Open Stack

Spencer Krum wrote:
> 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.

You could generalize usage of "Infra" as a team name and phase out usage 
of "Infrastructure". That would avoid a lot of renaming.

"""
The "Infra" team is the horizontal team developing and maintaining the 
systems and tooling used by contributors to develop OpenStack itself.
"""

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)