[openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

Eoghan Glynn eglynn at redhat.com
Thu Aug 14 09:02:15 UTC 2014


> >> Letting the industry field-test a project and feed their experience
> >> back into the community is a slow process, but that is the best
> >> measure of a project's success. I seem to recall this being an
> >> implicit expectation a few years ago, but haven't seen it discussed in
> >> a while.
> > 
> > I think I recall us discussing a "must have feedback that it's
> > successfully deployed" requirement in the last cycle, but we recognized
> > that deployers often wait until a project is integrated.
> 
> In the early discussions about incubation, we respected the need to
> officially recognize a project as part of OpenStack just to create the
> uptick in adoption necessary to mature projects. Similarly, integration is a
> recognition of the maturity of a project, but I think we have graduated
> several projects long before they actually reached that level of maturity.
> Actually running a project at scale for a period of time is the only way to
> know it is mature enough to run it in production at scale.
> 
> I'm just going to toss this out there. What if we set the graduation bar to
> "is in production in at least two sizeable clouds" (note that I'm not saying
> "public clouds"). Trove is the only project that has, to my knowledge, met
> that bar prior to graduation, and it's the only project that graduated since
> Havana that I can, off hand, point at as clearly successful. Heat and
> Ceilometer both graduated prior to being in production; a few cycles later,
> they're still having adoption problems and looking at large architectural
> changes. I think the added cost to OpenStack when we integrate immature or
> unstable projects is significant enough at this point to justify a more
> defensive posture.
> 
> FWIW, Ironic currently doesn't meet that bar either - it's in production in
> only one public cloud. I'm not aware of large private installations yet,
> though I suspect there are some large private deployments being spun up
> right now, planning to hit production with the Juno release.

We have some hard data from the user survey presented at the Juno summit,
with respectively 26 & 53 production deployments of Heat and Ceilometer
reported.

There's no cross-referencing of deployment size with services in production
in those data presented, though it may be possible to mine that out of the
raw survey responses.

Cheers,
Eoghan



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