On 23/11/2015 21:59, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from David Chadwick's message of 2015-11-23 13:20:56 -0800: >> Since the ultimate arbiter is the PTL, then it would be wrong to allow >> members of the same organisation as the PTL to perform all three code >> functions without the input of anyone from any other organisation. This >> places too much power in the hands of one organisation to the detriment >> of the overall community. >> > > This is just a vote for distrusting the community. If you think there's > "power" in being able to merge things, and that organizations will abuse > this power, then you vote for distrust.
No, rather for the abuse of power by organisations, which is rather different :-) We have multiple examples of these all the time. > > However, I don't think PTLs have power to censure anybody nor do they > have absolute arbitration powers. They break ties. Whatever discretion > they have can almost certainly be overridden by the TC according to this: > > "... if a given debate cannot be clearly resolved, the PTL can decide > the outcome. Although the TC is generally not involved in team-internal > decisions, it still has oversight over team decisions, especially when > they affect other teams or go contrary to general OpenStack goals." > > http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html#project-team-leads > > So I think if a PTL were to act improperly in a way that the project > team disagreed with, it would be well within the right and charter of > the TC to intervene as part of oversight. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev