> On Nov 10, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Chris Dent <cdent...@anticdent.org > <mailto:cdent...@anticdent.org>> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Ash wrote: > > I couldn't agree more. I don't like change for the sake of change (in any > aspect of my life). So in my mind this would have to be a way to better > bind us. > > Here, have some tortured metaphors: > > Something that feels like it gets under-emphasised in this conversation > is that change is coming whatever we do. As a community we can either > move quickly and stay ahead of the change and see it as a productive > development that we can surf or we can dilly dally and get drowned by a > wave that collapses over us. > > Ecosystems must evolve and change because the world evolves and changes. > If we try to control this stuff too much what we will be doing is taking > the oxygen out of the system and snuffing the flame of excitement and > innovation. > > As a community we don't want to be bound together by rules, we want > to be enabled by processes that support making and doing things > effectively. The things that we make and do is what binds us > together. > > The conversations about additional languages in this community have > been one our most alarmingly regressive and patronizing. They seem > to be bred out of fear rather than hope and out of lack of faith in > each other than in trust. We've got people who want to build stuff. > Isn't that the important part? > > Let's just get on with making stuff and work out the problems (and of > course there will be many, there always are) as they happen. That's > what we do. > > Agreed, Chris. I think this topic has reflected quite poorly on OpenStack, > so far.
Also agreed. Like it or not, this topic is a proxy debate for whether it’s worth the risk to invest in OpenStack for new things. And doubling down on more process is not sending a great message. Thanks, doug > > -- > Russell Bryant > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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