Open Stack

On 06/29/2017 09:23 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:

> We are already WELL past where we can solve the problem you are describing.
> Pandora's box has been opened - we have defined ourselves as an Open community.
> Our only requirement to be official is that you behave as one of us. There is
> nothing stopping those machine learning projects from becoming official. If they
> did become official but were still bad software - what would we have solved?
>
> We have a long-time official project that currently has staffing problems. If
> someone Googles for OpenStack DBaaS and finds Trove and then looks to see that
> the contribution rate has fallen off recently they could get the impression that
> OpenStack is a bunch of dead crap.
>
> Inclusion as an Official Project in OpenStack is not an indication that anyone
> thinks the project is good quality. That's a decision we actively made. This is
> the result.

I wonder if it would be useful to have a separate orthogonal status as to "level 
of stability/usefulness/maturity/quality" to help newcomers weed out projects 
that are under TC governance but are not ready for prime time.

Chris