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FYI- I'm totally in favor of eviction. But...

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:42 AM Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:

>
> I'm interested in hearing other reasons that we should keep these
> sorts of projects, though. I'm not yet ready to propose the change
> to the policy myself.


...if the social consequences result in that entire team's development
staff effectively exiting OpenStack altogether? This in particular is
pertinent to myself - if Fuel is evicted from the big tent, then it's very
likely that the JavaScript SDK collaboration (which includes several
Fuel-UI developers and has _finally_ taken off) will grind to a halt.

There's a halo effect to having a project under the big tent - contributors
are already familiar with infra and procedure, and thus the barriers to
cross-project bugfixes are way lower. Perhaps (using Fuel as an example)
the "should this be in the big tent" metric is based on how many
contributors contribute _only_ to Fuel, as opposed to
Fuel-and-other-projects.

As a countersuggestion - perhaps the solution to increasing project
diversity is to reduce barriers to cross-project contributions. If the
learning curve of project-shifting was reduced (by agreeing on common web
frameworks, etc), it'd certainly make cross-project bug fixes way easier.

Michael
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