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Excerpts from Steven Dake (stdake)'s message of 2015-08-03 15:47:28 +0000:
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> On 7/30/15, 4:26 PM, "Doug Hellmann" <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
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> >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.

Excellent, so we can move ahead as planned.

Thanks,
Doug

> 
> 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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