Open Stack

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Clark Boylan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Clark Boylan wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > > The Infra team has been brainstorming and collecting feedback in
> > > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/infra-services-naming as to what
> > > actual name/domain the Winterscale effort will use. If you've not
> > > been following along, the earlier discussions can be found in the
> > > following mailing list threads:
> > > 
> > > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2018-May/005957.html
> > > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2018-July/006010.html
> > > 
> > > So far the "short list" at the bottom of the pad seems to contain
> > > only one entry: OpenDev.
> > > 
> > > The OpenStack Foundation has offered to let us take control of
> > > opendev.org for this purpose if we would like. They have it mainly
> > > as a defensive registration to protect the OpenDev Conference brand,
> > > but use a separate opendevconf.org domain for that at present. The
> > > opendev.org domain is just sitting parked on the same nameservers as
> > > openstack.org right now, not in use for anything. The brand itself
> > > has a positive connotation in the community so far, and the OpenDev
> > > Conferences share a lot of similar goals (bringing communities of
> > > people together to collaborate openly on design and development
> > > activities) so this even provides some useful synergy around the
> > > name and possible promotional tie-ins with the events if we like.
> > > 
> > > I know lots of us are eager to move forward on the rebranding, so I
> > > wanted to wake this discussion back up and try to see if we can
> > > drive it to a conclusion. As we continue to take on hosting for
> > > additional large projects, having somewhere for them to send the
> > > contributors and users in their community which has a distinct
> > > identity unclouded by OpenStack itself will help make our services
> > > much more welcoming. If you don't particularly like the OpenDev idea
> > > or have alternatives you think might achieve greater consensus
> > > within our team and present a better image to our extended
> > > community, present and future, please update the above mentioned pad
> > > or follow up to this mailing list thread. Thanks!
> > 
> > I am a fan of OpenDev. I think it gives a path forward that works for 
> > the immediate future and long term. https://review.opendev.org seems 
> > like a reasonable place to do code review for a project :)
> > 
> > I do think it would be good to continue collecting input particularly 
> > from those involved in the day to day infra activities. If we can reach 
> > rough consensus over the next week or so that would give us the 
> > opportunity to use time at the PTG to do a rough sketch of how we can 
> > start "migrating" to the new name.
> > 
> > Your feedback much appreciated.
> > 
> 
> It has been about 3 weeks and the feedback so far has largely been positive. The one concern we have seen raised is that this may be confusing with the OpenDev conference. Fungi makes a great argument that cross promoting between the conference and the development tooling can be a net positive since many of our goals overlap.
> 
> Finding that argument compelling myself, and not seeing any counterarguments I think we should move forward with using the OpenDev name and opendev.org domain for the team and services that we host.
> 
> Long story short let's go ahead and use this name and start making progress on this effort. Next stop: etherpad.opendev.org.
> 
> Thank you,
> Clark
> 
+1 for etherpad.opendev.org

- Paul