Re: Joining Infra team

From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Kiril Nesenko" <kiril(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: infra(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:34:25 PM Subject: Re: Joining Infra team On 05/07/2013 04:36 AM, Kiril Nesenko wrote: > We need to update this page - > http://www.ovirt.org/Infrastructure_team_administrators > 1. rmiddle - is not active anymore We don't have any current policy about inactivating members. Did Robert send out email saying he was no longer active, remove him as a maintainer, etc.? This page doesn't mention anything about inactivity: http://www.ovirt.org/Becoming_a_maintainer

It may simply be up to us to decide if we want a policy around inactivity. It seems to make sense that Infrastructure would be more strict around this - unlike code contribution under git, root access to servers can be destructive if an inactive Infra member has their key compromised, etc.

> 2. oschreib - is not maintaining infra He was at one point, probably when we formed the Infra group. As above, we don't have any policy for this. If we're worried about proliferation of sshkeys with sudo access and less active Infra members, perhaps we can control specifically who has access to what rather than "everyone, everything." If someone goes inactive we can remove their sshkey access, but leave the rest (user ~/, voting privileges, etc.)

I recall asking Carl Trieloff about this when he and JimJag were drafting the initial governance for oVirt. I was worried that a Board and maintainers that grew without much attrition would be unwieldy. They reassured me it worked out fine - there is no reason to retire people, if they are not active then they just stop debating and voting, but they can always come back as per the merit that got them maintainership in the first place. I haven't seen so far a reason to doubt their reasoning.

> 3. Need to add obasan as apprentice. So far it appears that new apprentices are added by suggesting of an existing maintainer. Perhaps we want to make that a more formal sponsorship arrangement? Each new apprentice needs a sponsor to help get them started, etc.

Cheers - Karsten > Ohad, please post your ssh pub key. > > - Kiril > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: infra(a)ovirt.org >> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:07:43 AM >> Subject: Re: Joining Infra team >> >> On 05/06/2013 01:26 PM, Dave Neary wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I updated the "Joining the infra team" wiki page earlier todday with my >>> ubnderstanding of what was discussed and agreed several months ago. >>> Please have a look and review it (and edit it in place), as it's >>> entirely possible I've forgotten important things there. >>> http://www.ovirt.org/Becoming_an_Infrastructure_team_member >> >> Great, thanks. I just threw in some changes and additions, let me know >> what you think. Mainly I wanted to give more stuff to do as an apprentice. >> >> One thing that isn't addressed is the final step, which I briefly >> touched upon in my update. How do we want to handle proposing that >> apprentices move to maintainership? Just when it occurs to us? On a >> quarterly basis? When someone asks for the switch and it's obviously >> time to do it? >> >> In that vein, how do I propose that Alexander Rydekull and Dave Neary be >> pulled from apprentice to maintainer? Presuming they also feel ready, etc. >> >> Moran, are you still active and interested? I've lost track of who on >> the team from Red Hat Engineering is working on Infrastucture bits >> quietly ... >> >> - Karsten >> -- >> Karsten 'quaid' Wade >> http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com >> @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Infra mailing list >> Infra(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra >> -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra