Open Stack

+hellyeah

On Mar 1, 2014 7:45 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/01/2014 03:30 PM, John Griffith wrote: 
> > Hey, 
> > 
> > I just wanted to send out a quick note on a topic that came up recently. 
> >   Unfortunately the folks that I'd like to read this most; don't 
> > participate on the ML typically, but I'd at least like to raise some 
> > community awareness. 
> > 
> > We all know OpenStack is growing at a rapid pace and has a lot of 
> > promise, so much so that there's an enormous field of vendors and OS 
> > distributions that are focusing a lot of effort and marketing on the 
> > project. 
> > 
> > Something that came up recently in the Cinder project is that one of the 
> > backend device vendors wasn't happy with a feature that somebody was 
> > working on and contributed a patch for.  Instead of providing a 
> > meaningful review and suggesting alternatives to the patch they set up 
> > meetings with other vendors leaving the active members of the community 
> > out and picked things apart in their own format out of the public view. 
> >   Nobody from the core Cinder team was involved in these discussions or 
> > meetings (at least that I've been made aware of). 
> > 
> > I don't want to go into detail about who, what, where etc at this point. 
> >   I instead, I want to point out that in my opinion this is no way to 
> > operate in an Open Source community.  Collaboration is one thing, but 
> > ambushing other peoples work is entirely unacceptable in my opinion. 
> >   OpenStack provides a plethora of ways to participate and voice your 
> > opinion, whether it be this mailing list, the IRC channels which are 
> > monitored daily and also host a published weekly meeting for most 
> > projects.  Of course when in doubt you're welcome to send me an email at 
> > any time with questions or concerns that you have about a patch.  In any 
> > case however the proper way to address concerns about a submitted patch 
> > is to provide a review for that patch. 
> > 
> > Everybody has a voice and the ability to participate, and the most 
> > effective way to do that is by thorough, timely and constructive code 
> > reviews.. 
> > 
> > I'd also like to point out that while a number of companies and vendors 
> > have fancy taglines like "The Leaders of OpenStack", they're not. 
> >   OpenStack is a community effort, as of right now there is no company 
> > that leads or runs OpenStack.  If you have issues or concerns on the 
> > development side you need to take those up with the development 
> > community, not vendor xyz. 
>
> I have nothing to add except for a hearty HELL YES. 
>
> Monty 
>
>
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