[openstack-dev] [tc] supporting Go

Shinobu Kinjo shinobu.kj at gmail.com
Wed May 4 10:32:48 UTC 2016


- Could we kindly stop discussing radosgw at this moment?
+ Could we kindly stop discussing any particular application at this moment?

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Shinobu Kinjo <shinobu.kj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could we kindly stop discussing radosgw at this moment?
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>>
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