[Starlingx-discuss] RFC: Updated governance doc on the wiki

[Thierry Carrez]

Jones, Bruce E wrote:
> Dean, thank you for this feedback.  I have made all of the changes you suggested to the Governance wiki page.
> 
> Additional feedback on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Starlingx/Initial_Governance is welcome!

Great work there (especially on the Project Lead rewritten paragraph)!

My only comment would be around the "no single organization may be 
represented by more than two seats at any given time" rule for TSC and 
how that would work in practice.

At election time it's pretty simple -- if the elected person would break 
the rule, just skip them and take the next ranked person.

It's a bit more tricky in case of job changes triggering the rule. Like 
some TSC member X moving to a company that already has 2 members. It 
would be a good idea to describe how to handle that (likely) situation 
so that you already know how to handle it.

Options would be for that person to immediately lose their TSC seat (to 
be replaced by next in line in the election results ?), or to keep it 
until the next election round, or to keep it but not have a formal vote 
until the next election... The mention that "Individuals are expected to 
continue to support the project in the event of career changes unless 
they notify the project that they are resigning their position" tend to 
point to one of the latter options, but it's a bit unclear.

In my experience, we tend to overthink those rules -- I think it would 
be safe to just wait until the next election to "fix" the situation. 
Those happen often enough anyway, and someone changing companies and 
continuing to work on the project is a lot more likely to wear their 
"project hat" rather than their "new company hat" anyway.

So my suggestion would be to replace "no single organization may be 
represented by more than two seats at any given time" by "no single 
organization may be represented by more than two seats after any 
election round".

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)