Open Stack

Well, if the goal is to create a marketplace for openstack compatible products... meaning a place to find solutions built on and around openstack core (monetization is not my point)... then great... if the point is to aggregate ephemera then that seems like simply a directory/repository of individual code/configuration chunks that smacks more of utilities for dealing with the core in which case: blah.

Like any platform, openstack needs an easy way to demonstrate its value in an ecosystem and a repository for value adding applications would help with that.

And yes... there's an app for that.


On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn> wrote:
>> What benefits does an openstack-satellite project bring? Other than all using some openstack component, what do these projects have in common that justifies grouping them? For example, I know of many open source projects that use swift (swauth, slogging, cyberduck, all the rackspace language bindings, several iOS apps, a few dashboards), and I can't seem to see why they would benefit by being grouped into one umbrella.
> 
> That's the whole point, John... *you* know which open source projects
> use swift (because you're a contributor to Swift). I wouldn't have any
> clue what projects use Swift unless I was a contributor to OpenStack.
> There is no place to go to see the variety of projects that are being
> built to *consume* OpenStack APIs, to extend OpenStack projects, to
> implement OpenStack APIs in different languages or using different
> backends/algorithms, etc.
> 
> The point of the satellite project, as I understand the proposal, is
> to have a place for the broader community (i.e. not Python core
> project developers) to upload code and configuration snippets,
> advertise alternate implementations, and in general have a place to
> search the ecosystem of OpenStack stuff. What the could be wrong with
> that?
> 
> About 5 years ago, I built MySQL Forge (http://forge.mysql.com/) for
> similar purposes -- as a place for the MySQL project ecosystem to
> live, big or small projects, code snippets, etc. That interface is
> admittedly dated and needs work to prevent things like spam, but then
> again, so does our wiki! The point is that not everyone is a) a Python
> developer, b) cares about Python development, c) wants or needs to
> contribute at all. I think it's a good idea to have a place where
> people can go "shop the OpenStack bazaar" so to speak... :)
> 
> -jay
> 
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