Principia / DevOps / leadership and governance

[Jonathan Lange]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
...
> In short, we'll be building a community of devops, defining, debating,
> collaborating and maintaining a large collection of formulas. It's that
> community that I think will need steering, in the same way that the TB
> provides a forum for architectural and structural issues across the whole
> archive.
>
...
> As a lead, I would nominate Clint Byrum, a member of the Server Team with a
> passion for devops who's taken to Ensemble like a duck to water. As other
> members of the Principia Council, I would nominate Yuan Negron and Marc
> Cluet, who work in Canonical helping large deployments of Ubuntu. Clint is
> an Ubuntu Member but I don't think either Yuan or Marc are, yet.
> Nevertheless, the field is so embryonic that I think it is appropriate to
> bootstrap in this fashion.
>

Makes sense.

Should an Ensemble developer also be on the initial council? Formulas
and Principia are so heavily tied to the technology that I wonder just
how much direction a board like this could provide without having some
kind of influence over lp:ensemble.

jml