Open Stack

Philip Schwartz wrote:
> I am a member of a new release engineering tools team at Rackspace. Our
> goal is to help build the next generation of tools to clean up our
> internal development process along with the OpenStack development
> process. With this in mind, I recently broached the topic of a
> replacement system to Gerrit with jeblair, fungi, and mordred. This will
> be a complete from the ground up replacement of Gerrit built completely
> in python following the standards devised for the OpenStack projects.
> The targeted name for the system will be Vinz in order to match the
> naming of Zuul.
> [...]

Being fully aware of the irony, I'll play the devil's advocate:

Could you detail why improving Gerrit is not an option ? At first glance
its development seemed to be open enough, and it didn't appear
fundamentally wrong (just needing a few incremental changes).

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)