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Here's an alternative OpenStack Core project definition:

OpenStack Core projects:
 1) provide the API and implementation for compute, storage, or network infrastructure-as-a-service
 2) may be deployed independently
 3) cooperate to provide a unified OpenStack release
 4) must be scalable from small private clouds to large public service providers



--John



On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Incubation is currently an OpenStack project status that grants a
> promising project more access to OpenStack shared resources, especially
> in the CI, release management and QA space. That status lets the
> promising project prove that it is ready to join other official
> OpenStack core projects for the next full development cycle.
> 
> In the past governance the Project Policy Board was the only decider on
> Incubation and Core inclusion. With the new governance, the Technical
> Committee is still the only decider on Incubation status and still
> proposes projects for Core inclusion, but the Board of Directors has the
> possibility to veto that Core inclusion.
> 
> This creates an awkward process where a project could go all the way
> through Incubation and be denied Core inclusion at the end of that
> process, basically wasting OpenStack resources. We need to evolve the
> Incubation process so that the question of whether a project belongs in
> "Core" is fully resolved as early as possible. And define how a project
> can enter, grow or exit the incubation process.
> 
> This also raises the question of whether "Core" should really be the
> only destination of an Incubated project. Which triggers the very
> question of what OpenStack Core actually is. For some it's the
> collection of OpenStack projects that work well and complement each
> other, for others Core should only include the IaaS pieces, for others
> they should represent the bare minimum you need to implement to be able
> to be called an "OpenStack Cloud"...
> 
> Once "Core" is defined we can evaluate the need for a category that
> would still be in "OpenStack" but not have the "Core" label on it.
> Incubation could then lead two ways.
> 
> We need to discuss all this in the next two weeks before delegates of
> the TC will join a committee with Board of Directors delegates to come
> to a final decision on this. So let the public discussion begin.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Chair, OpenStack Technical Committee
> 
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