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On 02/02/2017 05:02 PM, Edgar Magana wrote:
> Jay,
>
> I am including the WG chairs to make sure they answers your questions and addresses your concerns.
> In Barcelona the UC asked exactly the same questions and recommended to the co-chairs of the LCOO WG to work with the existing WG to identify overlapping activities and either to work together or go ahead with the WG if there were not overlapping on goals and deliverables.

Was there any follow-on from that request from the UC?

> I will let the co-chairs to follow up yours questions. BTW. I do not think this topic should be posted in the openstack-dev mailing list. So, I will BCC it.

Sure, no problem.

> Andrew and Jamey,
>
> Please, address these questions. Let’s work all together to make sure that we have all groups aligned and coordinated.

Thanks, Edgar, appreciated. Andrew and Jamey, please do let me know if 
you would like me to rephrase or elaborate on any questions. Happy to do 
so. I genuinely want to see alignment with other groups in this effort.

Best,
-jay

> Thanks,
>
> Edgar
>
> On 2/2/17, 12:14 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I was told about this group today. I have a few questions. Hopefully
>     someone from this team can illuminate me with some answers.
>
>     1) What is the purpose of this group? The wiki states that the team
>     "aims to define the use cases and identify and prioritise the
>     requirements which are needed to deploy, manage, and run services on top
>     of OpenStack. This work includes identifying functional gaps, creating
>     blueprints, submitting and reviewing patches to the relevant OpenStack
>     projects, contributing to working those items, tracking their completion."
>
>     What is the difference between the LCOO and the following existing
>     working groups?
>
>       * Large Deployment Team
>       * Massively Distributed Team
>       * Product Working Group
>       * Telco/NFV Working Group
>
>     2) According to the wiki page, only companies that are "Multi-Cloud
>     Operator[s] and/or Network Service Provider[s]" are welcome in this
>     team. Why is the team called "Large Contributing OpenStack Operators" if
>     it's only for Telcos? Further, if this is truly only for Telcos, why
>     isn't the Telco/NFV working group appropriate?
>
>     3) Under the "Guiding principles" section of the above wiki, the top
>     principle is "Align with the OpenStack Foundation". If this is the case,
>     why did the group move its content to the closed Atlassian Confuence
>     platform? Why does the group have a set of separate Slack channels
>     instead of using the OpenStack mailing lists and IRC channels? Why is
>     the OPNFV Jira used for tracking work items for the LCOO agenda?
>
>     See https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.openstack.org_wiki_Gluon_Tasks-2DOcata&d=DwICAg&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=G0XRJfDQsuBvqa_wpWyDAUlSpeMV4W1qfWqBfctlWwQ&m=haOSpIhsa6KyDvuhRFigFVTLrTJxJ1Zv3kfm0JwTTtY&s=kntt00JEwpizTxQus4U9FhnwF_7WicJ7oRncGmkYPGc&e=  for examples.
>
>     4) I see a lot of agenda items around projects like Gluon, Craton,
>     Watcher, and Blazar. I don't see any concrete ideas about talking with
>     the developers of the key infrastructure services that OpenStack is
>     built around. How does the LCOO plan on reaching out to the developers
>     of the long-standing OpenStack projects like Nova, Neutron, Cinder, and
>     Keystone to drive their shared agenda?
>
>     Thanks for reading and (hopefully) answering.
>
>     -jay
>
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