[openstack-dev] [tc] persistently single-vendor projects

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Thu Aug 4 08:22:22 UTC 2016


On 08/01/2016 09:39 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> But if a project is persistently single-vendor after some time and
> nobody seems interested to join it, the technical value of that project
> being "in" OpenStack rather than a separate project in the OpenStack
> ecosystem of projects is limited. It's limited for OpenStack (why
> provide resources to support a project that is obviously only beneficial
> to one organization ?), and it's limited to the organization itself (why
> go through the OpenStack-specific open processes when you could shortcut
> it with internal tools and meetings ? why accept the oversight of the
> Technical Committee ?).

A project can still be useful for everyone with a single vendor
contributing to it, even after a long period of existence. IMO that's
not the issue we're trying to solve.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)




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