[openstack-dev] OS or os are not acronyms for OpenStack

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 17:49:40 UTC 2014


On 08/15/2014 01:28 PM, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote on 08/15/2014 01:08:44 PM:
> 
>> ...
>> I think you hit the nail on the head here, Russell, "it's fine in the
>> right context".
>>
>> The definition of the right context however is somewhat elusive. I have
>> chosen (it is my own fault) to place myself in the area where the folks
>> I deal with struggle with understanding context. The newcomers to the
>> third party space and folks creating stackforge repos don't have the
>> benefit of the understanding that core reviewers have (would I be
>> accurate in saying that it is mostly nova reviewers who have responded
>> to my initial post thus far?).
> 
> I suffered from an instance of this confusion myself when I was just
> getting started,
> and have seen colleagues get confused too.  I suspect this problem hits
> many
> newcomers.

but surely when it comes to learning OpenStack itself, the OpenStack
community, dev processes, tools, etc .... this has got to be extremely
far down the list of barriers to entry.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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