Open Stack

On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 13:14 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
> > * Where would openstack/requirements fall ?
> 
> I think openstack/requirements sits under oslo - although right now
> it's a joint-venture between oslo and infra. 

If you look at the Oslo "mission statement(s)":

  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo

  The Oslo program produces a set of python libraries containing
  infrastructure code shared by OpenStack projects. The APIs provided by
  these libraries should be high quality, stable, consistent and
  generally useful. 

  The Oslo program brings together generalist code reviewers and
  specialist API maintainers. They share a common interest in tackling
  copy-and-paste technical debt across the OpenStack project.

then the overlap with openstack/requirements isn't at all obvious.

Not to try and lump this solely on Thierry or anything, but I see this
as a release/distribution management concern - the fundamental question
is what external dependencies (and what version of those) is it sane for
us to require in order to deploy OpenStack?

Looking again at the review criteria:

  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Requirements

those questions are all about keeping a firm control over what external
risks we expose ourselves (e.g. flakey upstreams) and that the
dependency is compatible with our release goals (e.g. license, python
version, distro availability).

Cheers,
Mark.