Trust seed

[Mike Burns]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:27 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On 07/10/2012 07:13 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:52 +0300, Livnat Peer wrote:
> >> On 10/07/12 07:35, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I added Moran to my list just in case - I want to be sure we don't get
> in the way of work anyone is doing already, even if we aren't aware of
> it. By this I mean, some folks may be doing infrastructure work but
> haven't been making noise about that work; if that's happening, let's
> find a way to include such folks. Perhaps as you say, Moran and others
> could go through an Infra Team joining process, as long as that
> doesn't interfere with his ability to work?

Sure, that's fine.  Moran is pretty easy to accept anyway give the
@redhat.com email address...

Mike

> 
> - Karsten
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