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hi,

you may have noticed that changes are in motion and an extra telemetry 
tag being floated around. the following is your coles|cliff|spark notes 
on what you need to know.


-- background --
three years ago, the ceilometer project was created to tackle the 
billing of cloud environments. over time, people realised 'data is data 
is data' and anything can be derived from it and ceilometer's scope 
creeped. unfortunately, the scope creep in the developer space could not 
keep up with the scope creep in the user space and caused confusion. it 
also made it difficult to pinpoint issues as the 'ceilometer' term now 
covered so much space.


-- what happened --
in the past few cycles, the ceilometer project has been componentised 
into smaller, discrete projects to tackle specific functionality within 
the telemetry use case domain.


-- where we are now --
to avoid the overloaded term of ceilometer, the Telemetry project[1] was 
created to encapsulate the collective of resulting projects contributing 
to portions of this domain. to clarify the purpose of each individually 
managed project, the following are projects under the Telemetry managed 
domain:

     - Aodh - an alarming service[2]
     - Ceilometer - a data collection service[3]
     - Gnocchi - a resource indexing and metric storage service[4]


-- what's with the name --
the generic name of Telemetry is not to assert authority over this 
space, we are just a collective who have interest and contribute to 
parts of this domain. each of the Aodh, Ceilometer, and Gnocchi teams 
are interested and open in collaborating[5] and building up this domain.


-- what happens next --
for now, as the projects are closely collaborating, they will share 
design and meeting space until they are deemed too large to share.

from a consumer pov, nothing should really change. the services are 
already packaged and separated into Aodh, Ceilometer, Gnocchi and the 
documentation already references Telemetry[6]

Going forward the teams will continue to improve each of the services[7] 
and help others extend them[5].

as always, anyone is welcome to contribute or provide feedback on each 
of the projects:
     - irc: #openstack-telemetry on Freenode for questions
     - ml: [telemetry] subject for general topics, [aodh], [ceilometer], 
or [gnocchi] for project specific topics


if there are any questions, please let us know so we can make transition 
go smoothly.


[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Telemetry
[2] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/aodh
[3] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer
[4] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/gnocchi
[5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Telemetry#Externally_Managed
[6] http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/telemetry.html
[7] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-November/078461.html

cheers,

-- 
gord