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Excerpts from Ian Cordasco's message of 2017-02-16 11:20:45 -0500:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com>
> Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: February 16, 2017 at 10:13:51
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [chef] Making the Kitchen Great Again: A
> Retrospective on OpenStack & Chef
> 
> > On Feb 16, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> >
> > > When we signed off on the Big Tent changes we said competition
> > > between projects was desirable, and that deployers and contributors
> > > would make choices based on the work being done in those competing
> > > projects. Basically, the market would decide on the "optimal"
> > > solution. It's a hard message to hear, but that seems to be what
> > > is happening.
> >
> > This.
> >
> > We got much better at adding new things to OpenStack. We need to get better at letting go
> > of old things.
> 
> I agree with the idea of making it easier for new contributors from
> outside our walled garden of paid contributors. I won't further derail
> this thread with my opinions of how corporations will begin to exploit
> that and invest less directly in OpenStack's development though.

Influence comes with investment. The less someone contributes, the
less overall input they have into the direction. Entities that have
strong opinions about direction will still need to participate
consistently in order to convince other contributors to follow their
lead.

Doug

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