[openstack-dev] [all] cross project communication: periodic developer newsletter?
Thierry Carrez
thierry at openstack.org
Wed May 6 09:59:04 UTC 2015
Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:53 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 10:45 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > The issue is, who can write such content ? It is a full-time job to
> > produce authored content, you can't just copy (or link to) content
> > produced elsewhere. It takes a very special kind of individual to write
> > such content: the person has to be highly technical, able to tackle any
> > topic, and totally connected with the OpenStack development community.
> > That person has to be cross-project and ideally have already-built
> > legitimacy.
>
> Here, you're being overly restrictive. Lwn.net isn't staffed by top
> level kernel maintainers (although it does solicit the occasional
> article from them). It's staffed by people who gained credibility via
> their insightful reporting rather than by their contributions. I see no
> reason why the same model wouldn't work for OpenStack.
>
> ++. I have a hunch that like many things (in OpenStack) if you make a
> space for people to step up, they will.
I guess being burnt trying to set that up in the past makes me overly
pessimistic. Let's see... Anyone interested in producing that kind of
"OpenStack Developer Community Digest" ?
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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