[openstack-dev] OpenStack moving both too fast and too slow at the same time

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu May 4 16:05:38 UTC 2017


On 05/04/2017 10:57 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Drew Fisher's message of 2017-05-03 14:00:53 -0600:
>> These come up time and time again
>> How is the TC working with the dev teams to address these critical issues?
>>
>> I asked this because on page 18 is this comment:
>>
>> "Most large customers move slowly and thus are running older versions,
>> which are EOL upstream sometimes before they even deploy them."
>>
>> This is exactly what we're seeing with some of our customers and I
>> wanted to ask the TC about it.
>
> The contributors to OpenStack are not a free labor pool for the
> consumers of the project.

1000 times THIS.

You generally get out of the open source projects what you put into them 
-- either time, money, or both.

Best,
-jay



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