Open Stack

Sean McGinnis wrote:
> [...]
> Since these are now owned by an official SIG, we can move this content
> back under the openstack/ namespace. That should help increase
> visibility somewhat, and make things look a little more official. It
> will also allow contributors to tooling to get recognition for
> contributing to an import part of the OpenStack ecosystem.
> 
> I do think it's can be a little more difficult to find things spread out
> over several repos though. For simplicity with finding tooling, as well
> as watching for reviews and helping with overall maintenance, I would
> like to move all of these under a common openstack/osops. Under that
> repo, we can then have a folder structure with tools/logging,
> tools/monitoring, etc.

Also the original setup[1] called for moving things from one repo to 
another as they get more mature, which loses history. So I agree a 
single repository is better.

However, one benefit of the original setup was that it made it really 
low-friction to land half-baked code in the osops-tools-contrib 
repository. The idea was to encourage tools sharing, rather than judge 
quality or curate a set. I think it's critical for the success of OSops 
that operator code can be brought in with very low friction, and 
curation can happen later.

If we opt for a theme-based directory structure, we could communicate 
that a given tool is in "unmaintained/use-at-your-own-risk" status using 
metadata. But thinking more about it, I would suggest we keep a 
low-friction "contrib/" directory in the repo, which more clearly 
communicates "use at your own risk" for anything within it. Then we 
could move tools under the "tools/" directory structure if a community 
forms within the SIG to support and improve a specific tool. That would 
IMHO allow both low-friction landing *and* curation to happen.

> [...]
> Please let me know if there are any objects to this plan. Otherwise, I
> will start cleaning things up and getting it staged in a new repo to be
> imported as an official repo owned by the SIG.

I like it!

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Osops

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)