[openstack-dev] Thoughts on OpenStack Layers and a Big Tent model

Adam Lawson alawson at aqorn.com
Fri Sep 19 17:02:17 UTC 2014


Can someone do a small little Visio or other visual to explain what's being
proposed here? My head sported a small crack at around the 5-6th page...

; ) But seriously, I couldn't understand the proposal. Maybe I'm not the
audience which is fine, just saying, the words got in the way. Sounds like
a song!


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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:46 AM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
>> > Great writeup. I think there are some great concrete suggestions here.
>> >
>> > A couple more:
>> >
>> > 1. I think we need a better name for Layer #1 that actually represents
>> what the goal of it is: Infrastructure Services?
>> > 2. We need to be be open to having other Layer #1s within the
>> community. We should allow for similar collaborations and group focus to
>> grow up as well. Storage Services? Platform Services? Computation Services?
>>
>> I think that would nullify most of the benefits of Monty's proposal. If
>> we keep on blessing "themes" or special groups, we'll soon be back at
>> step 0, with projects banging on the TC door to become special, and
>> companies not allocating resources to anything that's not special.
>>
>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>>
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>
> ​Great stuff, mixed on point 2 raised by Vish but honestly I think that's
> something that could evolve over time, but I looked at that differently as
> in Cinder, SWIFT and some day Manilla live under a Storage Services
> umbrella, and ideally at some point there's some convergence there.
>
> Anyway, I don't want to start a rat-hole on that, it's kind of irrelevant
> right now.  Bottom line is I think the direction and initial ideas in
> Monty's post are what a lot of us have been thinking about and looking for.
>  I'm in!!​
>
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