Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2015-04-29 18:45:54 +0100: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > Taking as given that we should be open and communicate more, I would > > like to ask a concrete question. It seems like there is a general > > sense of concern about communication, b

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 12:59 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: > Again my apologies for the incorrect format - since I am still not > receiving the messages from this thread. let me know if you want me to investigate this further. > Doug - evidently this is not working as it should. As Chris said

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 04/29/15 21:59, Stefano Maffulli wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 18:28 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: How about the fact that the definition of an ATC was changed [1] for a free Summit pass? [2] This was not a decision of the TC, it was a decision of the Foundation staff. The definition o

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 18:28 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: > How about the fact that the definition of an ATC was changed [1] for a > free Summit pass? [2] This was not a decision of the TC, it was a decision of the Foundation staff. The definition of ATC has *not* changed, that's embedded in

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Chris Dent
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: Taking as given that we should be open and communicate more, I would like to ask a concrete question. It seems like there is a general sense of concern about communication, but I want to make sure it's not related to ongoing discussions. Is there somet

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-04-29 11:48:36 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-04-29 18:28:45 +0300: [...] > > How about the fact that the definition of an ATC was changed [1] for a > > free Summit pass? [2] > > I could be wrong, but I don't think that was a TC

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-04-29 12:59:35 +0300 (+0300), Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: [...] > Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2015-04-28 16:21:17 +: > >/ On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: > />/ [...] > />/ > What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of >

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-04-29 18:28:45 +0300: > On 04/29/15 17:28, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Taking as given that we should be open and communicate more, I would > > like to ask a concrete question. It seems like there is a general > > sense of concern about communicati

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
On 04/29/15 17:28, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-04-29 12:59:35 +0300: Again my apologies for the incorrect format - since I am still not receiving the messages from this thread. Please see my comments with the abstracts within (unfortunately not nece

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-04-29 12:59:35 +0300: > Again my apologies for the incorrect format - since I am still not > receiving the messages from this thread. > > Please see my comments with the abstracts within (unfortunately not > necessarily in the correct order) >

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Anita Kuno
Thank you for your honest and forthright reply, Chris. I shall respond inline. On 04/28/2015 02:11 PM, Chris Dent wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Anita Kuno wrote: > >> At present, I am beginning to wonder to what degree you are being honest >> with us? Is you intention to know the candidates or to

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Robert Collins
On 29 April 2015 at 20:48, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Stefano Maffulli wrote: >> I've long come to the conclusion that it is what it is: at the size >> we're at, we can't expect every voter to be fully informed about all the >> issues. >> >> Better titles and a sort of TL;DR first paragraph in blog p

[openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
Again my apologies for the incorrect format - since I am still not receiving the messages from this thread. Please see my comments with the abstracts within (unfortunately not necessarily in the correct order) I think that the point here was that Doug mentioned that there was communication

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Thierry Carrez
Stefano Maffulli wrote: > I've long come to the conclusion that it is what it is: at the size > we're at, we can't expect every voter to be fully informed about all the > issues. > > Better titles and a sort of TL;DR first paragraph in blog posts are very > helpful. But in order to write those, th

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2015-04-28 11:30:01 -0700: > Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: > > [...] > >> What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of > >> "conclusions". They also need to be invitations to parti

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Joshua Harlow
Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: [...] What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of "conclusions". They also need to be invitations to participate in the discussions. Yes, the mailing list, gerrit and meeting logs have some o

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Ryan Brown
On 04/28/2015 12:42 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2015-04-28 16:21:17 +: >> On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: >> [...] >>> What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of >>> "conclusions". They also need to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Chris Dent
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Anita Kuno wrote: At present, I am beginning to wonder to what degree you are being honest with us? Is you intention to know the candidates or to communicate your dissatisfaction with the current blog post situation? You'll note that I didn't have anything to say about the

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 16:30 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: > What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of > "conclusions". They also need to be invitations to participate in the > discussions. Yes, the mailing list, gerrit and meeting logs have some > of the ongoing discussions

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 17:00 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: > I would have to go back and check, but I'm pretty sure the posts were > highlighted in Stef's community newsletter email. They were, in fact. But I know as a fact that even if people many love the newsletter, I have the impression that few

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Anita Kuno
On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Dent wrote: > > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... > > This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > questions and though the self-nomination messages have included some > very interesting stuff I think it would be usef

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2015-04-28 16:21:17 +: > On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: > [...] > > What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of > > "conclusions". They also need to be invitations to participate in the > > discussions

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-04-28 16:30:21 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: [...] > What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of > "conclusions". They also need to be invitations to participate in the > discussions. Yes, the mailing list, gerrit and meeting logs have some > of the ongoing dis

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Chris Dent
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: Thanks very much for the information about this stuff thus far. To take the discussion to its logical extreme, for the sake of the discussion and not (just) to be snarky, I want to respond to something from this last paragraph We do not always resolve a

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2015-04-27 23:20:39 +0100: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > I believe all of the posts were on the main OpenStack foundation blog > > under the "technical committee" tag [1], and they also went to > > planet.openstack.org for folks who subscri

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Armando M.
On 23 April 2015 at 09:14, Chris Dent wrote: > > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... > > This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > questions and though the self-nomination messages have included some > very interesting stuff I think it would be u

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Dent
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: I believe all of the posts were on the main OpenStack foundation blog under the "technical committee" tag [1], and they also went to planet.openstack.org for folks who subscribe to the entire community feed. Ah. Some things about that: * in the right

