[openstack-dev] [all] Topics for the Board+TC+UC meeting in Vancouver

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri May 11 15:46:05 UTC 2018


On 05/10/2018 08:12 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
> On 10/05/18 16:45, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>> On 5/10/2018 3:38 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
>>> How can we avoid (or get out of) the local maximum trap and ensure 
>>> that OpenStack will meet the needs of all the users we want to serve, 
>>> not just those whose needs are similar to those of the users we 
>>> already have?
>>
>> The phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind here. 
> 
> Stipulating the constraint that you can't please everybody, how do you 
> ensure that you're meeting the needs of the users who are most important 
> to the long-term sustainability of the project, and not just the ones 
> who were easiest to bootstrap?

Who gets to decide who the users are "that are most important to the 
long-term sustainability of the project"?

Assuming there is a single definition of what "the project" actually is...

Best,
-jay



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