Open Stack

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016, at 12:58 PM, John Davidge wrote:
> Yes, that's a part of what I'm saying. After writing my first reply I
> decided there wasn't much point talking about the problem without
> proposing a solution, so I wrote one[2]. Essentially it boils down to:
> 
> * Abolish The Big Tent
> * Define OpenStack as its core components
> * Create a new place for complimentary projects to live
> * Bring back Stackforge
> 
> The link[2] below goes into a lot more detail, and I'd love to hear
> feedback from all interested parties.
> 
> >My vote is definitely for something #2-like, as I've said before and on
> >the review, I believe OpenStack should be a "cloud toolkit" composed of
> >well-scoped and limited services in the vein of the UNIX model of do one
> >thing and do it well. I believe that vendors and cloud providers should
> >be able to choose services and tools from this OpenStack cloud toolkit
> >to build clouds, cloud products, and products that utilize OpenStack
> >service APIs to please customers.
> 
> So it seems we both agree that the current definition doesn't fit, even
> if
> we don’t agree on the solution :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/357260
> [2]
> https://johndavidge.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/mr-openstack-tear-down-this-te
> nt/

FWIW stackforge didn't go away. We just stopped using a separate Gerrit
prefix for those projects. You do not have to be part of the big tent to
be hosted on review.openstack.org. See
http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/stackforge.html

Clark