[openstack-dev] Program description for Oslo

Jonathan Bryce jbryce at jbryce.com
Tue Jul 9 12:41:25 UTC 2013


Any reason for not just calling it "OpenStack Commons"?

Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:

>Hey
>
>The mission statement is what we've been using for a while. The
>"official title" is new.
>
>  Official Title: OpenStack Common Libraries
>  PTL: Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
>  Mission Statement:
>    To produce a set of python libraries containing infrastructure code 
>    shared by OpenStack projects. The APIs provided by these libraries
>    should be high quality, stable, consistent and generally applicable.
>
>I did consider explicitly mentioning technical debt with something like:
>
>  Mission Statement:
>    To tackle copy-and-paste technical debt in OpenStack by producing a
>    set of python libraries containing infrastructure code shared by
>    OpenStack projects. The APIs provided by these libraries should be
>    high quality, stable, consistent and generally applicable.
>
>But for wholly new code, that sounds like you need to introduce
>copy-and-paste technical debt before it can be considered in scope for
>Oslo :)
>
>Cheers,
>Mark.
>
>
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