[openstack-dev] Some Oslo changes

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Thu May 30 17:40:15 UTC 2013


Congrats to Flavio Percoco and Zhongyue Luo!!!

-- dims

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey
>
> We had some good discussions at the design summit which have evolved our
> thinking around Oslo a little bit. I thought I'd try and summarize
> changes which have happened since then.
>
> Firstly, I've tried to update the wiki page to better explain what Oslo
> is all about:
>
>   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo
>
> One of the things the wiki page talks about is how oslo-core is a group
> of "generalist reviewers" but that each Oslo API should also have a
> specialist maintainer. I've added a list of API maintainers to the
> oslo-incubator repo and explained what their responsibilities are:
>
>   https://github.com/openstack/oslo-incubator/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
>
> We've also now started to talk about Oslo as a "program" rather than a
> "project" (credit to Monty for the term). Somewhat related to that,
> we've now included the pbr and hacking libraries in Oslo. The idea is
> that libraries don't need to be called "oslo.foo" to be part of Oslo.
> Some libraries may be more suitable for adoption outside of OpenStack so
> don't want to be constrained by the "Oslo brand".
>
> The actual practical impact of pbr and hacking being a part of Oslo
> right now is that oslo-core have +2 permissions on these projects (while
> Monty and Joe/Sean remain as the "specialist maintainers" for pbr and
> hacking respectively) and we're committed to maintaining a reasonable
> level of API compatibility. We may evolve this in future into having all
> projects aligned to the same versioning scheme, same release schedule
> and same API compat commitment, but it's early days yet.
>
> We've also set up a slot to hold project meetings and agreed we'd only
> hold the meeting when someone has a topic they want to discuss:
>
>   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Oslo
>
> The next meeting will be on Friday, May 7th to sync up on Oslo messaging
> progress:
>
>   https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo/Messaging
>
> Finally, I'm really excited that we've added Flavio Percoco and Zhongyue
> Luo. Many thanks to them for their awesome work on Oslo!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
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