[openstack-dev] The future of Incubation and Core - a motion

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Mon Nov 19 09:48:10 UTC 2012


Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>     The only way I see this fitting with the existing discussion is by
>>     contextualizing it to the Board's list of "OpenStack Trademark
>>     Projects" vs. the TC's list of "OpenStack Projects"... or more
>>     specifically by saying that Incubation is the process by which a
>>     project becomes an "OpenStack Project" by the TC's standards, but
>>     the Board may choose to include it or not in the list of projects
>>     which may use the trademark.
> 
> Is it a question of the project using the trademark, or of deployers
> being required to use the project in order to use the trademark? It
> would be really awkward to have to say "Ceilometer is cloud metering for
> that big open source cloud management system we're not allowed to name." ;-)

I suspect in all cases you'd be able to say "Ceilometer is cloud
metering for OpenStack". But you may need to be in the BoD list for the
project to be called "OpenStack Metrics" instead of just "Ceilometer".

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)




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