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On 20/01/16 14:58 -0500, Jay Pipes wrote:
>On 01/20/2016 01:30 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2016-01-20 13:23:02 -0430:
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>At the Tokyo summit, we discussed OpenStack's development themes in a
>>>cross-project session. In this session a group of folks started discussing what
>>>topics the overall community could focus on as a shared effort. One of the
>>>things that was raised during this session is the need of having cycles to
>>>stabilize projects. This was brought up by Robert Collins again in a meeting[0]
>>>the TC had right after the summit and no much has been done ever since.
>>>
>>>Now, "stabilization Cycles" are easy to dream about but really hard to do and
>>>enforce. Nonetheless, they are still worth a try or, at the very least, a
>>>thought. I'll try to go through some of the issues and benefits a stabilization
>>>cycle could bring but bear in mind that the lists below are not exhaustive. In
>>>fact, I'd love for other folks to chime in and help building a case in favor or
>>>against this.
>>>
>>>Negative(?) effects
>>>===================
>>>
>>>- Project won't get new features for a period of time Economic impact on
>>>   developers(?)
>>>- It was mentioned that some folks receive bonuses for landed features
>>
>>As uncomfortable as it may be to tell another contributor "no" and
>>realize that it will have a direct financial impact on them, we
>>can't encourage a contribution model in which everyone is vying for
>>their own special patches to land in order to get paid. That destroys
>>our ability to look at the overall health of the project, and
>>objectively examine the wisdom of adding (or removing) any given
>>feature. It moves the issues we have with some vendor-specific
>>drivers out of the driver space and into all of OpenStack, turning
>>our open collaboration into competition.
>
>Amen, brother. My thoughts exactly.

Couldn't agree more! (Just to be clear, I mentioned it to be explicit and have a
somewhat objective proposal rather than dropping my opinions here and there :P).

Flavio

>-jay
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