Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Rob C's message of 2016-11-30 18:38:53 +:
> [Resending without the PTLs in CC because it got my mail stuck in the spam
> filters]
> 
> I'm struggling to find good info on when the adjusted PTL nomination cycle
> starts.
> 
> I've checked here: https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.
> html#pike-ptls-self-nomination but it looks like the 'elections' section
> was supposed to be added to the table and wasn't.
> 
> I know from the updates to the charter that the elections should happen on
> or before R-3 but it doesn't provide any clarity on how much before then
> the nominations should be made?
> 
> Cheers
> -Rob

Thierry proposed some dates in https://review.openstack.org/404275 but
we need to get the elections team to sign off on them before they're
official.

Doug

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Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-12-01 Thread Rob Cresswell (rcresswe)
It looks like your email was already replied to:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-November/108141.html


On 30 Nov 2016, at 18:38, Rob C mailto:hyaku...@gmail.com>> 
wrote:

[Resending without the PTLs in CC because it got my mail stuck in the spam 
filters]

I'm struggling to find good info on when the adjusted PTL nomination cycle 
starts.

I've checked here: 
https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html#pike-ptls-self-nomination 
but it looks like the 'elections' section was supposed to be added to the table 
and wasn't.

I know from the updates to the charter that the elections should happen on or 
before R-3 but it doesn't provide any clarity on how much before then the 
nominations should be made?

Cheers
-Rob

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Doug Hellmann 
mailto:d...@doughellmann.com>> wrote:
PTLs,

As we did for the Mitaka and Newton cycles, I want to start this
cycle by making sure the expectations for communications with the
release team are clear to everyone so there is no confusion or
miscommunication about any of the process or deadlines. This
email is being sent to the openstack-dev mailing list as well as
the PTLs of all official OpenStack projects individually, to
improve the odds that all of the PTLs see it.  I will not be
taking the extra step of CCing individual PTLs or liaisons for
future emails.

(If you were a PTL last cycle, you may want to skip ahead to the
Things for you to do right now section at the end.)

Volunteers filling PTL and liaison positions are responsible for
ensuring communication between project teams happens smoothly. As
a community, we rely on three primary communication
strategies/tools for different purposes:

1. Email, for announcements and for asynchronous communication.

  We will be using the "[release]" topic tag on the openstack-dev
  mailing list for important messages related to release
  management.  Besides special announcements and instructions, I
  will send the countdown emails I sent last cycle, with weekly
  updates on focus, tasks, and upcoming dates. PTLs and release
  liaisons should configure your mailing list subscription and
  email client to ensure that those messages are visible (and
  then read them) so that you are aware of all deadlines, process
  changes, etc.

2. IRC, for time-sensitive interactions.

  There are far too many of you (56) to make it realistic for the
  three members of the release team to track you down
  individually when there is a deadline. We need you to do your
  part by making yourself available by configuring your IRC
  bouncer to listen in #openstack-release. You are, of course,
  welcome to stay in channel all the time, but you need to be
  there at least during deadline periods (the week before and
  week of each deadline).

3. Written documentation, for relatively stable information.

  The release team has published the schedule for the Ocata cycle
  to http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html. Although
  I will highlight dates in the countdown emails, you may want to
  add important dates from the schedule to your calendar.

  Some projects have also added their own project-specific
  deadlines to that list. If you have something unique, please
  feel free to update it by patching the openstack/releases
  repository. There is no need to add a project-specific deadline
  that is the same as the global deadline.

The Ocata cycle overlaps with several major holidays, including
the new year. If you are planning time off, please make sure your
duties are being covered by someone else on the team. Its best to
let the release team know in advance so we dont delay approval
for release requests from someone we dont recognize, waiting for
your +1.

Please ensure that the release liaison for your project has the
time and ability to handle the communication necessary to manage
your release.  The release team is here to facilitate, but
finishing the work of preparing the release is ultimately the
responsibility of the project team. Failing to follow through on
a needed process step may block you from successfully meeting
deadlines or releasing.  Our release milestones and deadlines are
date-based, not feature-based.  When the date passes, so does the
milestone. If you miss it, you miss it. A few of you ran into
problems in past cycles because of missed communications. My goal
is to have all teams meet all deadlines during Ocata. We came
very very close for Newton; please help by keeping up to date on
deadlines.


