Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700: So Thierry I agree. Developers are required to make it happen. I would say however that acknowledging the importance of developer contributions and selecting leadership from the development community is really half the battle as

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/05/15 18:10, Adam Lawson wrote: I think the ATC thing came up as one avenue to explore when folks were trying to figure out ways to quantify Operator involvement for the purpose of identifying who are actively contributing to OpenStack versus those who are fans/users of OpenStack but

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Adam Lawson
Doug, it isn't about me or about trying to add more to the pool of one type of contributor from a different pool of individuals with a different skillset or about attempting to make shortcuts to leadership as you so delicately put it. Frankly I think you're missing the point. When there is a

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-05 07:01:48 -0700: Doug, it isn't about me or about trying to add more to the pool of one type of contributor from a different pool of individuals with a different skillset or about attempting to make shortcuts to leadership as you so delicately

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/05/15 16:01, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700: So Thierry I agree. Developers are required to make it happen. I would say however that acknowledging the importance of developer contributions and selecting leadership from the

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Adam Lawson
I think the ATC thing came up as one avenue to explore when folks were trying to figure out ways to quantify Operator involvement for the purpose of identifying who are actively contributing to OpenStack versus those who are fans/users of OpenStack but don't have time right now to contribute more

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Thierry Carrez
Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: It is not only the representation - it is also action on the feedback. There was an OPS summit not so long ago in Philadelphia [1]. Two full days. I personally did not participate but from what I heard it was a good two days of discussions. It was. I was there.

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-05 18:00:15 +0300: On 05/05/15 16:01, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700: So Thierry I agree. Developers are required to make it happen. I would say however that acknowledging the

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Allamaraju, Subbu
Thiery - Most operators are busy fighting operational battles, scale out etc. It is often an all-hands-on-the-deck job. I don’t think we should just measure by contributors getting work done. The work is often silent, and lags behind the dev cycle. Subbu On May 4, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Thierry

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 05/05/2015 18:00, Thierry Carrez a écrit : Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: It is not only the representation - it is also action on the feedback. There was an OPS summit not so long ago in Philadelphia [1]. Two full days. I personally did not participate but from what I heard it was a good

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/05/15 19:14, Sylvain Bauza wrote: Le 05/05/2015 18:00, Thierry Carrez a écrit : Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: It is not only the representation - it is also action on the feedback. There was an OPS summit not so long ago in Philadelphia [1]. Two full days. I personally did not

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
I think that this will be my last say on this matter, because it seems to be getting out of hand. Us vs. them. Dev vs. Ops. It could be perceived that I am trying to wage a 'war' on the OpenStack development process, on the Developers, but that is not the case. But I do think there are valid

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 05/05/2015 18:41, Maish Saidel-Keesing a écrit : On 05/05/15 19:14, Sylvain Bauza wrote: Le 05/05/2015 18:00, Thierry Carrez a écrit : Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: It is not only the representation - it is also action on the feedback. There was an OPS summit not so long ago in

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Dean Troyer
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing mais...@maishsk.com wrote: And perhaps it could also be a good idea to have developers deploy and operate a highly available geographically dispersed OpenStack implementation trying to adhere to a defined SLA? Many do. Don't forget that

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/05/15 19:00, Thierry Carrez wrote: Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: It is not only the representation - it is also action on the feedback. There was an OPS summit not so long ago in Philadelphia [1]. Two full days. I personally did not participate but from what I heard it was a good two

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/05/15 19:22, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-05 18:00:15 +0300: On 05/05/15 16:01, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700: So Thierry I agree. Developers are required to make it happen. I would

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-05 19:52:24 +0300: On 05/05/15 19:22, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-05 18:00:15 +0300: On 05/05/15 16:01, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-05 Thread Tim Bell
On 5/5/15, 6:52 PM, Maish Saidel-Keesing mais...@maishsk.com wrote: On 05/05/15 19:22, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-05 18:00:15 +0300: On 05/05/15 16:01, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700: ups

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Thierry Carrez
Morgan Fainberg wrote: On Friday, May 1, 2015, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 05/01/2015 02:22 PM, Tim Bell wrote: The spec review process has made it much easier for operators to see what is being proposed and give input.

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Anita Kuno
I'd like to go back to the beginning to clarify something. On 04/29/2015 02:34 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want to hi-jack that so I figured I'd present my question as a more general question about how voting is handled for the

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 05/04/15 17:07, Anita Kuno wrote: I'd like to go back to the beginning to clarify something. On 04/29/2015 02:34 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want to hi-jack that so I figured I'd present my question as a more general question

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Anita Kuno
On 05/04/2015 10:46 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: On 05/04/15 17:07, Anita Kuno wrote: I'd like to go back to the beginning to clarify something. On 04/29/2015 02:34 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want to hi-jack that so I

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Thierry Carrez
Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: A three point triangle. I like the idea! Anita I assume that you are talking about the TC[3], the board [1] and the user committee [2]. I honestly do not see this at the moment as an equally weighted triangle. Should they be? Perhaps not, maybe yes. It could be

