Open Stack

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Dan Prince <dprince at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> Last Thursday[0], at the TC office hours, we brainstormed a bit around
>> the idea
>> of having a tech blog. This idea came first from Joshua Harlow and it was
>> then
>> briefly discussed at the summit too.
>>
>> The idea, we have gathered, is to have a space where the community could
>> write
>> technical posts about OpenStack. The idea is not to have an aggregator
>> (that's
>> what our planet[1] is for) but a place to write original and curated
>> content.
>>
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> Why not just write article's on existing blogs, link them into planet, and
> then if they are really good promote them at a higher level?
>
> Having a separate blog that is maintained by a few seems a bit elitist to
> me.
>
> Dan
>

+1


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>> During the conversation, we argued about what kind of content would be
>> acceptable for this platform. Here are some ideas of things we could have
>> there:
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>> - Posts that are dev-oriented (e.g: new functions on an oslo lib)
>> - Posts that facilitate upstream development (e.g: My awesome dev setup)
>> - Deep dive into libvirt internals
>>
>
> What is really missing in our current infrastructure setup that really
> prevents any of the above?
>

+1


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>
>> - ideas?
>>
>> As Chris Dent pointed out on that conversation, we should avoid making
>> this
>> place a replacement for things that would otherwise go on the mailing
>> list -
>> activity reports, for example. Having dev news in this platform, we would
>> overlap with things that go already on the mailing list and, arguably, we
>> would
>> be defeating the purpose of the platform. But, there might be room for
>> both(?)
>>
>> Ultimately, we should avoid topics promoting new features in services as
>> that's what
>> superuser[2] is for.
>>
>> So, what are your thoughts about this? What kind of content would you
>> rather
>> have posted here? Do you like the idea at all?
>>
>> [0] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23op
>> enstack-tc.2017-11-23.log.html#t2017-11-23T15:01:25
>> [1] http://planet.openstack.org/
>> [2] http://superuser.openstack.org/
>>
>> Flavio
>>
>> --
>> @flaper87
>> Flavio Percoco
>>
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My .02, I would like to encourage in general we try to streamline and make
more effective what we already do versus adding more and remove excess.


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