutely correct, I only became PTL again because we needed to
prime the pump for successors. I too can think of many potentials who
would be more than capable of taking this on for Mitaka and beyond.
One thing about being PTL is that the mindset and habits never leave
you. Ongoing tasks such as bug triage, stable backports, and keeping the
gate healthy continue into PTL retirement. In this sense I see a health
metric of the culture of a project as being how many ex-PTLs continue to
be engaged with it (leaving aside the many legitimate reasons people may
have for moving on to other projects).
Obviously there is a time commitment involved - in fact Flavio's
entire blog post[1] is great and you should definitely read that first
- but if you are already devoting a majority of your time to the
upstream Heat project and you think this is likely to be sustainable
for the next 6 months, then please run for PTL!
(You may safely infer from this that I won't be running this time.)
(And neither will I :)
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