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Hi!

For those who do not know, DriverLog is a community registry of 3rd-party
drivers for OpenStack hosted together with Stackalytics [1]. The project
started 4 years ago and by now contains information about 220 drivers. The
data from DriverLog is also consumed by official Marketplace [2].

Here I would like to discuss directions for DriverLog and 3rd-party driver
registry as general.

1) Being a single community-wide registry was good initially, it allowed to
quickly collect description for most of drivers in a single place. But in a
long term this approach stopped working - not many projects remember to
update the information stored in some random place, right?

Mike already pointed to this problem a year ago [3] and the idea was to
move driver list to projects (and thus move responsibility to them too) and
have an aggregated list of drivers produced by infra. Do we have any
progress in this direction? Is it a time to start deprecation of DriverLog
and consider transition during Rocky release?

2) As a project with 4 years history DriverLog's list only increased over
the time with quite few removals. Now it still has drivers with the latest
version Liberty or drivers for non-maintained projects (e.g. Fuel). While
it maybe makes sense to keep all of them for operators who run older
versions, it may produce a feeling that the majority of drivers are old.
One of solutions for this is to show by default drivers for active releases
only (Pike and ahead). If done this will apply to both DriverLog and
Marketplace.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
I

[1] http://stackalytics.com/report/driverlog
[2] https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/drivers/
[3]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-January/110151.html
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