The present document dresses up a proposal for a revamped "stream" process which will try to address several points of improvements of the current approach.
We propose to re-orient the purpose of the stream to knowledge sharing. The stream should be a place to share existing knowledge, not acquire new knowledge. This excludes from the stream such tasks like investigative or study work, "helpdesk" issues or how-to questions. These could instead be performed as part of a project, redirected to the CG, or asked on HipChat, depending on the scope and situation. New knowledge acquired during such tasks may of course be thereafter proposed to be shared within the stream. In fact, this should even be encouraged.