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Coordination and Leadership challenges in producing OpenStack Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez) Release management PTL OpenStack is large & growing 130 git repositories 1.8+ MLOC Stats by OpenStack is complex OpenStack is painful

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Coordination and Leadership challenges in producing OpenStack

Thierry Carrez (@tcarrez) Release management PTL

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OpenStack is large & growing

 130 git repositories  1.8+ MLOC

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OpenStack is complex

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OpenStack is painful

 Diffjcult to deploy  Diffjcult to test  Diffjcult to keep up with changes

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OpenStack is open innovation

 Anyone can propose a change  Lots of difgerent companies  Lots of difgerent countries / cultures  No traditional management structure

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Questions...

 How do we all work together ?  What are the coordination challenges ?  How do we lead ?  What are the leadership challenges ?

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Tips and tricks we use for Coordination

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Time-based releases

 Cycles for a common cadence  Milestones for a common breath rhythm

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Freezes and exceptions

 Focus  Catch-up  Communication

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Release management

 Enforce the rhythm and the freezes  Weekly sync points with PTLs  Weekly cross-project release meeting

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Design summits

 Celebrate last release  Brainstorm early ideas  Discuss and approve implementation  Make parallel efgorts converge

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Gate-centric development

 Everyone's code should be reviewed  Everyone's code should be tested  Sets a common baseline

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Coordination challenges

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How do we lead

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Governance model

 No benevolent dictator-for-life  Representative democracy

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PTLs

PTLs (program technical leads)

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OpenStack Technical Committee

Technical committee

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Leadership challenges

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Thank you !

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thierry@openstack.org http://fnords.wordpress.com @tcarrez on ttx on

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