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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:11 AM, 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.
>

+1

What sort of code would not be "infrastructure" but would be "shared by
OpenStack projects"? Is the "infrastructure" redundant?

Doug


>
> 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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