Open Stack

On 06/29/2017 02:35 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Sean McGinnis wrote:
>>>
>>> The central issue being discussed here is an issue of external
>>> perception. It's hard for newcomers to the OpenStack world to see what
>>> is a part of OpenStack and what's not. If you google "openstack machine
>>> learning", the first hits are Cognitive and Meteos, and it's impossible
>>> to tell that those are actually not OpenStack projects. One of those has
>>> been dead for 2 years -- having people think that those are official
>>> projects hurts all the OpenStack projects, by lowering expectations
>>> around what that means, in terms of quality, maintenance, or community.
>>
>> Maybe this is a bit of a tangent from the overall discussion, but
>> since a lot of confusion, and bad perception, can stem from dead
>> projects - as a first small step, could we move dead projects
>> out of openstack/* into closedstack/* and move or mark their wiki
>> to indicate it is just for legacy reference?
> 
> It's difficult to do. From a governance perspective, the "hosted" (or
> "unofficial") space has no rules, so it's nobody's job (and right) to
> clean things up. From a technical perspective, it's painful due to
> Gerrit requiring restarts for every rename.
> 
> It's doable -- we'd have to create some governance for the "hosted"
> space (creating a bit more confusion, since this was previously defined
> as the "ungoverned" space), and add more to the infra team pile of work.
> 
> Anyway, that's part of "addressing the confusion at the edges" option.
> 

Agree, it is doable - but is also work.

I also continue to challenge the assertion. There are dead projects in 
there for sure- but there are a LOT of non-dead live projects. It's not 
like we have 6 live and 6 dead projects. The overwhelming majority of 
the projects are not dead.