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Adam Spiers wrote:
> Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> They did what they were asked and things have stalled. At this point, 
>> I think it comes down to priorities, and in order to prioritize 
>> something big like this that requires coordinated work across several 
>> projects, we are going to need more stakeholders coming forward and 
>> saying they also want this feature so the vendors who are paying the 
>> people to work upstream can be given specific time to give this the 
>> attention it needs. And that ties back into getting the top 1 or 2 
>> wishlist items from each SIG and trying to sort those based on what is 
>> the highest rated most common need for the greatest number of people - 
>> sort of like what we see happening with the resource delete API 
>> community wide goal proposal.
> 
> Agreed.  The Security SIG sounds like a natural home for it.  I'm going 
> to wildly speculate that maybe part of the reason it stalled is that it 
> was perceived as coming from a couple of individuals rather than a SIG. 
> If the initiative had been backed by the Security SIG as something worth 
> prioritising, then maybe it could have received wider attention.

Yes... As much as we'd like to think the problem here is purely 
technical, getting it done in an openly-collaborating community means 
it's also a social problem. It will compete with a LOT of other things 
to get priority.

In order to get it done, you need to make it well-known, and gather a 
bit of mindshare, so that it gets on people's radar with some amount of 
priority. That means the effort needs to be clearly identified (give it 
a distinctive name), and a lot of communication needs to be done around 
it (presentations, forum/PTG sessions, ML status reports...).

Working under a SIG umbrella definitely facilitates that "promotion" 
side of the work, since SIGs already have some visibility built in. The 
"top 2 wishlist per SIG" idea is just one way to encourage focusing this 
promotion effort on a limited number of things at the same time, because 
there is just no way you can promote 10 different things and expect them 
all to stick.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)