Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2015-11-13 15:10:24 +0100: > So.. quick summary of this thread so far. > > (-) > * Not enough work to warrant a designated "team", now that the work is > decentralized and the cats are mostly herding themselves > * The change is unlikely to bring a meaningful improvement to the > situation, or sudden new resources > > (+) > * An empowered team could tackle new coordination tasks, like engaging > more directly in converging stable branch rules across teams, or > producing tools > * Release management doesn't overlap anymore with stable branch, so > having them under that PTL is limiting and inefficient > * Reinforcing the branding (by giving it its own team) may encourage > more organizations to affect new resources to it > > In summary, I think this is worth a try. If the team fails, at least it > will be on its own rather than as the 5th squeaky wheel of release > management (where lack of leadership and focus could be rightly blamed > for failure). > > For this to succeed, we need someone to own the effort and push it > forward, and a number of people caring enough about it to attend regular > meetings about it and to lurk on #openstack-stable. I'm fine helping the > team in the spin-off effort but I don't want to lead it (I proved I was > unable to make it my top priority in the past, so I think the team > deserves a more focused lead). > > Erno has volunteered to lead. Ihar, Alan (Pevec) and myself don't have > enough time to lead but are happy to help. Anyone else interested to > join that initial group ? Flavio ? Matt ? > > Once we have a list of key members we should set up a meeting to discuss > the details. >
I'm willing to help with the initial team setup, working out the details, transitioning ownership of docs, etc. I'm not sure how much time I'll have to devote to other stable-related activities this cycle, but may have more in the future. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
