Open Stack

Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2016-08-02 11:16:29 +0100:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > Making no judgments about the particular exemplars here, I would just
> > like to point out that one reason why projects exist with very little
> > diversity is that they "just work".  Usually people get involved when
> > something doesn't work or they need something changed to work for them.
> > However, people do have a high tolerance for "works well enough"
> > meaning that a project can be functional, widely used and not
> > attracting diverse contributors.  A case in point for this type of
> > project in the non-openstack world would be openssl but there are many
> > others.
> 
> In a somewhat related point, the kinds of metrics we use in OpenStack to
> evaluate project health tend to have the unintended consequence of
> requiring the projects to always be growing and changing (i.e. churning)
> rather than trending towards stability and maturity.
> 
> I'd like to think that we can have some projects that can be called
> "done".
> 
> So we need to consider the side effects of the measurements we're
> taking and not let the letter of the new laws kill the spirit.
> 
> Yours in cliches,

Sure. I think I'd want to set things up to trigger a review, and not an
automatic "expulsion". The TC at the time would be able to recognize a
stable project and take into account whether the level of activity is
appropriate for the maturity and nature of the project.

Doug