Open Stack

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 01:18 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>
> wrote:
> > On 2016-02-08 11:11:39 -0800 (-0800), Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> > [...]
> >> "Development and maintenance of the project infrastructure and tooling
> >> used by contributors to develop OpenStack."
> >
> > I'm cool going with that as a new list description, though I'm not
> > entirely convinced that newcomers skimming quickly looking for a
> > place to get help with general OpenStack problems won't still
> > confuse "the project infrastructure" with "the bits you're trying to
> > install to run your OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure" since the
> > word "infrastructure" is thrown around in so many contexts now it's
> > essentially a meaningless industry fluff term. I guess what I was
> > looking for was a non-circular definition for our particular use of
> > "infrastructure" but that might just be expecting too much.
> 
> Short of changing the name of the team itself (nooo) I'm not sure we
> will ever get away with people not understanding at a glance :)

I think renaming the team to something that is more of a proper noun is
a good idea. It would help with a lot of confusion.

> 
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> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
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