[tc] constellations

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Mar 21 13:20:54 UTC 2019


I thought we had already agreed at the TC level that we would drop this
and leave it up to the community if they wanted to build it.

Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> writes:

> Hi everyone:
>
> It seems like this discussion has stalled out for around 2 weeks.
>
> Do we want to close this effort?
>
> Thanks,
> Mohammed
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:29 PM Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I'd like to follow up on this effort, it's stalled for a while and
>> there hasn't been
>> much feedback from the mailing list.
>>
>> Perhaps any community members would like to chime in on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mohammed
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:08 PM Lance Bragstad <lbragstad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3/11/19 10:44 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> > > Mohammed Naser wrote:
>> > >> Hi everyone.
>> > >>
>> > >> For quite sometime, there has been work on an effort of moving forward
>> > >> with building 'constellations' however this effort has stalled out for
>> > >> a few months since.  It looks like we've tried a few times to get this
>> > >> document done
>> > >>
>> > >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/180112/ [3y9m ago, creating compute
>> > >> starter kit, by sdague]
>> > >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/565466/ [7m ago, draft for scientific
>> > >> computing but in `governance`]
>> > >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/586212/3 [6m ago, draft for compute
>> > >> starter constillation, by dims]
>> > >>
>> > >> Do we want to continue this effort (do we see value in it right now)?
>> > >> Does the community find it a useful document to publish and does
>> > >> anyone feel like they can pick it up?
>> > >
>> > > There doesn't seem to be much momentum around that. Here is a bit more
>> > > context to kickstart the discussion:
>> > >
>> > > Here is the part of the "2019 TC vision" that describes constellations:
>> > >
>> > > https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20170404-vision-2019.html#navigating-with-constellations
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > As I see it, there were two key goals in there. First is to get the TC
>> > > (and contributors in general) to wear more of a product manager hat
>> > > and be more involved in defining common groups of OpenStack components
>> > > matching a use case. The other is to expose those constructs more
>> > > widely than just on the marketing website -- make them first-level
>> > > objects that users interact with (in particular in documentation).
>> >
>> > From what I vaguely remember about these conversations in the past,
>> > wasn't testing and validation of each constellation one of the harder
>> > parts to figure out?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Mohammed Naser — vexxhost
> -----------------------------------------------------
> D. 514-316-8872
> D. 800-910-1726 ext. 200
> E. mnaser at vexxhost.com
> W. http://vexxhost.com
>

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Doug



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