On 21/02/2019 12:52, Doug Hellmann wrote:
With the changes at the Foundation level, adding new OIPs, a few board members have suggested that this is an opportunity for the TC to evolve from providing what some have seen as tactical management through dealing with day-to-day issues to more long-term strategic leadership for the project. This theme has also come up in the recent discussions of the role of the TC, especially when considering how to make community-wide technical decisions and how much influence the TC should have over the direction individual projects take.
What do you think OpenStack, as a whole, should be doing over the next 1, 3, and 5 years? Why?
I think that as a project we should be looking at ways to be good nieghbours to other Open Source Infrastructure projects (both inside and outside of the OpenStack Foundation). From the Foundation level I think we fall into the Data Centre Stratigic Focus Area, and this is a good place for us to focus our efforts - becoming the Linux of the datacentre is a good goal. This does not mean just compute either - replacing as much of the DC boxes as we can should be our goal. Things like load balancing, networking, DNS (of course), GPUs / FPGAs, are all as much a part of automating the datacentre as compute and storage. Doing it in a way that is portable, so that other projects know that if they target OpenStack as a base they get a known base is also core to this.