[openstack-dev] [all][elections][TC] TC Candidacy

Zane Bitter zbitter at redhat.com
Tue Sep 27 16:13:40 UTC 2016


On 27/09/16 06:19, John Davidge wrote:
>> Having Stackforge as a separate Github organization and set of
>> >repositories was a maintenance nightmare due to the awkwardness of
>> >renaming projects when they "moved into OpenStack".
> There's no reason that this would need a separate github structure, just
> separate messaging and rules.

That's exactly what we have now.

This statement on your blog:

"[StackForge] was retired in October 2015, at which point all projects 
had to move into the OpenStack Big Tent or leave entirely."

is completely false. That never happened. There are still plenty of 
repos on git.openstack.org that are not part of the Big Tent. At no time 
has any project been required to join the Big Tent in order to continue 
being hosted.

Maybe you should consider reading up on the historical background to 
these changes. There are a lot of constraints that have to be met - from 
technical ones like the fact that it's not feasible to rename git repos 
when they move into or out of the official OpenStack project, to legal 
ones like how the TC has to designate projects in order to trigger 
certain rights and responsibilities in the (effectively immutable) 
Foundation by-laws. Rehashing all of the same old discussions without 
reference to these constraints is unlikely to be productive.

cheers,
Zane.



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