Open Stack

Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> RadosGW has been excluded from joining the OpenStack community in part due to its use of c++.

I'm not sure I'd use the word "excluded" since RadosGW was never 
actually proposed. Maybe our past Python-centricity discouraged them to 
apply, but that's conjecture.

> Now that we're talking about alternate languages, that may be on the table now?

It's been a possibility for the last 8 months.

That said, my personal view is that we should accept additional 
languages when the current set of accepted languages is suboptimal for 
something we want to write or create. A technical benefit to outweigh 
the community fragmentation and increase in infrastructure tasks that 
result from adding that language.

I'm less convinced that we should add a language for the sole benefit of 
being able to absorb an existing project into OpenStack which happens to 
be written in a specific language. Especially if the then-supported set 
of languages could provide the same technical benefits.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)