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On 14/11/13 13:41 -0500, Jay Pipes wrote:
>So while I have been on vacation, I've been thinking about Solum and Heat.
>
>And I have some lingering questions in my mind that make me question 
>whether a new server project is actually necessary at all, and 
>whether we really should just be targeting innovation and resources 
>towards the Heat project.
>
>What exactly is Solum's API going to control that is not already 
>represented in Heat's API and the HOT templating language? At this 
>point, I'm really not sure, and I'm hoping that we can discuss this 
>important topic before going any further with Solum. Right now, I see 
>so much overlap that I'm questioning where the differences really 
>are.
>
>Thoughts?

I am very happy with how other projects have built on top
of heat. I think one reason this happens is Heat is trying
to focus on one main problem - Orchestrating restful resources.

If we stick to this (and we are not overly opinionated) this
fosters other projects to develop on top. If we were in
a situation where Heat included solum's features it might
hinder Heat's adoption for other usecases.

To me solum brings an opionated view to the world where
there is a specific way of creating/managing applications/services
that may not appeal to everyone. Hopefully it will apeal
to lots though! (just a particular user).

One of Heat's main jobs is to make developing projects like 
solum, tuskar, tripleO, trove & xlcloud easier to implement.

And these projects will encourage more exciting projects further
up the stack. The further up the stack we go the more inovation
we can inspire. It all starts with building reliable simple
building blocks that can be easily used.


-Angus

>-jay
>
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