Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-16 Thread Emilien Macchi
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Amrith Kumar wrote: > Full disclosure, I'm running for election as well. I intend to also > provide an answer to the question I pose here, one that I've posed > before on #openstack-tc in an office hours session. > > Question 1: > > "There

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-16 Thread Lance Bragstad
On 10/16/2017 09:09 AM, Amrith Kumar wrote: > In a recent conversation on #openstack-tc where we bemoaned the ills > of Stackalytics and related management-by-objectives to Heisenberg's > uncertainty principle, the conversation (on 10-03, for example) veered > towards why people were interested

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-16 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Amrith Kumar's message of 2017-10-15 08:15:51 -0400: > Full disclosure, I'm running for election as well. I intend to also > provide an answer to the question I pose here, one that I've posed > before on #openstack-tc in an office hours session. > > Question 1: > > "There are M

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-16 Thread Amrith Kumar
In a recent conversation on #openstack-tc where we bemoaned the ills of Stackalytics and related management-by-objectives to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the conversation (on 10-03, for example) veered towards why people were interested in running for election to the Technical Committee.

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-15 Thread Paul Belanger
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 08:15:51AM -0400, Amrith Kumar wrote: > Full disclosure, I'm running for election as well. I intend to also > provide an answer to the question I pose here, one that I've posed > before on #openstack-tc in an office hours session. > > Question 1: > > "There are M open

[openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for all candidates in TC election: What will you do if you don't win?

2017-10-15 Thread Amrith Kumar
Full disclosure, I'm running for election as well. I intend to also provide an answer to the question I pose here, one that I've posed before on #openstack-tc in an office hours session. Question 1: "There are M open slots for the TC and there are N (>>M) candidates for those open slots. This is

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Ed Leafe's message of 2017-10-12 13:38:03 -0500: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish > the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would > you have wanted the TC to do about it? > > -- Ed Leafe > The main issue

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Paul Belanger's message of 2017-10-12 23:13:11 -0400: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Clay Gerrard wrote: > > I like a representative democracy. It mostly means I get a say in which > > other people I have to trust to think deeply about issues which effect me > > and

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Amrith Kumar
Clay, Great question and one that made me think quite a bit. I believe that while the commits in the Governance repo represent the visible actions of the TC, the real leadership ability of the TC is often in the actions that it inspires in people in the community. The TC is a body that has to

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Andrea Frittoli
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:38 PM Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I > wish the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what > would you have wanted the TC to do about it? > I really appreciate the work

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Andrea Frittoli
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:43 PM Clay Gerrard wrote: > I like a representative democracy. It mostly means I get a say in which > other people I have to trust to think deeply about issues which effect me > and make decisions which I agree (more or less) are of benefit to

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Julia Kreger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote: [trim] > To candidates: > > Would you please self select a change (or changes) from > https://github.com/openstack/governance/ in the past ~12 mo or so where they > thought the outcome or the discussion/process was

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Ildiko Vancsa
By being involved in training activities and on-boarding new contributors to our community I would like to join to Emilien on his point. I think we have a great, open and welcoming community already, but we still have many areas to improve. Teaching the new community members the processes and

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Julia Kreger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish > the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would > you have wanted the TC to do about it? There have been some great

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread ChangBo Guo
One thing I wish the TC could do more in the past years is that make users and developers in the same page: share requirements, pain points and development progress, glad we have some ways to shorten the feedback loop like building SIG(Special Interest Group) to involve more users. 2017-10-13

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Graham Hayes
There is one topic I have been pretty vocal about wanting the TC to deal with - encouraging cross project teams (Docs / QA etc) to start migrating to providing tooling, rather than direct services to projects. I am aware I am (re)opening a can of worms, but I think as a community we have started

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread ChangBo Guo
Several changes seems very well in the past months, for me the "top 5 help wanted list" [1] is really helpful. It's introduced in [2] and with some follow ups. This document lists areas where the OpenStack Technical Committee seeks contributions to significantly help OpenStack as a whole. In

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Graham Hayes
For me "Write down OpenStack principles" [1] signaled the start of an more open TC. It was writing down principles that I had been told about verbally when I started working on OpenStack, and had been part of a "shared understanding" for some people who had been in the community for a while. This

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-13 Thread Ildiko Vancsa
Hi All, I agree with the items pointed out in the previous mails in the thread. In my view the discussion on the vision was crucial in order to synchronize on what we think OpenStack is and to understand what direction we would like it to move and how we keep it an innovative environment that

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Swapnil Kulkarni (coolsvap)
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:12 AM, Clay Gerrard wrote: > I like a representative democracy. It mostly means I get a say in which > other people I have to trust to think deeply about issues which effect me > and make decisions which I agree (more or less) are of benefit to

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Paul Belanger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Clay Gerrard wrote: > I like a representative democracy. It mostly means I get a say in which > other people I have to trust to think deeply about issues which effect me > and make decisions which I agree (more or less) are of benefit to the > social

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Paul Belanger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:38:03PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish > the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would > you have wanted the TC to do about it? > > -- Ed Leafe > No, I've been happy

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Mohammed Naser
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Oct 12, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote: > >> I think that the OpenStack infrastructure team is doing a wonderful >> job at keeping such a huge CI system working to the best of their >> effort,

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 12, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote: > I think that the OpenStack infrastructure team is doing a wonderful > job at keeping such a huge CI system working to the best of their > effort, however, I think that there needs to be a stronger > relationship between

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Fei Long Wang
One thing I wish the TC could do in the past years or so is using their "power" to help to push a more integrated/collaborative OpenStack. Though some(all) TC members may think they don't have the power. On 13/10/17 07:38, Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Mohammed Naser
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish > the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would > you have wanted the TC to do about it? This is great and the timing of

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Mohammed Naser
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Emilien Macchi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote: > [...] > >> To candidates: >> >> Would you please self select a change (or changes) from >> https://github.com/openstack/governance/ in the

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Clay Gerrard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote: > I ment to include reference back to (what I believe) was the original work: > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/453262/ __ OpenStack Development

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Clay Gerrard
I ment to include reference back to (what I believe) was the original work: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Emilien Macchi > wrote: > >> >> The vision exercise was, in my opinion, one of

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Clay Gerrard
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Emilien Macchi wrote: > > The vision exercise was, in my opinion, one of the more exciting > things we have done in 2017. > Yeah for sure, that was a big goings-on. It's not an easy thing to do because of our diverses opinions, but >

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Emilien Macchi
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote: [...] > To candidates: > > Would you please self select a change (or changes) from > https://github.com/openstack/governance/ in the past ~12 mo or so where they > thought the outcome or the discussion/process was

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Emilien Macchi
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish > the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would > you have wanted the TC to do about it? I've been part of the TC during

[openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Clay Gerrard
I like a representative democracy. It mostly means I get a say in which other people I have to trust to think deeply about issues which effect me and make decisions which I agree (more or less) are of benefit to the social groups in which I participate. When I vote IRL I like to consider voting

[openstack-dev] [tc][election] Question for the candidates

2017-10-12 Thread Ed Leafe
In the past year or so, has there been anything that made you think “I wish the TC would do something about that!” ? If so, what was it, and what would you have wanted the TC to do about it? -- Ed Leafe __ OpenStack