Principia / DevOps / leadership and governance

[Robbie Williamson]

On 05/27/2011 12:37 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> 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.
> 
+1 on the nominees from me as well.

> 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.
> 
+1 and I'd nominate Kapil Thangevalu

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