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Excerpts from Graham Hayes's message of 2017-12-07 17:08:55 +0000:
> 
> On 06/12/17 23:33, James E. Blair wrote:
> > Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> writes:
> > 
> >> The expansion of the Foundation was talked about at the summit in
> >> Sydney, but having something happen this quickly was a bit of a
> >> surprise, leading to some [questions in
> >> IRC](http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2017-12-05.log.html#t2017-12-05T14:11:33)
> >> today. Jonathan Bryce showed up to help answer them.
> > 
> > I'd like to address a misconception in that IRC log:
> > 
> > 2017-12-05T14:20:56  <dhellmann> it does not take long to create a repo on our infrastructure
> > 2017-12-05T14:21:14  <dhellmann> though I guess without the name flattening, it would have been an "openstack" repository
> > 
> > While there's still some work to be done on flattening the namespace for
> > existing repos, I think it would be quite straightforward to create a
> > repository for a non-openstack project in gerrit with no prefix (or, of
> > course, a different prefix).  I don't think that would have been an
> > obstacle.
> > 
> > And regarding this:
> > 
> > 2017-12-05T15:05:30  <cmurphy> i'm not sure how much of infra's ci they could make use of given https://github.com/kata-containers/tests
> > 
> > I don't see an obstacle to using Zuul right now either -- even before
> > they have tests.
> 
> It is worth remembering that this is a completely separate project to
> OpenStack, with its own governance. They are free not to use our tooling
> (and considering a lot of containers work is on github, they may never
> use it).
> 

It's worth noting that while that precludes Gerrit, it does not preclude
Zuul, which has a GitHub driver, though we're still not sure if it scales
as well as Gerrit.