On Jan 15, 2019, at 5:01 AM, Chris Dent <cdent+os@anticdent.org> wrote:
Then I implied that the TC cannot do anything like actionable and unified technical leadership because they have little to no real executive power and what power they do have (for example, trying to make openstack-wide goals) is in conflict (because of the limits of time and space) with the goals that PTLs (and others) are trying to enact.
Thus: What if the TC and PTLs were the same thing? Would it become more obvious that there's too much in play to make progress in a unified direction (on the thing called OpenStack), leading us to choose less to do, and choose more consistency and actionable leadership? And would it enable some power to execute on that leadership.
Early on in the development of OpenStack there was a lot of discussion about having a group of elected people act as a sort of BDFL (or, more properly, BDFT, where s/Life/Term). Remember, this was when there was Nova and Swift, and not much else. That approach was abandoned in favor of a more bottom-up approach, and as the number of projects and teams in OpenStack grew, so did the opinions on technical direction. As a result, OpenStack has attracted the sort of people who tend to bristle at the notion of a leader or group of leaders determining technical policy and direction. I always have been and still continue to favor a unified direction for OpenStack as a whole, but I recognize that that ship sailed a long, long time ago, and that trying to add some of that back now would not sit well with most of the community. -- Ed Leafe