On 2018-08-21 17:18:40 +0000 (+0000), Fox, Kevin M wrote: [...] > I'm really sure at this point that you can't have a project as > large as OpenStack without leadership setting a course and > sometimes making hard choices for the betterment of the whole. > That doesn't mean a benevolent dictator. But our self govened > model with elected officials should be a good balance. If they are > too unreasonable, they don't get reelected. But not leading isn't > an option either anymore. [...]
Divining a consensual direction in which to steer the community is not the same thing as telling people what to do, but is still very much leadership. But I'd rather stop dancing in generalities and just talk about concrete examples instead. In this case, separation of governance between Nova and (as of yet unnamed) placement teams. If the Nova team is against wholly handing over control of the placement service to the current placement contributors, then having the OpenStack Technical Committee tell them to get over it isn't the way to foster productive future relationships between those two groups of people. The placement team is already entirely empowered, should they wish, to fork the placement service out of the nova repository and then apply to the TC to have that recognized as a separate team but doing so in no way guarantees the Nova team will work with them to use that version of placement and deprecate the one on which they currently rely. For that, there needs to be a positive working relationship, one we can't simply demand into being, so it's in their best interests to work things out amicably and directly instead of asking someone else (the TC) to decide this for them. -- Jeremy Stanley
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