All the bits and pieces of OpenStack are interconnected and interdependent across the many groupings of technology and people. When we plan or make changes, wiggling something here has consequences over there. Some intended, some unintended.

This is such commonly accepted wisdom that to say it risks being a cliche …

Over the time that I've been observing the TC, there's been quite a lot of indecision about how and when to exercise power. The rules and regulations of OpenStack governance have it that the TC has pretty broad powers in terms of allowing and disallowing projects to be "official" and …

Here's TC Report 24. The last one was 4 weeks ago, itself following a gap. In the intervening time new TC members (Graham Hayes, Mohammed Naser, and Zane Bitter) and a new Chair (Doug Hellman) have found their feet very well, we had a successful and moderately dramatic OpenStack Summit …

Trying to write a TC report after a gap of 3 weeks is hard enough, but when that gap involves some time off, the TC elections, and the run up to summit (next week in Vancouver) then it gets bewildering. Rather than trying to give anything like a full summary …