[openstack-dev] [governance] Becoming a Program, before applying for incubation

Sylvain Bauza sylvain.bauza at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 16:44:25 UTC 2013


Thanks Thierry.

AFAIK, Compute ("Nova") is not having yet its own mission statement, so I
guess any project with different people than regular Nova ATCs should
consider an request for new Program if they feel there is difference in
terms of feature delivery ?

-Sylvain


2013/12/13 Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>

> Sylvain Bauza wrote:
> > While I agree with most of what Thierry said, I need clarifications
> > though, on what a Program is,
>
> A "team" is a group of people working on a given mission. They can be
> freely created. They apply to become an "OpenStack Program" if they feel
> their (well-established) mission is essential to the production of
> "OpenStack" and would like to place themselves under the authority of
> the Technical Committee.
>
> > and what is the key point where an idea
> > should get its own Program instead of being headed by an already
> > existing Program.
>
> Depends on who is involved, and if the proposed mission is overlapping
> with an existing Program's mission. If those are two different sets of
> people, or the missions diverge completely, then it makes sense to make
> a new program. If those teams share a lot of contributors and their
> missions can be aligned, making it a single program would probably be
> beneficial. And then there are all the shades of grey in between.
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>
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