[OpenStack-Infra] list description

Elizabeth K. Joseph lyz at princessleia.com
Mon Feb 8 21:18:55 UTC 2016


On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2016-02-08 11:11:39 -0800 (-0800), Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> [...]
>> "Development and maintenance of the project infrastructure and tooling
>> used by contributors to develop OpenStack."
>
> I'm cool going with that as a new list description, though I'm not
> entirely convinced that newcomers skimming quickly looking for a
> place to get help with general OpenStack problems won't still
> confuse "the project infrastructure" with "the bits you're trying to
> install to run your OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure" since the
> word "infrastructure" is thrown around in so many contexts now it's
> essentially a meaningless industry fluff term. I guess what I was
> looking for was a non-circular definition for our particular use of
> "infrastructure" but that might just be expecting too much.

Short of changing the name of the team itself (nooo) I'm not sure we
will ever get away with people not understanding at a glance :)

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2



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