Questions about Questions

How to coordinate thousands of developers?

Who decides where to go?

How can you join in there?

Why should you do this?

Board of Directors

• Overview about finance and strategy
• Protects trademark rights for OpenStack
• Consists of
  • Representative of Platin Sponsors
  • Elected representative of Gold Sponsors
  • Elected Individuals
• Public Board Meetings ~4 times the year

Technical Committee

• Overview about technical matters and upstream open source developement
• 13 members elected by Active Technical Contributor (ATC)
• Published Guiding Principles like 4 O's:          Open Source * Open Design * Open Developement * Open Community
• Maintains OpenStack Project Teams

User Committee

• Represents Downstream Users of OpenStack
• 3 elected members
• 6 Teams/Working Groups
• 75+ User Groups worldwide

OpenStack Project Teams

• Maintain a OpenStack Project (e.g. Nova, Neutron)
• Report to Technical Comitee
• Over 60 Project Teams
• Meetings on a weekly base
• New teams on demand

Project Team Lead (PTL)

• Elected for each cycle
• Leads the Project Team
• Fights for Release Goals
• Fights for Release Cycle
• Monitor Bugs and Blueprints
• Plan Team Meetings
• Participate TC Meetings

Core Reviewer

• Proposed and set-in by PTL
• PTL Support
• Review Proposals
• Rate and solve bugs
• Develop new functions
• Able to merge code
• Participate Team Meetings
• Support others

Active Technical Contributors (ATC)

• Part of Foundation Individual Members
• Contributed in an official project in the last two release cycles
• Common Source-Code, Translations and Documentation as well
• Mentioned in the Release Notes

We note

• Decision makers on all levels elected
• Tasks clearly defined
• For each problem is a solution

OpenStack Release Zyklus

• Each 6 months a new Release
• Milestone 1/2 Spec Freeze (~ 6 weeks - 3 months)
• Milestone 3 Feature Freeze/Soft String Freeze (5 months)
• RC1 Hard String Freeze (3 weeks before Release)
• Final RC (1 week before Release)
• Release (0) + Deadline (+2 weeks) = Current
• Maintenance Phase 2 (+6 months)
• Maintenance Phase 3 (+12 months) - EOL
  • ++ long term support

Communication

• Mailing-Lists for announcements and discussions
  • http://lists.openstack.org
• Wiki for permanent information storage
  • https://wiki.openstack.org
• IRC for real time communication
  • http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/

Motivation

• Full-time developer with mandate
• Interested leisure programmer

Guides

• The 4 O (Open Source, Open Design, Open Developement, Open Community)
• Summit
• Project Teams Gathering

Guides 2

• Peer Review (Gerrit)
• Gate checks (Zuul)
• ChatOps (Gerritbot)

References

• https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/opens.html
• https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
• https://zuul-ci.org/

What did we learn?

• From the community, many working methods can be learned
• The tools used are open source
• This only works through participation

Chodźmy!