Call for volunteers

Lei Yu yulei.sh at bytedance.com
Wed Jan 13 16:38:42 AEDT 2021


I would like to volunteer, though I am in a different time zone and
may miss some of the meetings.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:10 AM Brad Bishop <bradleyb at 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.
>
> -brad, on the behalf of the OpenBMC TSC



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BRs,
Lei YU


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