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    YES!  very very well said.<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/27/2015 10:38 AM, Barrett, Carol
      L wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks
            Rob – so when capabilities become accepted in the market
            Defcore ensures support for them moving forward, until it’s
            no longer appropriate.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ll
            take up my branding concerns with the marketing side of the
            house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Carol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            name="_MailEndCompose"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                Rob Hirschfeld [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:rob@zehicle.com">mailto:rob@zehicle.com</a>]
                <br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 27, 2015 8:36 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Barrett, Carol L; Rob Hirschfeld; Shamail<br>
                <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org">defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Trying to
                explain Guidelines... here's what I'm thinking [feedback
                welcome]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Carol,<br>
          <br>
          DefCore can't.  IMHO, it one of Vendors' roles to select,
          validate and support new capabilities.  DefCore comes along
          after those capabilities are broadly adopted.  It would be an
          anti-pattern if we selected capabilities that were only in one
          or two products/distros.<br>
          <br>
          The reason to move away from releases was to decouple this
          exact discussion.  DefCore is not about features in releases
          but long term capabilities of the platform.<br>
          <br>
          Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
        <div>
          <p class="MsoNormal">On 02/27/2015 10:00 AM, Barrett, Carol L
            wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rob
              – With my Branding hat on, it’s less about API uptake and
              more about the connotation of the Brand on a release. If
              the OpenStack Brand on a distro means a promise of
              quality, interoperability and backward compatibility how
              can we deliver on that for new capabilities without having
              evaluated them and ensure there’s appropriate testing?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Carol</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
                  Rob Hirschfeld [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:rob@zehicle.com">mailto:rob@zehicle.com</a>]
                  <br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:41 PM<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Barrett, Carol L; Rob Hirschfeld; Shamail<br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org">defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Trying to
                  explain Guidelines... here's what I'm thinking
                  [feedback welcome]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Carol,<br>
            <br>
            Let me turn that around.  If a project released new
            capabilities out of cycle, how quickly would you expect them
            to surface into the DefCore guidelines?<br>
            <br>
            By design, we select for widely-used APIs.  So, how fast
            should we expect a new feature to get wide adoption.<br>
            <br>
            Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">On 02/26/2015 03:48 PM, Barrett, Carol
              L wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
                expect that the unpredictability of project releases
                will create challenges in many ways. Branding is one of
                them – if a project releases new capabilities out of
                cycle to the core-projects release of the Defcore
                definition update, those new features will not be
                covered by the Brand (which means they haven’t been
                validated to a certain level nor is there any backward
                API compatibility promise). How will an end-user know
                that?  If the Brand doesn’t simplify the purchasing
                process for the end-user, then we’re not on the right
                track..imho.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
                Rob Hirschfeld [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:rob@rackn.com">mailto:rob@rackn.com</a>]
                <br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:42 PM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Shamail<br>
                <b>Cc:</b> Barrett, Carol L; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org">
                  defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Trying to
                explain Guidelines... here's what I'm thinking [feedback
                welcome]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
            <div>
              <p class="MsoNormal">Good questions.  We're including
                which releases are covered in each guideline so, for
                example, you can track DefCore 2015.07 to the I,J &
                K releases.  You can't use that guideline against H or
                L <o:p></o:p></p>
            </div>
            <div>
              <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:38 PM,
                  Shamail <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:itzshamail@gmail.com" target="_blank">itzshamail@gmail.com</a>>
                  wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Carol,<br>
                  <br>
                  I agree with the concern but I think (I didn't attend
                  the F2F) some of this may be driven by the fact that
                  we don't necessarily have a concrete definition of
                  what a release may look like in the future.<br>
                  <br>
                  If the releases (due to project structure reform) end
                  up having a cadence with a usual group of components
                  then I could see aligning with releases but I think
                  some of that is TBD at this point, therefore this
                  seems like a safe bet.<br>
                  <br>
                  Thanks,<br>
                  Shamail<br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  > On Feb 26, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Barrett, Carol L
                  <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:carol.l.barrett@intel.com">carol.l.barrett@intel.com</a>>
                  wrote:<br>
                  ><br>
                  > I am concerned about achieving the Brand goal, 
                  using a month/year approach rather than a release
                  approach. Is the expectation that a vendor will pull
