Open Stack

On 11/05/18 11:46, Jay Pipes wrote:
> 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"?

The thing I'm hoping to convince people of here is that the question is 
interesting independently of how you define that.

- ZB