Open Stack

It seems we have two target audiences here. Developers who work on
OpenStack and developers who write apps to use it. In the long run I think
we need to optimize for both of these groups.

If we want developers to write applications to use OpenStack in python we
likely need a "common" python SDK.

Note, I'm not a fan of the term client because it's not the common language
for this group of developers.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:26 AM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:

> >> Keeping them separate is awesome for *us* but really, really, really
> >> sucks for users trying to use the system.
> >
> > I agree. Keeping them separate trades user usability for developer
> > usability, I think user usability is a better thing to strive for.
>
> I don't understand how multiple independent code bases with a lot of
> overlapping code/logic is a win for developers. The more we can move to
> single shared code the easier code comprehension and maintenance
> becomes. From a software engineering perspective the amount of
> duplicated code/logic in OpenStack is worrisome. Iterating towards
> common code seems like a huge developer win as well as greatly enhancing
> robustness in the process.
>
> --
> John
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