Re: Call for volunteers

[Gunnar Mills <gmills@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 1/12/2021 9:55 AM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:10 PM Brad Bishop <bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello OpenBMC-ers!
>>
>> Your TSC has been aware of the problem of fragmentation in our project for some
>> time.  Fragmentation is a loose term - for the purposes of this note consider
>> it to be any time contributor efforts in the community are duplicated without
>> thought given to maintenance and/or compatibility.
>>
>> To begin to address this issue the TSC is looking for volunteers to serve on a
>> "repository review forum" to which the TSC will initially delegate its
>> authority in the areas of:
>> - new repository creation
>> - placement of contributed new function into existing repositories
>>
>> The TSC fully expects the scope of this forum to quickly grow into the role of
>> a traditional TSC providing frequent, technical oversight to project
>> contributors.  The current TSC will continue to serve the project in terms of
>> governance, advocacy and industry exposure - and likely get a rename (OpenBMC
>> Board? or OpenBMC Steering Committee?) in the process.
>>
>> The new forum would meet periodically or at the demand of other forum members
>> to:
>> - raise the forums combined awareness of new function under development
>>     (information exchange)
>> - build a consensus within the forum on where the function should exist
>> - inform the function contributor and the rest of the community of the decision
>>
>> A successful forum would be a forum that can simultaneously encourage the
>> contribution of new and innovative solutions to existing problems without
>> introducing complexity to the project as a whole.
>>
>> A successful forum member will have previously demonstrated a breadth of
>> understanding of the upstream OpenBMC codebase through:
>> - frequent participation in peer review, the mailing list, IRC, and Discord.
>> - submission of high quality designs and code to upstream OpenBMC
>>     (github.com/openbmc)
>> - a history of working with and guiding less experienced OpenBMC developers
>>     in a timely manner, enabling them to come up to speed quickly.
>>
>> If you are interested in serving the project in this manner, please reply to
>> submit yourself as a candidate.
> 
> I'll volunteer.
> 

I would like to nominate Brad. ;)

> 
>>
>> -brad, on the behalf of the OpenBMC TSC