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[Joshua McKenty <josh@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Joshua McKenty
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
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On 2011-05-31, at 10:15 AM, John Purrier wrote:

> +1.
> 
> This will not slow the development of the projects and allows logical
> management of the projects to be promoted to "core". In order to make this
> happen we will need to lead the DS timelines, as ttx points out, to allow
> PTL elections and to involve the new project PTL's in the upcoming DS
> planning.
> 
> This timeline should be published as part of the overall project lifecycle
> we are developing (inception/affiliated -> incubation -> core project).
> Always recognizing that some projects will stop/hold at specific steps in
> the process (not all project should/can progress to incubated or core).
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Thierry Carrez
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:35 AM
> To: openstack-poc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Openstack-poc] PPB Meeting on June 2nd
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I won't be able to make the PPB meeting this Thursday. This is a bank
> holiday over here and we are having people for dinner. If you have the
> meeting without me, just a few remarks about Core projects promotion vs.
> release management.
> 
> I think projects shouldn't be promoted to "Core projects" status in the
> middle of a development cycle. The reason is that I need to follow Core
> projects from a release management perspective (plans, milestone
> contents, etc.) and you can't just start doing it in the middle of a
> cycle and pray for a successful coordinated release at the end. They
> need to be Core projects for the whole cycle, so decided before the
> design summit time.
> 
> So we can definitely promote projects to Incubation status, at which
> point I'd start educating them on release management requirements to
> make sure they can move to Core status for the next release. And we
> should decide, at least one month before the design summit, that a given
> Incubating project will be a Core project for the E development cycle.
> The corresponding PTLs can then join in time the design summit
> organization committee and the PPB.
> 
> But IMHO we shouldn't promote Dashboard, or Burrow, or ScalR to Core
> status for Diablo, since Diablo is already well started.
> 
> At that point I'd concentrate our efforts in defining "Incubation" and
> making sure the right projects enter that state ASAP.
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
> 
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