Maintainer Nomination - Samuel Tauil

[samueltauil]

I would like to nominate myself and opening for vote/opinions.

[scottrigby]

Hi @samueltauil Thanks for this. I know you were on the cdCon + GitOpsCon program committee but would you and/or others outline why folks should vote for Samuel to be an OpenGitOps maintainer?

While I've personally had a period of less public involvement in the WG and project (hopefully to participate more publicly again soon), I still want to help ensure this process is fair and transparent to everyone in the GitOps community. Check out the examples of past nominations here: https://github.com/open-gitops/project/pulls?q=is%3Apr+maintainer+is%3Aclosed.

This is something we also require folks who volunteer to join one of the teams - for example #122. It's also good to distinguish whether what you want to do can be accomplished by joining one or more of the project teams, rather than necessarily being a project maintainer.

To clarify the differences:

• Maintainers: see the list of responsibilities outlined under "Maintainers" in the OpenGitOps Governance https://github.com/open-gitops/project/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#maintainers for this and all decisions by the group of maintainers.
• Team members: See the TEAMS document here: https://github.com/open-gitops/project/blob/main/TEAMS.md. Teams are actually the updated term for "Committees". See that section in the Governance doc currently called "Committees" https://github.com/open-gitops/project/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#committees

PS "Committees" in the Governance doc should be updated to "Teams." That's a follow-up task in a list on this PR #148. Those follow-up tasks really should become new issues, if someone wants to help make those.