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On 12:24 May 24, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Morgan Fainberg wrote:
> >[...]  If we are accepting golang, I want it to be clearly
> >documented that the expectation is it is used exclusively where there is
> >a demonstrable case (such as with swift) and not a carte blanche to use
> >it wherever-you-please.
> >
> >I want this to be a social contract looked at and enforced by the
> >community, not special permissions that are granted by the TC (I don't
> >want the TC to need to step in an approve every single use case of
> >golang, or javascript ...). It's bottlenecking back to the TC for
> >special permissions or inclusion (see reasons for the dissolution of the
> >"integrated release").
> >
> >This isn't strictly an all or nothing case, this is a "how would we
> >enforce this?" type deal. Lean on infra to enforce that only projects
> >with the golang-is-ok-here tag are allowed to use it? I don't want
> >people to write their APIs in javascript (and node.js) nor in golang. I
> >would like to see most of the work continue with python as the primary
> >language. I just think it's unreasonable to lock tools behind a gate
> >that is stronger than the social / community contract (and outlined in
> >the resolution including X language).
> 
> +1
> 
> I'd prefer if we didn't have to special-case anyone, and we could come up
> with general rules that every OpenStack project follows. Any other solution
> is an administrative nightmare and a source of tension between projects (why
> are they special and not me).

I'm in agreement that I don't want to see the TC enforcing this. In fact as
Thierry has said, lets not special case anyone.

As soon as a special case is accepted, as nortoriously happens people are going
to go in a corner and rewrite things in Go. They will be upset later for not
communicating well on their intentions upfront, and the TC or a few strongly
opinionated folks in the community are going to be made the bad people just
about every time.

Community enforcing or not, I predict this to get out of hand and it's going to
create more community divide regardless.

-- 
Mike Perez