On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote:
> John Griffith wrote: > > I think Sean Dague made some really good points and I'd tend to lean > > that way. Honestly charters, bylaws, governance etc shift or are > > rewritten fairly often. Why not just change when we do elections to > > correspond with releases and keep the continuity that we have now. Is > > there a problem with the existing terms and cycles that maybe I'm > missing? > > AFAICT this is not what Sean is proposing. He is saying that we should > run elections in the weeks before Summit as usual, but the newly-elected > PTL would /not/ take over the current PTL until 3 months later when the > next development branches are opened. > Yes, which is a reasonable choice in my mind as well. I was throwing out there however that maybe this isn't that hard, maybe we could just move the election date as well. > > While it's true that there are projects with a lot of continuity and > succession planning, with the old PTL staying around after they have > been replaced, there are also a fair share of projects where the PTL is > replaced by election and either rage-quits or lowers their involvement > significantly as a result. I'd rather have the /possibility/ to separate > the PTL from the release steward role and ensure continuity. > That doesn't prevent you from doing it Nova-style and use the PTL as the > release steward. It just lets you use someone else if you want to. A bit > like keeping a headphone jack. Options. > I see what you did there (and I like it). > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 >
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