Things for you to do right now:

1. Update your cross-project liaison on
   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#Release_management

2. Make sure your IRC nickname and email address listed in
   
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml
   are correct. The release team, foundation staff, and TC all
   use those contact details to try to reach you at important
   points during the cycle.  Please make sure they are corr

Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-30 Thread Rob C
[Resending without the PTLs in CC because it got my mail stuck in the spam
filters]

I'm struggling to find good info on when the adjusted PTL nomination cycle
starts.

I've checked here: https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.
html#pike-ptls-self-nomination but it looks like the 'elections' section
was supposed to be added to the table and wasn't.

I know from the updates to the charter that the elections should happen on
or before R-3 but it doesn't provide any clarity on how much before then
the nominations should be made?

Cheers
-Rob

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Doug Hellmann  wrote:

> PTLs,
>
> As we did for the Mitaka and Newton cycles, I want to start this
> cycle by making sure the expectations for communications with the
> release team are clear to everyone so there is no confusion or
> miscommunication about any of the process or deadlines. This
> email is being sent to the openstack-dev mailing list as well as
> the PTLs of all official OpenStack projects individually, to
> improve the odds that all of the PTLs see it.  I will not be
> taking the extra step of CCing individual PTLs or liaisons for
> future emails.
>
> (If you were a PTL last cycle, you may want to skip ahead to the
> Things for you to do right now section at the end.)
>
> Volunteers filling PTL and liaison positions are responsible for
> ensuring communication between project teams happens smoothly. As
> a community, we rely on three primary communication
> strategies/tools for different purposes:
>
> 1. Email, for announcements and for asynchronous communication.
>
>   We will be using the "[release]" topic tag on the openstack-dev
>   mailing list for important messages related to release
>   management.  Besides special announcements and instructions, I
>   will send the countdown emails I sent last cycle, with weekly
>   updates on focus, tasks, and upcoming dates. PTLs and release
>   liaisons should configure your mailing list subscription and
>   email client to ensure that those messages are visible (and
>   then read them) so that you are aware of all deadlines, process
>   changes, etc.
>
> 2. IRC, for time-sensitive interactions.
>
>   There are far too many of you (56) to make it realistic for the
>   three members of the release team to track you down
>   individually when there is a deadline. We need you to do your
>   part by making yourself available by configuring your IRC
>   bouncer to listen in #openstack-release. You are, of course,
>   welcome to stay in channel all the time, but you need to be
>   there at least during deadline periods (the week before and
>   week of each deadline).
>
> 3. Written documentation, for relatively stable information.
>
>   The release team has published the schedule for the Ocata cycle
>   to http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html. Although
>   I will highlight dates in the countdown emails, you may want to
>   add important dates from the schedule to your calendar.
>
>   Some projects have also added their own project-specific
>   deadlines to that list. If you have something unique, please
>   feel free to update it by patching the openstack/releases
>   repository. There is no need to add a project-specific deadline
>   that is the same as the global deadline.
>
> The Ocata cycle overlaps with several major holidays, including
> the new year. If you are planning time off, please make sure your
> duties are being covered by someone else on the team. Its best to
> let the release team know in advance so we dont delay approval
> for release requests from someone we dont recognize, waiting for
> your +1.
>
> Please ensure that the release liaison for your project has the
> time and ability to handle the communication necessary to manage
> your release.  The release team is here to facilitate, but
> finishing the work of preparing the release is ultimately the
> responsibility of the project team. Failing to follow through on
> a needed process step may block you from successfully meeting
> deadlines or releasing.  Our release milestones and deadlines are
> date-based, not feature-based.  When the date passes, so does the
> milestone. If you miss it, you miss it. A few of you ran into
> problems in past cycles because of missed communications. My goal
> is to have all teams meet all deadlines during Ocata. We came
> very very close for Newton; please help by keeping up to date on
> deadlines.
>
>
> Things for you to do right now:
>
> 1. Update your cross-project liaison on
>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#Release_management
>
> 2. Make sure your IRC nickname and email address listed in
>http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/
> reference/projects.yaml
>are correct. The release team, foundation staff, and TC all
>use those contact details to try to reach you at important
>points during the cycle.  Please make sure they are correct,
>and that the email address delivers messages to a mailbox you

Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-29 Thread Thierry Carrez
Rob C wrote:
> I'm struggling to find good info on when the adjusted PTL nomination
> cycle starts.
> 
> I've checked here:
> https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html#pike-ptls-self-nomination
> but it looks like the 'elections' section was supposed to be added to
> the table and wasn't.
> 
> I know from the updates to the charter that the elections should happen
> on or before R-3 but it doesn't provide any clarity on how much before
> then the nominations should be made?

Hi Rob,

I just proposed a change that covers this, assuming that we keep the
one-week nomination one-week election format:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/404275/

That said, the charter built some flexibility for election officials to
organize elections (in terms of nomination and election periods), so
they should probably confirm that they will run the Pike PTL elections
under that two-week model again.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-29 Thread Rob C
I'm struggling to find good info on when the adjusted PTL nomination cycle
starts.

I've checked here:
https://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html#pike-ptls-self-nomination
but it looks like the 'elections' section was supposed to be added to the
table and wasn't.

I know from the updates to the charter that the elections should happen on
or before R-3 but it doesn't provide any clarity on how much before then
the nominations should be made?

Cheers
Rob

On 1 Nov 2016 19:45, "Doug Hellmann"  wrote:

> PTLs,
>
> As we did for the Mitaka and Newton cycles, I want to start this
> cycle by making sure the expectations for communications with the
> release team are clear to everyone so there is no confusion or
> miscommunication about any of the process or deadlines. This
> email is being sent to the openstack-dev mailing list as well as
> the PTLs of all official OpenStack projects individually, to
> improve the odds that all of the PTLs see it.  I will not be
> taking the extra step of CCing individual PTLs or liaisons for
> future emails.
>
> (If you were a PTL last cycle, you may want to skip ahead to the
> Things for you to do right now section at the end.)
>
> Volunteers filling PTL and liaison positions are responsible for
> ensuring communication between project teams happens smoothly. As
> a community, we rely on three primary communication
> strategies/tools for different purposes:
>
> 1. Email, for announcements and for asynchronous communication.
>
>   We will be using the "[release]" topic tag on the openstack-dev
>   mailing list for important messages related to release
>   management.  Besides special announcements and instructions, I
>   will send the countdown emails I sent last cycle, with weekly
>   updates on focus, tasks, and upcoming dates. PTLs and release
>   liaisons should configure your mailing list subscription and
>   email client to ensure that those messages are visible (and
>   then read them) so that you are aware of all deadlines, process
>   changes, etc.
>
> 2. IRC, for time-sensitive interactions.
>
>   There are far too many of you (56) to make it realistic for the
>   three members of the release team to track you down
>   individually when there is a deadline. We need you to do your
>   part by making yourself available by configuring your IRC
>   bouncer to listen in #openstack-release. You are, of course,
>   welcome to stay in channel all the time, but you need to be
>   there at least during deadline periods (the week before and
>   week of each deadline).
>
> 3. Written documentation, for relatively stable information.
>
>   The release team has published the schedule for the Ocata cycle
>   to http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html. Although
>   I will highlight dates in the countdown emails, you may want to
>   add important dates from the schedule to your calendar.
>
>   Some projects have also added their own project-specific
>   deadlines to that list. If you have something unique, please
>   feel free to update it by patching the openstack/releases
>   repository. There is no need to add a project-specific deadline
>   that is the same as the global deadline.
>
> The Ocata cycle overlaps with several major holidays, including
> the new year. If you are planning time off, please make sure your
> duties are being covered by someone else on the team. Its best to
> let the release team know in advance so we dont delay approval
> for release requests from someone we dont recognize, waiting for
> your +1.
>
> Please ensure that the release liaison for your project has the
> time and ability to handle the communication necessary to manage
> your release.  The release team is here to facilitate, but
> finishing the work of preparing the release is ultimately the
> responsibility of the project team. Failing to follow through on
> a needed process step may block you from successfully meeting
> deadlines or releasing.  Our release milestones and deadlines are
> date-based, not feature-based.  When the date passes, so does the
> milestone. If you miss it, you miss it. A few of you ran into
> problems in past cycles because of missed communications. My goal
> is to have all teams meet all deadlines during Ocata. We came
> very very close for Newton; please help by keeping up to date on
> deadlines.
>
>
> Things for you to do right now:
>
> 1. Update your cross-project liaison on
>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#Release_management
>
> 2. Make sure your IRC nickname and email address listed in
>http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/
> reference/projects.yaml
>are correct. The release team, foundation staff, and TC all
>use those contact details to try to reach you at important
>points during the cycle.  Please make sure they are correct,
>and that the email address delivers messages to a mailbox you
>check regularly.
>
> 3. Update your mail filters to ensure you see messages sent to
>th

Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-08 Thread Steven Dake (stdake)
Doug,

As predecessor PTL for Kolla, I have followed your recommendations 1-4 
including this ack, although I am not sure its really necessary for me.  Note, 
I am not sure Michal (inc0 on irc) wants me to continue as release liaison or 
do the job himself, so that step has not yet been taken.  I will contact him in 
the next few days to make sure he either updates the release liaison to 
himself, asks for a volunteer, or expects me to continue to do that work.  If 
he expects me to continue with the work, I will do it at last for the Ocata 
cycle.

In any case, I won’t let the releases slip through the cracks as a result of a 
PTL transition.

Regards
-steve




On 11/1/16, 12:45 PM, "Doug Hellmann"  wrote:

>PTLs,
>
>As we did for the Mitaka and Newton cycles, I want to start this
>cycle by making sure the expectations for communications with the
>release team are clear to everyone so there is no confusion or
>miscommunication about any of the process or deadlines. This
>email is being sent to the openstack-dev mailing list as well as
>the PTLs of all official OpenStack projects individually, to
>improve the odds that all of the PTLs see it.  I will not be
>taking the extra step of CCing individual PTLs or liaisons for
>future emails.
>
>(If you were a PTL last cycle, you may want to skip ahead to the
>Things for you to do right now section at the end.)
>
>Volunteers filling PTL and liaison positions are responsible for
>ensuring communication between project teams happens smoothly. As
>a community, we rely on three primary communication
>strategies/tools for different purposes:
>
>1. Email, for announcements and for asynchronous communication.
>
>  We will be using the "[release]" topic tag on the openstack-dev
>  mailing list for important messages related to release
>  management.  Besides special announcements and instructions, I
>  will send the countdown emails I sent last cycle, with weekly
>  updates on focus, tasks, and upcoming dates. PTLs and release
>  liaisons should configure your mailing list subscription and
>  email client to ensure that those messages are visible (and
>  then read them) so that you are aware of all deadlines, process
>  changes, etc.
>
>2. IRC, for time-sensitive interactions.
>
>  There are far too many of you (56) to make it realistic for the
>  three members of the release team to track you down
>  individually when there is a deadline. We need you to do your
>  part by making yourself available by configuring your IRC
>  bouncer to listen in #openstack-release. You are, of course,
>  welcome to stay in channel all the time, but you need to be
>  there at least during deadline periods (the week before and
>  week of each deadline).
>
>3. Written documentation, for relatively stable information.
>
>  The release team has published the schedule for the Ocata cycle
>  to http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html. Although
>  I will highlight dates in the countdown emails, you may want to
>  add important dates from the schedule to your calendar.
>
>  Some projects have also added their own project-specific
>  deadlines to that list. If you have something unique, please
>  feel free to update it by patching the openstack/releases
>  repository. There is no need to add a project-specific deadline
>  that is the same as the global deadline.
>
>The Ocata cycle overlaps with several major holidays, including
>the new year. If you are planning time off, please make sure your
>duties are being covered by someone else on the team. Its best to
>let the release team know in advance so we dont delay approval
>for release requests from someone we dont recognize, waiting for
>your +1.
>
>Please ensure that the release liaison for your project has the
>time and ability to handle the communication necessary to manage
>your release.  The release team is here to facilitate, but
>finishing the work of preparing the release is ultimately the
>responsibility of the project team. Failing to follow through on
>a needed process step may block you from successfully meeting
>deadlines or releasing.  Our release milestones and deadlines are
>date-based, not feature-based.  When the date passes, so does the
>milestone. If you miss it, you miss it. A few of you ran into
>problems in past cycles because of missed communications. My goal
>is to have all teams meet all deadlines during Ocata. We came
>very very close for Newton; please help by keeping up to date on
>deadlines.
>
>
>Things for you to do right now:
>
>1. Update your cross-project liaison on
>   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#Release_management
>
>2. Make sure your IRC nickname and email address listed in
>   
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml
>   are correct. The release team, foundation staff, and TC all
>   use those contact details to try to reach you at important
>   points during the cycle.  Please make sure they are correct,
>   and that the email addre