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Richard Raseley's message of 2015-04-27 12:55:11 -0700: > Doug Hellmann wrote: > > I think we chose blog posts for their relative permanence, and > > retweetability. Maybe we should post to the mailing list instead, > > if the contributor community follows the list more regularly than

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Raseley
Doug Hellmann wrote: I think we chose blog posts for their relative permanence, and retweetability. Maybe we should post to the mailing list instead, if the contributor community follows the list more regularly than blogs? I like blog posts for the reasons you mentioned. Perhaps sending a mess

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2015-04-27 17:32:12 +0100: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > For outgoing communication, during Kilo (and possibly Juno) we tried > > blogging meeting summaries. Did folks notice? Were the posts useful? > > Is there a TC specific blog place of

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Dent
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Doug Hellmann wrote: For outgoing communication, during Kilo (and possibly Juno) we tried blogging meeting summaries. Did folks notice? Were the posts useful? Is there a TC specific blog place of interest? I sometimes stumble on blog postings from people I know are TC peop

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 27, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > = Have a monthly "Feedback from Operators" conversation = > > Dedicate part or all of one TC IRC meeting time per month to discuss operator > feedback. Invite the operator community to come and tell us what has > improved, what needs improving, a

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Jay Pipes
Chris, apologies for the late reply. No real excuse other than I wanted to hear what the other candidates had to say and listen a bit before I responded. On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Dent wrote: Here's the question: What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure qual

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 27/04/15 08:46 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2015-04-27 08:52:01 +0200: On 23/04/15 17:14 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: > >This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... > >This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged >ques

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-27 Thread Doug Hellmann
Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2015-04-27 08:52:01 +0200: > On 23/04/15 17:14 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: > > > >This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... > > > >This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > >questions and though the self-nomination

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-26 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 23/04/15 17:14 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged questions and though the self-nomination messages have included some very interesting stuff I think it would be useful to get

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Monty Taylor
On 04/24/2015 06:28 PM, David Medberry wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > >> >> What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure >> quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of >> OpenStack as a full system, both as a project be

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread David Medberry
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure > quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of > OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a > product being used? Hello Chri

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Maru Newby
> On Apr 23, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure > quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of > OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a > product being used? > I have st

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Zane Bitter
On 24/04/15 09:52, Ed Leafe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/24/2015 08:30 AM, Zane Bitter wrote: I'm not sure what you see as the difference between the "end users" and the "operators" of OpenStack, because in my mind they are one and the same. I don't consider the

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread David Kranz
On 04/24/2015 10:42 AM, Chris Dent wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Ed Leafe wrote: I read "the downstream" to mean what you refer to as "people who deploy workloads on them". In this context, I saw the operators as the end-users of the work the devs do. If that gave the impression that I don't care

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread David Lyle
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure > quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of > OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a > product being used? Thank yo

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Chris Dent
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Ed Leafe wrote: I read "the downstream" to mean what you refer to as "people who deploy workloads on them". In this context, I saw the operators as the end-users of the work the devs do. If that gave the impression that I don't care about people who actually run their stuff

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Dean Troyer
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure > quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of > OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a > product being used? One thing

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Ed Leafe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/24/2015 08:30 AM, Zane Bitter wrote: >> I'm not sure what you see as the difference between the "end >> users" and the "operators" of OpenStack, because in my mind they >> are one and the same. I don't consider the people using, say, >> pub

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Zane Bitter
On 24/04/15 09:00, Ed Leafe wrote: I'm not sure what you see as the difference between the "end users" and the "operators" of OpenStack, because in my mind they are one and the same. I don't consider the people using, say, public cloud services to be OpenStack end users, because ultimately they

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
Hello Chris, and thank you for posting this question. First I must apologize since I was not able to answer this thread earlier - due to a problem with me receiving the emails from the list. I had to ask the election committee how to add my answer to the thread, I hope this attempt works forgi

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try… Presumptuous? Nah, any candidate should be willing to answer questions. > This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > questions and though the self-nomination mes

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-24 Thread Thierry Carrez
Chris Dent wrote: > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure > quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of > OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a > product being used? At a strategic level, as I mention in my candida

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Robert Collins
On 24 April 2015 at 04:14, Chris Dent wrote: > > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... Nothing presumptuous about it at all :) > There are many different ways to define "quality". For the sake of > this question feel free to use whatever definition you like but take > it

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Angus Salkeld
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... > > This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > questions and though the self-nomination messages have included some > very interesting stuff I think it woul

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Zane Bitter
On 23/04/15 12:14, Chris Dent wrote: This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... Not at all, we should *strongly* encourage people to ask questions of the candidates. In fact, I think we should encourage everyone to contribute to the discussion, not just the candidates.

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Krotscheck
Hey there Chris! On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM Chris Dent wrote: > What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to > ensure quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators > of OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and > a product being use

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Anita Kuno
On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Dent wrote: > > This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... Thank you for asking the question, Chris, my response is below. Anita. > > This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged > questions and though the self-nomination messa

[openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-23 Thread Chris Dent
This might be a bit presumptuous, but why not give it a try... This cycle's TC elections didn't come with a set of prepackaged questions and though the self-nomination messages have included some very interesting stuff I think it would be useful to get answers from the candidates on at least one