[Pulp-dev] Improving technical decision making

[Austin Macdonald]

Interesting proposals Milan!

I am forking Brian's email so that thread can focus on communication,
redmine, etc.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Milan Kovacik <mkovacik at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'd also like to propose formal Project Technical Lead and a formal
> Project Community Lead roles to be able to decide in case of competing
> (technical) ideas or planning priorities.
> These would have to be time-boxed (half a year) and folks would elect
> the leader for a period based on leader's program, such as focus on
> particular goals for instance testing or refactoring.
> Any single person would be able to perform either the Community or the
> Technical Lead role in any given period but not both at the same time.
> The Community Lead role would take care for organizing the Technical
> Lead elections and vice versa, the Technical Lead would take care
> about organizing the Community Lead elections.
> The electorate would be the active contributors for both the roles.
> The candidates would be the active contributors too.
>
> This would open up the decision making process for anyone from the
> community, would encourage transparency, accountability and
> responsibility and would allow us to come to a decision on competing
> (technical) ideas or planning issues in case we'd got stuck.
>
> Cheers,
> milan
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > I agree the decision process for core itself needs discussion. For now,
> I'm
> > only able to offer facilitating a convo that focuses on the communication
> > aspects not the decision process. I would like to improve the
> transparency
> > into the features that will and won't be in any given release for our
> > stakeholders. I hope we do discuss decision process as its own
> discussion;
> > it's certainly deserving of a pup of its own.
> >
> > For the communication issues, soon I will share a basic outline of one
> way
> > we could use Redmine for release planning. This would be a starter idea
> > towards a solution for us to modify together.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Austin Macdonald <austin at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree with the problems that Brian listed, but I hope we can focus on
> >> the decision making process itself in addition to how those decisions
> are
> >> communicated.
> >
> >
> >
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