[openstack-dev] [all] cross project communication: periodic developer newsletter?

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Wed May 6 09:59:04 UTC 2015


Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:53 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
>     On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 10:45 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>     > The issue is, who can write such content ? It is a full-time job to
>     > produce authored content, you can't just copy (or link to) content
>     > produced elsewhere. It takes a very special kind of individual to write
>     > such content: the person has to be highly technical, able to tackle any
>     > topic, and totally connected with the OpenStack development community.
>     > That person has to be cross-project and ideally have already-built
>     > legitimacy.
> 
>     Here, you're being overly restrictive.  Lwn.net isn't staffed by top
>     level kernel maintainers (although it does solicit the occasional
>     article from them).  It's staffed by people who gained credibility via
>     their insightful reporting rather than by their contributions.  I see no
>     reason why the same model wouldn't work for OpenStack.
> 
> ++.  I have a hunch that like many things (in OpenStack) if you make a
> space for people to step up,  they will.

I guess being burnt trying to set that up in the past makes me overly
pessimistic. Let's see... Anyone interested in producing that kind of
"OpenStack Developer Community Digest" ?

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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