Joe,

On the first point, I'm not sure why you are saying you need to be
committer to submit a patch in OPNFV.  There are plenty of regular
contributors who submit code/patches to OPNFV.  Let me know if I'm not
understanding your point.

On your second point, I can recall a few committers who voluntarily stepped
down in the past few of months.  One of them was your Board member Wenjing
who stepped down as a committer for QTIP.  One of the reasons why TSC
approval is desired for revoking committer status is to prevent PTLs from
potentially acting in bad faith.  I don't know if there are any PTLs in
OPNFV who would act in bad faith, but it's good to have checks & balances.
Is it really that difficult to send an email to the TSC mailing list and
then come to the TSC meeting for 5 minutes to get an approval?

Others in the community are welcome to weigh in on this...

Thanks,

Ray

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:10 PM, joehuang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, Raymond,
>
> My suggestion is to update the TSC Charter. Compared to OpenStack core
> reviewer/contributor maintenance, often feel that OPNFV governance brings
> lots of inconvenience:
>
> For example, if one wants to submit a patch, he/she usually has to be a
> committer in OPNFV before he submit a patch. But in OpenStack, anyone is
> able to submit a patch, and core reviewers will make sure this patch should
> be approved or not. If one is nominated as committer to be a core reviewer,
> and pass the voting, then any other core reviewer can add the new one to
> core reviewer list, but in OPNFV, you have to submit a patch or ask help
> from help-desk.
>
> And another example, I seldom find that there is a stepping down
> notification in OPNFV mail-list from committer(yes, I saw some PTL stepping
> down notification), it seems not the fashion in OPNFV. But in OpenStack, a
> core reviewer is quite important role in code review, if he is not able to
> do the core reviewer responsibility, he will send a notification to the
> OpenStack mail-list.
>
> I really don't know the reason why when we find some committer is inactive
> in the past 6 months, we need the approve from TSC?
>
> Best Regards
> Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Raymond Paik [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 14 December 2016 12:43
> *To:* joehuang
> *Cc:* opnfv-tech-discuss
> *Subject:* Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] committer list maintainance
>
> Joe,
>
> If there's an inactive committer (for more than 6 months) and the PTL is
> not able to reach that committer for whatever reason, the PTL needs to make
> a request to the TSC to revoke the committer status.  The PTL should not do
> this unilaterally.
>
> Please see the 8th paragraph in the Section 8 of the TSC Charter (
> https://www.opnfv.org/developers/technical-project-
> governance/tsc-charter)...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:18 PM, joehuang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In each project's wiki page, we often list committers and contributors,
>> as OPNFV's ongoing development, some new committers come, some committers
>> grow other interesting and put less focus on the old project.
>>
>> I have one suggestion for the maintenance on committer list: for those
>> who have shifted interest, for example, not shown in the weekly meeting and
>> mail-list discussion ( all these could be found in the log) in the past 6
>> months, but they forget to send a stepping down notification in the
>> mail-list, PTL should be able to move the committer to the contributor list
>> by default, and update the list in the git repository too.
>>
>> It's not good idea ( not polite too :-) ) to send mail to ask "hey, would
>> you continue to contribute in the project, if not, I'll remove you from the
>> committer list".
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)
>>
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