Open Stack

Sean Dague wrote:
> [...]
> So, honestly, I'll probably remain -1 on the final integration vote, not
> because Zaqar is bad, but because I'm feeling more firmly that for
> OpenStack to not leave the small deployers behind we need to redefine
> the tightly integrated piece of OpenStack to basically the Layer 1 & 2
> parts of my diagram, and consider the rest of the layers exciting parts
> of our ecosystem that more advanced users may choose to deploy to meet
> their needs. Smaller tent, big ecosystem, easier on ramp.
> 
> I realize that largely means Zaqar would be caught up in a definition
> discussion outside of it's control, and that's kind of unfortunate, as
> Flavio and team have been doing a bang up job of late. But we need to
> stop considering "integration" as the end game of all interesting
> software in the OpenStack ecosystem, and I think it's better to have
> that conversation sooner rather than later.

I think it's pretty clear at this point that:

(1) we need to have a discussion about layers (base nucleus, optional
extra services at the very least) and the level of support we grant to
each -- the current binary approach is not working very well

(2) If we accept Zaqar next week, it's pretty clear it would not fall in
the base nucleus layer but more in an optional extra services layer,
together with at the very least Trove and Sahara

There are two ways of doing this: follow Sean's approach and -1
integration (and have zaqar apply to that "optional layer" when we
create it), or +1 integration now (and have zaqar follow whichever other
integrated projects we place in that layer when we create it).

I'm still hesitating on the best approach. I think they yield the same
end result, but the -1 approach seems to be a bit more unfair, since it
would be purely for reasons we don't (yet) apply to currently-integrated
projects...

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)