Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2016-05-06 09:53:11 +1000: > On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:35:46PM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > This has been a lively thread, and the summit session was similarly > > animated. I'm glad to see so much interest in managing our dependencies! > > > > As we discussed at the summit, my primary objective with dependency > > management this cycle is actually to spin it out into its own team, like > > we did with stable management over the last year. We discussed several > > things that team might undertake, including reviewing all of our > > existing dependencies to ensure they are all still actually needed; > > reviewing any overlap between dependencies to try to remove items from > > the list; and implementing some of the other changes we discussed such > > as allowing overlapping ranges between the global and per-project lists. > > I think some of these pro-active things will be key. A quick check shows we > have nearly 30 items in g-r that don't seem to be used by anything. So there > is some low hanging fruit there. Search for overlapping requirements and then > working with the impacted teams is a big job but again a very worthwhile goal.
Someone had a tool that looked at second-order dependencies, I think. I can't find the reference in my notes, but maybe someone else has it handy? > > > We had no volunteers to serve as PTL of that new team, > > I was only have joking when I said I can learn how to be a PTL in 2 things at > the same time :) Yeah, I wasn't going to do that to you based on an off-hand comment. If you want it when we decide we're ready for the team to form, that's entirely up to you and the electorate. :-) > > Regardless lets try to grow a team from the volunteers then we can decide what > the spin off looks like. +1 Doug __________________________________________________________________________ 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
