On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:56 AM Doug Hellmann <doug@doughellmann.com> 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 didn't really think about it much until Chris' first set of TC questions,

but like I said there, I would like the TC to take a more hands-on role

in solving large technical problems in OpenStack. We should be looking to the

user and operator communities to see what their true pain points are - the

things that wake support up at 2am. It probably isn't mutable config, tempest

plugin structure, or identity configuration, as awesome as those are. We

should be looking at the problems that seem insurmountable; if we don't, who

else will? I'm not sure if the TC should prescribe solutions or simply

work with projects to explore them, but I suspect the former may be the most

technically beneficial to OpenStack in the long run. I'm not sure what that

would do to the community, though - is it worth it if it causes rifts there?

As far as what OpenStack should be doing - I believe we should put more focus

on these operational problems. Since feature work seems to have slowed down

some since the peak of the hype cycle, we should be able to manage making

large changes underneath ongoing work. From what I've seen in the wider tech

community, there's a sizable cohort of people who have tried OpenStack and

now recommend against it when folks ask. Let's create less of these people,

and maybe even gain some back. :)

I don't have specific items that I think we should address in the given time

frames, as I haven't done enough research to be able to say.

// jim