[CentOS-virt] Resigning as lead of the Virt SIG

Sat Jan 9 17:39:37 UTC 2016
Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5 at fedoraproject.org>

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 07:37:46AM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wanted to let you know that I feel I need to step down as leader of the
> > Virtualisation SIG. When I originally was approached by KB to do this, it
> > was always clear that this would be a temporary thing until the SIG got
> > going. At the time, only Xen and CentOS folks were involved with the SIG.
> > Since then, we added oVirt and Docker maintainers, have a total of 5
> > maintainers and built good momentum.
> >
> > There are two reasons why I feel I should step down as leader of the Virt
> > SIG: a) I have been traveling too much and thus did not have the bandwidth
> > to do this job justice in recent months. b) In addition, it would also make
> > more sense for one of the Virt SIG maintainers who is more closely involved
> > with day-to-day activities to pick up this job. I will still be able to
> > help with PR and other items.
> >
> > When I was absent over the last few months, George Dunlap (gwd on irc) did
> > most of the groundwork and led SIG meetings on my behalf, so I wanted to
> > propose that George leads the SIG going forward. That is assuming that none
> > of the other SIG maintainers want to step up. George agreed in principle.
> >
> > In the last Virt SIG meeting, not all maintainers were present, so we
> > couldn't make a formal decision. KB said the following:
> >
> > kbsingh: I think if gwd is ok with it, and people are ok in the SIG, its
> > good for me
> >
> > This means that succession either has to be settled in the next SIG
> > meeting, or by e-mail responding to this thread. I don't think there is any
> > formal process, but I would suggest that the maintainers listed on
> > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization should have a
> > say either at the next IRC meeting or by replying to this email thread.
> >
> >
> +1 for George Dunlap
> 

+1 for gwd!

Sorry for the late reply, I've been out for a bit, new year+PTO etc. etc.
In other news, we have a co-maintainer for docker and co. packages who'll
probably be introducing herself over IRC or mailing list soon-ish.


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Lokesh
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