OpenStack maint team

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 17:08 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Everyone on the To: list has commit permissions on some of the OpenStack
> packages. It's quite a big list! :-)
> 
> As more people get involved with packaging OpenStack in Fedora/EPEL, I
> think we need to figure out how to co-ordinate ourselves better. I had
> hoped we could use the cloud SIG mailing list for this but, in practice,
> I think folks are reluctant to spam everyone on the list with the nitty
> gritty details of what they're working on.
> 
> I'm always reluctant to start another mailing list, but I think it might
> be warranted here. What say you to openstack at lists.fp.org or even
> openstack-maint at lists.fp.org? Maybe #fedora-openstack on Freenode too?

Ok, consensus seems to be to stick with the cloud SIG mailing list.

Perhaps everyone can make a concious effort to keep the list more up to
date with what they're working on?

> On a related note, I've been quick to approve requests for commit
> permissions on these packages in order to encourage folks to get
> involved. However, quite a few folks have ever used these permissions so
> I'm starting to think we should get require folks to have an actual
> contribution ready to commit before approving these requests.

I think David's point about established packagers makes sense.

So, we'll say that it's fine to liberally grant commit to established
packagers, but we (I) should be a bit more cautious and only grant it to
new packagers when they have a contribution they want to push.

Cheers,
Mark.