Open Stack

On 23/04/18 15:06, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> [This is meant to be one of (I hope) several conversation-provoking
> questions directed at prospective TC members to help the community
> understand their positions before considering how to vote in the
> ongoing election.]
> 
> Over the last year we have seen some contraction in the number of
> companies and individuals contributing to OpenStack. At the same
> time we have started seeing contributions from other companies and
> individuals. To some degree this contraction and shift in contributor
> base is a natural outcome of changes in OpenStack itself along with
> the rest of the technology industry, but as with any change it
> raises questions about how and whether we can ensure a smooth
> transition to a new steady state.
> 
> What aspects of our policies or culture make contributing to OpenStack
> more difficult than contributing to other open source projects?

Our scale.

To get a large feature merged can require get code
prioritised by 2 or 3 different teams, and merged into any number of
repositories.

To get a small feature merged on some projects can take some time as
well, purely from the amount of code that is submitted for review to
these projects.

> Which of those would you change, and how?

Well, I definitely wouldn't change our scale. What I think we need to is
start breaking down some of the gigantic mono repos we have, so that
reviewing a small feature does not need large amounts of contextual
knowledge. I think this is happening organically in some teams already
with a few teams completely plugin based and distributed (like the docs
team).

When code can be reviewed in isolation without the fear of breaking
something 2 projects away, it helps both review time, and new
contributor experience.

> Where else should we be looking for contributors?

Honestly, I don't know. The kind of work that our contributors do, does
require a certain level of equipment, and "upstream time" that makes any
serious feature development hard for a casual weekend contributor.

> Doug
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