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 penStack
  • 3 elected members
  • 6 Teams/Working Groups
  • 75+ User Groups worldwide

OpenStack Project Teams

  • Maintain a OpenStack Projekt (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
  • Fight 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
  • Supports 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
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