Open Stack

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:11:39AM -0800, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> > On 2016-01-31 19:03:24 -0800 (-0800), cacook at quantum-sci.com wrote:
> >> The description says "Infrastructure support for the OpenStack
> >> project" and that's the issue I'm dealing with, so I thought I'd
> >> subscribed to precisely the right list. Apparently this is a
> >> different infrastructure though.
> >
> > Yep, "infrastructure" is too vague of a term to be easily
> > disambiguated in a one-line mailing list description. I'd love if
> > someone could come up with a less confusing description which
> > indicates that this is where we discuss the servers and services
> > which allow our project's developers and extended community to
> > productively communicate and work on making OpenStack (or I can just
> > use my wording from this sentence if nobody has a better idea).
> 
> As you all know, I spend a lot of time at conferences trying to
> clearly explain what we do. So I've put a great deal of thought into
> this over the years. My much-too-verbose in person line is:
> 
> "We work on the infrastructure for the OpenStack project, so the
> Continuous Integration system, Etherpad, ELK stack, IRC bots, i18n
> systems and everything else that OpenStack project contributors
> interact with on a daily basis to develop OpenStack."
> 
> After I saw this email, I had 15 hours on a plane to think about how
> to make this more concise for our mailing list, so my proposal is
> something along the lines of:
> 
> "Development and maintenance of the project infrastructure and tooling
> used by contributors to develop OpenStack."
> 
+1, how I usually explain openstack-infra.

> -- 
> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
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