DR options with openstack

Tony Pearce tony.pearce at cinglevue.com
Sat Jan 18 06:48:36 UTC 2020


So if I understand correctly, this says to me that Openstack is never
intended to be consumed by end users.

Is this correct?

Regards

On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, 11:28 Mohammed Naser, <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:42 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-01-17 21:24:36 +0530 (+0530), Adam Peacock wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Also, we need to be clear not everyone leans towards being a
> > > developer or even *wants* to go in that direction when using
> > > OpenStack. In fact, most don't and if there is that expectation by
> > > those entrenched with the OpenStack product, the OpenStack option
> > > gets dropped in favor of something else. It's developer-friendly
> > > but we need to be mega-mega-careful, as a community, to ensure
> > > development isn't the baseline or assumption for adequate support
> > > or to get questions answered. Especially since we've converged our
> > > communication channels.
> > [...]
> >
> > Most users probably won't become developers on OpenStack, but some
> > will, and I believe its long-term survival depends on that so we
> > should do everything we can to encourage it. Users may also
> > contribute in a variety of other ways like bug reporting and triage,
> > outreach, revising or translating documentation, and so on.
> >
> > OpenStack isn't a "product," it's a community software collaboration
> > on which many companies have built products (either by running it as
> > a service or selling support for it). Treating the community the way
> > you might treat a paid vendor is where all of this goes to a bad
> > place very quickly.
>
> We've probably strayed a bit far away from the original topic, but I
> echo this thought very much.
>
> OpenStack is a project.  $your_favorite_vendor's OpenStack is a
> product.  It's important for us to keep that distinction for the success
> of both the project and vendors IMHO.
>
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>
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