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-04 17:46:21 +0300: On 05/04/15 17:07, Anita Kuno wrote: I'd like to go back to the beginning to clarify something. On 04/29/2015 02:34 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Adam Lawson
So Thierry I agree. Developers are required to make it happen. I would say however that acknowledging the importance of developer contributions and selecting leadership from the development community is really half the battle as it's pretty rare to see project teams led and governed by only

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Dague
On 05/04/2015 01:11 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-04 17:46:21 +0300: On 05/04/15 17:07, Anita Kuno wrote: I'd like to go back to the beginning to clarify something. On 04/29/2015 02:34 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: So I started replying to Doug's

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-04 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-05-04 10:25:10 -0700 (-0700), Adam Lawson wrote: [...] it's pretty rare to see project teams led and governed by only developers. [...] Not sure what other free software projects you've worked on/with before but not only is it not rare, it's the vast majority of them. -- Jeremy Stanley

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Joshua Harlow
Davanum Srinivas wrote: One concrete suggestion based on my experience working with Kris Lindgren on Heartbeat patch: http://markmail.org/message/gifrt5f3mslco24j I could have added a Co-Tested-By (or Co-Operator - get it? :) in my commit message which would have signaled a concrete

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-05-01 09:06:20 -0700: So this is an interesting idea. Would we require operators co-author/review all patches that land? if not (and that actually strikes me as making uploading patches more difficult unnecessarily), My question is how Operators can

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Adam Lawson
So this is an interesting idea. Would we require operators co-author/review all patches that land? if not (and that actually strikes me as making uploading patches more difficult unnecessarily), My question is how Operators can easily get involved with that process. If Operators want to get

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Morgan Fainberg
On Friday, May 1, 2015, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 05/01/2015 02:22 PM, Tim Bell wrote: The spec review process has made it much easier for operators to see what is being proposed and give input. Recognition is a different topic. It also comes into who would be the

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Tim Bell
The spec review process has made it much easier for operators to see what is being proposed and give input. Recognition is a different topic. It also comes into who would be the operator/user electorate ? ATC is simple to define where the equivalent operator/user definition is less clear.

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Russell Bryant
On 05/01/2015 02:22 PM, Tim Bell wrote: The spec review process has made it much easier for operators to see what is being proposed and give input. Recognition is a different topic. It also comes into who would be the operator/user electorate ? ATC is simple to define where the equivalent

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-05-01 Thread Adam Lawson
I purposely didn't email the general mailing list since I didn't want to cross-post, hard to have these discussions across verticals and choosing one list = hearing one community - those subscribed to the developer mailing list. So I'm not assuming anything, it seems some are suggesting that

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 04/30/15 10:15, Thierry Carrez wrote: Doug Hellmann wrote: Anyway, I find it curious that the TC is elected by those within the developer community but TC candidates talk about representing the operator community who are not allowed to vote. Operators meaning Admins, Architects, etc. It

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Thierry Carrez
Doug Hellmann wrote: Anyway, I find it curious that the TC is elected by those within the developer community but TC candidates talk about representing the operator community who are not allowed to vote. Operators meaning Admins, Architects, etc. It sounds like this is something most TC

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 30/04/15 12:07 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: On 04/30/15 10:15, Thierry Carrez wrote: Doug Hellmann wrote: Anyway, I find it curious that the TC is elected by those within the developer community but TC candidates talk about representing the operator

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Lawson
For the record, thanks for your replies guys. I am not suggesting any specific means to resolve or suggesting what we're doing is wrong; only that the current structure seems odd. The TC charter, as I read it, states that the TC committee represents everything of a technical nature of OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Davanum Srinivas
One concrete suggestion based on my experience working with Kris Lindgren on Heartbeat patch: http://markmail.org/message/gifrt5f3mslco24j I could have added a Co-Tested-By (or Co-Operator - get it? :) in my commit message which would have signaled a concrete contribution/feedback with specific

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Collins
On 1 May 2015 at 13:24, Davanum Srinivas dava...@gmail.com wrote: One concrete suggestion based on my experience working with Kris Lindgren on Heartbeat patch: http://markmail.org/message/gifrt5f3mslco24j I could have added a Co-Tested-By (or Co-Operator - get it? :) in my commit message

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Lawson
I think it's easy to quantify a code contributor since we have systems that monitor activity - who contributed, what they contributed and when. But we don't have a system that monitors operator activity and honestly, that's the question mark for which I really don't have any answers. That might be

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 12:26 +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote: I've seen the number of threads to discuss Ops topics increase in openstack-dev and the influence of Ops - even just points of views inherited from the feedback we've got - on reviews has gotten better as well. Fantastic, that has

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Adam Lawson alaw...@aqorn.com wrote: Anyway, I find it curious that the TC is elected by those within the developer community but TC candidates talk about representing the operator community who are not allowed to vote. Operators meaning Admins, Architects,

[openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Adam Lawson
So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want to hi-jack that so I figured I'd present my question as a more general question about how voting is handled for the TC. Anyway, I find it curious that the TC is elected by those within the developer community but TC

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Adam Lawson's message of 2015-04-29 11:34:40 -0700: So I started replying to Doug's email in a different thread but didn't want to hi-jack that so I figured I'd present my question as a more general question about how voting is handled for the TC. Anyway, I find it curious that