Re: [openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-01 Thread Matt Riedemann

On 11/1/2016 2:45 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:

4. Reply to this message, off-list, so I know that you have received it.
   A simple “ack” is enough.


Got it. :)

--

Thanks,

Matt Riedemann


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[openstack-dev] [ptl][release] ocata release management communication

2016-11-01 Thread Doug Hellmann
PTLs,

As we did for the Mitaka and Newton cycles, I want to start this
cycle by making sure the expectations for communications with the
release team are clear to everyone so there is no confusion or
miscommunication about any of the process or deadlines. This
email is being sent to the openstack-dev mailing list as well as
the PTLs of all official OpenStack projects individually, to
improve the odds that all of the PTLs see it.  I will not be
taking the extra step of CCing individual PTLs or liaisons for
future emails.

(If you were a PTL last cycle, you may want to skip ahead to the
Things for you to do right now section at the end.)

Volunteers filling PTL and liaison positions are responsible for
ensuring communication between project teams happens smoothly. As
a community, we rely on three primary communication
strategies/tools for different purposes:

1. Email, for announcements and for asynchronous communication.

  We will be using the "[release]" topic tag on the openstack-dev
  mailing list for important messages related to release
  management.  Besides special announcements and instructions, I
  will send the countdown emails I sent last cycle, with weekly
  updates on focus, tasks, and upcoming dates. PTLs and release
  liaisons should configure your mailing list subscription and
  email client to ensure that those messages are visible (and
  then read them) so that you are aware of all deadlines, process
  changes, etc.

2. IRC, for time-sensitive interactions.

  There are far too many of you (56) to make it realistic for the
  three members of the release team to track you down
  individually when there is a deadline. We need you to do your
  part by making yourself available by configuring your IRC
  bouncer to listen in #openstack-release. You are, of course,
  welcome to stay in channel all the time, but you need to be
  there at least during deadline periods (the week before and
  week of each deadline).

3. Written documentation, for relatively stable information.

  The release team has published the schedule for the Ocata cycle
  to http://releases.openstack.org/ocata/schedule.html. Although
  I will highlight dates in the countdown emails, you may want to
  add important dates from the schedule to your calendar.

  Some projects have also added their own project-specific
  deadlines to that list. If you have something unique, please
  feel free to update it by patching the openstack/releases
  repository. There is no need to add a project-specific deadline
  that is the same as the global deadline.

The Ocata cycle overlaps with several major holidays, including
the new year. If you are planning time off, please make sure your
duties are being covered by someone else on the team. Its best to
let the release team know in advance so we dont delay approval
for release requests from someone we dont recognize, waiting for
your +1.

Please ensure that the release liaison for your project has the
time and ability to handle the communication necessary to manage
your release.  The release team is here to facilitate, but
finishing the work of preparing the release is ultimately the
responsibility of the project team. Failing to follow through on
a needed process step may block you from successfully meeting
deadlines or releasing.  Our release milestones and deadlines are
date-based, not feature-based.  When the date passes, so does the
milestone. If you miss it, you miss it. A few of you ran into
problems in past cycles because of missed communications. My goal
is to have all teams meet all deadlines during Ocata. We came
very very close for Newton; please help by keeping up to date on
deadlines.


Things for you to do right now:

1. Update your cross-project liaison on
   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CrossProjectLiaisons#Release_management

2. Make sure your IRC nickname and email address listed in
   
http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml
   are correct. The release team, foundation staff, and TC all
   use those contact details to try to reach you at important
   points during the cycle.  Please make sure they are correct,
   and that the email address delivers messages to a mailbox you
   check regularly.

3. Update your mail filters to ensure you see messages sent to
   the openstack-dev list with [release] in the subject line.

4. Reply to this message, off-list, so I know that you have received it.
   A simple “ack” is enough.

Doug

PS - If you need help setting up an IRC bouncer, take a look at
https://doughellmann.com/blog/2015/03/12/deploying-nested-znc-services-with-ansible/
or https://dague.net/2014/09/13/my-irc-proxy-setup/ for a puppet
version.


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