On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > On 06/23/2017 05:44 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Lance Bragstad wrote: >>> Is the role of a goal "champion" limited to a single person? Can it be >>> distributed across multiple people pending actions are well communicated? >> >> I'm a bit torn on that. On one hand work can definitely (and probably >> should) be covered by multiple people. But I like the idea that it's >> someone's responsibility to ensure that progress is made (even if that >> person ends up delegating all the work). The trick is, it's easy for >> everyone to assume that the work is covered since someone has signed up >> for it. >> >> It's like the PTL situation -- work is done by the group and it's great >> to have a clear go-to person to keep track of things, until the PTL has >> to do everything because they end up as the default assignee for everything. > > I agree, there should be a single name here. They can delegate and > collect up a group, but at the end of the day one person should be > responsible for it. > Aye, this sounds much like a committee chair. Ideally, even if in name only, it provides a single point of communication for folks regardless of whether they are directly working on the goal or not.
Two points: It may require some additional monitoring from the respective PTL and, we should have have a plan in place for shifting responsibilities if a given champion can no longer take on the role (illness, injury, work changes, etc...). - Harry > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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
