Open Stack

Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2016-09-09 14:30:29 -0400:
>>>  > To me, this statement
>>>> about One OpenStack is about emphasizing those commonalities and
>>>> working together to increase them, with the combined goals of
>>>> improving the user and operator experience of using OpenStack and
>>>> improving our own experience of making it.
>>>
>>> +1000 to the above, and I don't believe anything about my stance that 
>>> OpenStack should be a cloud toolkit goes against that.
>>>
>>> The wording/philosophy that I disagree with is the "one product" thing :)
>>
>> Tomato, tomato.
>>
>> We're all, I think, looking at this "One OpenStack" principle from
>> different perspectives.  You say "a toolkit". I say "a project".
>> Thierry said "a product". The important word in all of those phrases
>> is "a" -- as in singular.
> 
> FWIW I agree with Jay that the wording "a product" is definitely
> outdated and does not represent the current reality. "Product"
> presupposes a level of integration that we never achieved, and which is,
> in my opinion, not desirable at this stage. I think that saying "a
> framework" would be more accurate today. Something like "OpenStack is
> one community with one common mission, producing one framework of
> collaborating components" would capture my thinking.

I just pushed a new revision that incorporates many suggested wording
changes, including this one.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)