[openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Dev] [Cinder] Open Source and community working together

Christopher Yeoh cbkyeoh at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 01:55:04 UTC 2014


On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 16:30:10 -0700
John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com> wrote:
> I don't want to go into detail about who, what, where etc at this
> point.  I instead, I want to point out that in my opinion this is no
> way to operate in an Open Source community.  Collaboration is one
> thing, but ambushing other peoples work is entirely unacceptable in
> my opinion.  OpenStack provides a plethora of ways to participate and
> voice your opinion, whether it be this mailing list, the IRC channels
> which are monitored daily and also host a published weekly meeting
> for most projects.  Of course when in doubt you're welcome to send me
> an email at any time with questions or concerns that you have about a
> patch.  In any case however the proper way to address concerns about
> a submitted patch is to provide a review for that patch.

+1 to this. The canonical place for a discussion about a patch
is on the review itself. And if someone thinks a mailing list
discussion is also required, then link to it from a review for that
patch because with the volume of email that openstack-dev gets it is
easy to accidentally miss stuff.

Chris



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