[User-committee] Fwd: [openstack-dev] Discussing Amazon API compatibility [Nova][Swift]

Ryan Lane rlane at wikimedia.org
Wed Jul 31 07:41:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>wrote:

> On Mon 29 Jul 2013 05:23:47 PM PDT, Joshua McKenty wrote:
> > If we ever have users who feel like they have to "sign the CLA and
> > submit a patch", then we've failed to establish the type of community
> > that we've been going for.
>
> We should avoid generalizing. This is the first time I hear of a user
> pointing at a problem and that such user is directly asked to submit a
> patch: there are other and much simpler ways to respond to user requests
> from asking to file a bug report or start a discussion on a mailing
> list. Pointing users to the CLA is one possible outcome of a much
> lengthier discussion that I hope happens before the 'go ahead and code
> it yourself'.
>
>
I follow the lists and have also not noticed this.

Ask is also a great place for things like this. Just today I got rights to
modify tags in ask to mark questions as feature-request related items to
more easily track things.

- Ryan
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