Open Stack

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:14:32 +0000 (GMT)
Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> wrote:

> The conversations about additional languages in this community have
> been one our most alarmingly regressive and patronizing. They seem
> to be bred out of fear rather than hope and out of lack of faith in
> each other than in trust. We've got people who want to build stuff.
> Isn't that the important part?

I dunno, it seems fine to discuss. I'm disappointed that TC voted Golang
down on August 2, but I can see where they come from.

The problem we're grappling with on the Swift side is (in my view) mainly
that the Go reimplementation provides essential performance advantages
which manifest at a certain scale (around 100 PB with current technology).
For this reason, ignoring Hummingbird and prohibiting Go is not going to
suppress them. As the operators deploy Hummingbird in preference to the
Python implementation, the focus of the development is going to migrate,
and the end result is going to be an effective exile of a founding
project from the OpenStack.

(Even if happens, it's probably not a big deal. Just look how well Ceph
is doing, community-wise. Operators aren't crying bloody tears either,
do they?)

The conflict is that since re-writing e.g. Newtron in Go does not confer
the same performance advantage (AFAIK -- your VLANs aren't going to set
up and tear down 80 times faster), the disruption isn't worth the trouble
for the majority of OpenStack projects. This is why TC voted us down.
And the talk about the community is mostly there to heal psychologically.

So, it wasn't "regressive" or "patronizing", just business. See how Flavio
outlined specific steps in a constructive manner.

I'm quite glad that Ash wants to do something about CI. And I'm going
to look into fully supporting existing configurations. Maybe share it with
Designate and thus create something like a proto-"oslo.go.config".
Of course we need to have some code to share first.

-- Pete