[Openstack] How OpenStack projects codenames are chosen?

Andriy Yurchuk ayurchuk at minuteware.net
Sat Jan 18 09:00:14 UTC 2014


Hi!
I'm not working on a new project, unfortunately :) Was asking just out of curiosity.
Thanks!

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Regards,
Andriy Yurchuk


On Jan 18, 2014, at 2:46 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:

> On 01/17/2014 01:08 PM, Andriy Yurchuk wrote:
>> I'm wondering what is the process of choosing a codename for an
>> OpenStack project (I mean Nova, Glance etc.)? Is there a
>> public/internal voting held or is it a decision of a project lead?
> 
> There is not a very "formal" process for those names. Usually it's the
> development team that makes a proposal for a codename, the proposed name
> is run by the OpenStack Foundation for a very superficial check to
> exclude the most obvious trademark issues and if none are found, the
> name gets baked into a git repository, gerrit, etc.
> 
> Are you thinking of proposing a new project? Make sure you're familiar
> with the governance pages on the wiki, like:
> 
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/NewProjects
> 
> /stef
> 
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