[openstack-dev] [all][tc] Moving away from "big tent" terminology

Kirill Zaitsev k.zaitsev at me.com
Thu Jun 15 16:35:42 UTC 2017


Not touching the separate gerrit topic, but I genuinely like the "community" name. In my opinion it very well covers the "projects not governed by TC" definition.

Regards, Kirill

> Le 15 июня 2017 г. à 18:28, Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM, gordon chung <gord at live.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 15/06/17 10:57 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm still unconvinced a term is needed for this. Can't we just have
>>>>> "OpenStack Projects" (those under TC governance) and "everything
>>>>> else?" Why must the existence of any term require a term for its
>>>>> opposite?
>>> Well, we tried that for 2.5 years now, and people are still confused
>>> about which projects are an Openstack project and what are not. The
>>> confusion led to the perception that everything under openstack/ is an
>>> openstack project. It led to the perception that "big tent" means
>>> "anything goes in" or "flea market".
>> 
>> regardless of terminology, i'm not entirely certain what everyone's
>> definition of an openstack project and <whatever label you want to call
>> it> project is. additionally, what the purpose of this categorization is?
> 
> The purpose (my 2 cents) is to highlight what projects are under
> governance and those that are not.
> 
> Maybe we should call those not under governance as "community"
> projects, aggregate these under say community.openstack.org also run a
> second gerrit instance (community-git.openstack.org ?) so the
> separation is clear and distinct.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dims
> 
>> 
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>> gord
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