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On 7/30/15, 4:26 PM, "Doug Hellmann" <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:

>Excerpts from Steven Dake (stdake)'s message of 2015-07-30 15:27:15 +0000:
>> 
>> On 7/29/15, 1:23 PM, "Doug Hellmann" <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Excerpts from Steven Dake (stdake)'s message of 2015-07-29 20:07:26
>>+0000:
>> >> Doug Hellman of the TC suggested we change the mission statement of
>> >>Kolla to be a little less specific.  The new mission statement I
>> >>submitted in the review is here Is basically cutting off the last part
>> >>of the mission statement sentence:
>> >> 
>> >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/206789/
>> >> 
>> >> If your a Kolla core eviewer, please vote ­1 (indicating you are a
>>core
>> >>reviewer in the review) if you dislike this change and think we should
>> >>strive to keep our mission unchanged.  If you don¹t really have a
>>strong
>> >>preference, please abstain from voting as to not add non-useful
>> >>information to the review.  Our core team knows what our true mission
>>is
>> >>and I don¹t think Doug¹s wording changes the mission significantly.
>> >
>> >My intent is not to change it at all, but to remove the "marketing
>> >fluff", to be consistent with the nature of the missions described
>> >by most of the other projects.  By all means, hold to those other
>> >ideals and goals, but in the project list we want the mission to
>> >say what you're doing as clearly and concisely as possible.
>> >
>> >Doug
>> 
>> Doug,
>> 
>> Its all good, I think the change you suggested simplifies the statement
>> without changing the intent.  We can still do all those other things as
>> you just indicated if we choose to.
>> 
>> I still want to give the core reviewer team an opportunity to vote on
>>the
>> change which is why I set the short deadline of Aug 3rd to vote -1 (and
>> act as a veto vote) which would trigger irc meetings to rework the
>>mission
>> statement.
>
>Sure, having the team vote & comment is absolutely appropriate, I
>just wanted to clarify the reasons for the change. :-)

Doug,

I communicated with all but one of our core reviewers (Martin Andre) who
is moving countries ATM and the core reviewer team are +1 on the mission
statement change.  I’m not sure when Martin gets settled, and I don’t want
to block.  Knowing Martin, he wouldn’t have a strong opinion on the matter.

Regards
-steve

>
>> Thanks for the good feedback, I actually think the modified mission
>> statement is faster to say which is always a good thing :)
>
>++
>
>Doug
>
>> 
>> Regards
>> -steve
>> 
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> I¹ll keep the schedule open until August 3rd and ask the TC to hold
>>off
>> >>on approving the submitted mission until the core team has not weighed
>> >>in with a ­1 vote.  A vote of ­1 will count as a veto from the core
>> >>reviewer team, and we will have to have some kind of
>>super-brainstorming
>> >>session like we did before to simplify the Kolla mission statement to
>> >>something the TC would accept.
>> >> 
>> >> Regards
>> >> -steve
>> >
>> 
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