Open Stack

On 04/24/2015 06:28 PM, David Medberry wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Chris Dent <chdent at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> What can and should the TC at large, and you specifically, do to ensure
>> quality improves for the developers, end-users and operators of
>> OpenStack as a full system, both as a project being developed and a
>> product being used?
> 
> 
> Hello Chris et al,
> 
> OpenStack quality will improve for the operators with a strong operator
> voice that helps focus developers and the overall technical focus on usage.
> OpenStack quality improves for developers in other ways: by hearing from
> end users and operators they can in part anticipate (or respond more
> quickly) to issues that will otherwise become truly raging hotspots (crises
> if you will.)
> 
> The other way to directly improve quality for OpenStack Devs is to improve
> test coverage and gate checks on more "production-like" systems. As an
> operator and advocate, I can persuade or motivate other operators to offer
> up resources (people as well as systems) to aid in this area of improvement.
> 
> These are indeed new times with operators playing a very critical role in
> OpenStack.

As a follow up to this thought - we _may_ be in a place over the next
cycle where Infra would be in a position to accept systems from
operators or others. Up until now we've only been in a position really
to deal with public clouds - but we're taking a stab at something new
and if it works out, it should open the door to taking advantage of
offers like this - which I agree will be a good thing for the project.