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That's great news Russell.
TC did a great service to the community.

AlanClark

 
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> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I noticed that the requested topics for the next board meeting [1]
> includes "ATC recognition for contributors".  Based on some brief
> discussion at the "high 5" chat at the end of the last summit, I suspect
> this is related to people hearing concerns about providing ATC status
> for translation contributors.
> 
> For more information about ATC status, see the TC charter [2].  In
> particular:
> 
>> The work of project teams is performed under the oversight of the TC.
>> Contributing to one of their associated code repositories grants you
>> ATC status (see below). The TC has ultimate authority over which
>> project teams are designated as official OpenStack projects.
> 
> ...
> 
>> The TC seats are elected by the Active Technical Contributors
>> (“ATC”), which are a subset of the Foundation Individual Members.
>> Individual Members who committed a change to a repository under
>> ‘’any’’ of the official OpenStack Project Teams (as defined above)
>> over the last two 6-month release cycles are automatically considered
>> ATC. Specific contributors who did not have a change recently
>> accepted in one of the OpenStack projects but nevertheless feel their
>> contribution to the OpenStack project is technical in nature (bug
>> triagers, technical documentation writers...) can exceptionally apply
>> for ATC either by sending an email to the TC chair or by being
>> nominated by an existing ATC via email to the TC chair. Final
>> approval on the exception is decided by the TC itself, and is valid
>> one year (two elections).
> 
> We've had a mechanism to recognize extra types of contributions with ATC
> status for a while, but I do not recall it ever being used for
> translators.  However, the TC has now approved an internationalization team:
> 
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/184920/
> 
> In the commit message, it references how we will be able to pull stats
> from the translation tool to get contributor info.  As an official
> OpenStack project team, their contributions will be counted toward ATC
> status going forward.
> 
> For a full list of official OpenStack project teams, see:
> 
>     http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/index.html
> 
> Are there any other ATC concerns that anyone would like to raise with
> the TC?  If so, I'd be happy to chase those down.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1]
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/July_28,_2015,_F2F_9am_-_5pm_central,_Locati
> on_Austin,_Texas
> [2] http://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html
> 
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> Russell Bryant
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