Chris Dent <cdent+os@anticdent.org> writes:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Zane Bitter wrote:
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.
I'm not sure we need to speculate, because as you know the TC and PTLs literally were the same thing prior to 2014-ish. My recollection is that there were pluses and minuses, but on the whole I don't think it had the effect you're suggesting it might.
Part and parcel of what I'm suggesting is that less stuff would be considered in the domain of "what do we do?" such that the tyranny of the old/existing projects that you describe is a feature not a bug, as an in-built constraint.
It's not a future I really like, but it is one strategy for enabling moving in one direction: cut some stuff. Stop letting so many flowers bloom.
Letting those flowers bloom is in the camp of "contribution in all its many and diverse forms".
What would you prune? -- Doug