Trust seed

[Mike Burns]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:52 +0300, Livnat Peer wrote:
> On 10/07/12 07:35, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> > As discussed in last week's meeting, I'm proposing myself as a trust
> > seed for this team. Here's what that means, why me, and what it does
> > for us. Full consensus requested, please: +1, +0, or -1 (latter with
> > reasoning included.)
> > 
> > We need to make the leap with this project and begin trusting each
> > other enough to share root/sudo access on production servers[1]. By a
> > "trust seed" I mean, a person who all others involved trust in
> > deciding who else to trust. As a seed, it's a one time thing - once
> > created, the initial trust circle will decide for itself how to
> > perpetuate, i.e., how to add new people in to the trust circle.
> > 
> > Regarding my qualifications for being trusted and extending trust,
> > some supporting points:
> > 
> > * Some of you have met me in person, at the initial oVirt workshop and
> > other locations.
> > * Demonstrated involvement in oVirt (presuming my wiki and GPG
> > accounts are not compromised, I have commit and email history to show
> > involvement.)
> > * Trust in Red Hat can extend to me, based on my 10+ years employment,
> > etc.
> > * Presence and positions of trust in other open source projects,
> > namely the Fedora Project.
> > * Experience working in Fedora Infrastructure as part of a distance
> > team of people who have never all met in person.
> > * Handful of videos of me talking at conferences, identified by name,
> > and so forth.
> > 
> > I can provide references for the above, if requested.
> > 
> > Thanks - Karsten
> 
> 
> +1, Karsten I think you are doing a great work in ovirt in general and I
> wish you luck making the infra sub-project a successful one.

+1 to Karsten being the initial seed and +1 to other infra members being
grandfathered.

> 
> I would like to suggest that Moran Goldboim would also be included in
> the trust seed of the infra project.
> 
> I think Moran is doing a lot of work in oVirt, he is well familiar in
> the oVirt community and has a lot of knowledge to contribute to the
> infra sub-project.
My only question here is whether Moran has already done work in the
infra team.  There is certainly work done in other projects, but not
much in the infra team that I recall.  Perhaps add Moran as the first or
second person through the process?

Mike

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> Livnat
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> > 
> > [1] If we move to OpenShift (or similar), then the admin access is who
> > has keys to update the app on OpenShift; ultimately the same trust
> > issues need to be resolved.
> > - -- 
> > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth
> > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org  .^\  http://community.redhat.com
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