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Excerpts from Mike Perez's message of 2016-02-17 03:21:51 -0800:
> On 02/16/2016 11:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > So I think the project team is doing everything we've asked.  We
> > changed our policies around new projects to emphasize the social
> > aspects of projects, and community interactions. Telling a bunch
> > of folks that they "are not OpenStack" even though they follow those
> > policies is rather distressing.  I think we should be looking for
> > ways to say "yes" to new projects, rather than "no."
> 
> My disagreements with accepting Poppy has been around testing, so let me
> reiterate what I've already said in this thread.
> 
> The governance currently states that under Open Development "The project 
> has core reviewers and adopts a test-driven gate in the OpenStack 
> infrastructure for changes" [1].
> 
> If we don't have a solution like OpenCDN, Poppy has to adopt a reference
> implementation that is a commercial entity, and infra has to also be 
> dependent on it. I get Infra is already dependent on public cloud 
> donations, but if we start opening the door to allow projects to bring 
> in those commercial dependencies, that's not good.

Only Poppy's test suite would rely on that, though, right? And other
projects can choose whether to co-gate with Poppy or not. So I don't see
how this limitation has an effect on anyone other than the Poppy team.

Doug

> 
> [1] - 
> http://governance.openstack.org/reference/new-projects-requirements.html
>