                  the upstream  for the month/year Defcore test and ship
                  a product?  If a vendor release cycle is offset by 2
                  months, what would use to validate their Brand
                  compliance? My thought is by that time new things will
                  be included in a variety of projects that will be
                  included in the Vendor release but not comprehended in
                  the 2 month old Defcore definition.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > Carol<br>
                  ><br>
                  > -----Original Message-----<br>
                  > From: Rob Hirschfeld [mailto:<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rob@zehicle.com">rob@zehicle.com</a>]<br>
                  > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:37 AM<br>
                  > To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org">defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
                  > Subject: Re: [OpenStack-DefCore] Trying to
                  explain Guidelines... here's what I'm thinking
                  [feedback welcome]<br>
                  ><br>
                  > Chris Lee pinged me about missing a note
                  Component & Platform levels.<br>
                  > We need to include that in the Guidelines.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > Good catch Chris!<br>
                  ><br>
                  >> On 02/26/2015 12:46 PM, Rob Hirschfeld wrote:<br>
                  >> DefCore... does this explain Guidelines?<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> Last week, the OpenStack DefCore committee
                  rolled up our collective<br>
                  >> sleeves and got to work in a serious way.  We
                  had a in-person meeting<br>
                  >> with great turn out with 5 board members,
                  Foundation executives/staff<br>
                  >> and good community engagement.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> TL;DR > We think DefCore should dated
                  milestone guidelines instead<br>
                  >> tightly coupled to release events (see
                  graphic<br>
                  >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://robhirschfeld.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/defcore-timeline1.png"
                    target="_blank">
https://robhirschfeld.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/defcore-timeline1.png</a>).<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> DefCore has a single goal expressed from two
                  sides: 1) defining the<br>
                  >> "what is OpenStack" brand for Vendors and 2)
                  driving interoperability<br>
                  >> between OpenStack installations.  From that
                  perspective, it is not<br>
                  >> about releases, but about testable stable
                  capabilities.  Over time,<br>
                  >> these changes should be incremental and, most
                  importantly, trail<br>
                  >> behind new features that are added.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> For those reasons, it was becoming confusing
                  for DefCore to focus on<br>
                  >> an "Icehouse" definition when most of the
                  capabilities listed are<br>
                  >> "Havana" ones.  We also created significant
                  time pressure to get the<br>
                  >> "Kilo DefCore" out quickly after the release
                  even though there were no<br>
                  >> "Kilo" specific additions covered.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> In the face-to-face, we settled on a more
                  incremental approach.<br>
                  >> DefCore would regularly post a set of
                  guidelines for approval by the<br>
                  >> Board.  These Guidelines would include the
                  required, deprecated<br>
                  >> (leaving) and advisory (coming) capabilities
                  required for Vendors to<br>
                  >> use the mark (see footnote*).  They would
                  also include the relevant<br>
                  >> designated sections.  These Guidelines would
                  use the open draft and<br>
                  >> discussion process that we are in the process
                  of outlining for<br>
                  >> approval in Vancouver.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> Since DefCore Guidelines are simple time
                  based lists of capabilities,<br>
                  >> the vendors and community can simply
                  reference an approved Guideline<br>
                  >> using the date of approval (for example
                  DefCore 2015.03) and know<br>
                  >> exactly what was included.  While each
                  Guideline stands alone, it is<br>
                  >> easy to compare them for incremental changes.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> We've been getting positive feedback about
                  this change; however, we<br>
                  >> are still discussing it appreciate your input
                  and questions. It is<br>
                  >> very important for us to make DefCore simple
                  and easy.  For that, your<br>
                  >> confused looks and WTF? comments are very
                  helpful.<br>
                  >><br>
                  >> * footnote: the Foundation manages that
                  process the Vendors. DefCore<br>
                  >> Guidelines are just one part of the brand
                  process.<br>
                  ><br>
                  > --<br>
                  ><br>
                  ><br>
                  > Rob<br>
                  > ____________________________<br>
                  > Rob Hirschfeld, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="tel:512-773-7522">512-773-7522</a><br>
                  ><br>
                  > I am in CENTRAL (-6) time<br>
                  > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://robhirschfeld.com" target="_blank">http://robhirschfeld.com</a><br>
                  > twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt<br>
                  ><br>
                  ><br>
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                      Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522<br>
                      RackN CEO/Founder (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                      I am in CENTRAL (-6) time<br>
                      <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://robhirschfeld.com" target="_blank">http://robhirschfeld.com</a><br>
                      twitter: @zehicle, github: cloudedge & ravolt</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Rob Hirschfeld, 512-773-7522

I am in CENTRAL (-6) time
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://robhirschfeld.com">http://robhirschfeld.com</a>
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