<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">+1 - I tend to ignore the PTLs when making decisions about what we would invest in.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>Joshua McKenty</div><div>Chief Technology Officer</div><div>Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.</div><div>+1 (650) 242-5683</div><div>+1 (650) 283-6846</div><div><a href="http://www.pistoncloud.com">http://www.pistoncloud.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Oh, Westley, we'll never survive!"<br>"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."</div></div></div>
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<br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Stefano Maffulli <<a href="mailto:stefano@openstack.org">stefano@openstack.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri 15 Nov 2013 11:04:43 AM PST, Tim Bell wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">To explain a bit of background for these various volunteer proposals,<br>we had a session at the Summit to discuss how to close the 'operator'<br>feedback loop, i.e. take the survey feedback, translate it into user<br>stories and blue prints and then determine a priority order.<br></blockquote><br>I kept thinking about this since I saw the first slides of your<br>presentation in HK: how do we effectively transform the results of the<br>survey and the knowledge about users into decisions for the product?<br><br>I have the impression that talking to PTLs alone may not be sufficient<br>and we may want to get in touch with product managers from companies<br>shipping products based on OpenStack, asking their feedback and<br>commitment. PTLs have their opinions about priorities of features and<br>bug fixes, users have opinions about them too and product managers are<br>probably the ones more likely capable of dedicating resources to them<br>anyway (PTLs in the end are generals with no army).<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>-stef<br><br>-- <br>Ask and answer questions on <a href="https://ask.openstack.org">https://ask.openstack.org</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>User-committee mailing list<br><a href="mailto:User-committee@lists.openstack.org">User-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/user-committee<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>