Meeting Minutes - Office Hours for CTI - 2026-08-28

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep  8, 2026, Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Sep 2026, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Our current voluntary hosting arrangements listen to and participate in
>> the community.  If we want to try something out, they're normally happy
>> to lend us a hand and make it happen.
>> 
>> A professional hosting arrangement will involve a professional
>> relationship, in which only designated parties will be able to submit
>> requests in order to have them as much as listened to.
>> 
>> This is not AT ALL in the best interest of the community.

> As far as possible, configuration changes for production infrastructure 
> *should* be slow and carefully considered, rather than just happening 
> because one community member thought a change was a good idea and one 
> hosting person then implemented it, possibly disrupting things for other 
> people, deviating from a previous community consensus or introducing a 
> security vulnerability.

Agreed.  Not at all my point.

My point is that in the current arrangement the community can discuss
(in this mailing list) and come to an agreement, and then whoever the
community appoints can take the request to the volunteer operators.

In the proposed arrangement, the community can discuss (in this mailing
list) and come to an agreement, and then a shrinking fraction of the
technical committee in the CTI that actually represents our community
will perhaps take it to a CTI meeting and then maybe report back that
they couldn't get approval to as much as issue a request.

What twisted logic would make the latter better for the community?

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