Open Stack

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Eric Windisch <eric at cloudscaling.com> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Daniel Morris wrote:
>
> Today we are announcing the introduction of Database as a Service (Project
> RedDwarf) as an affiliated OpenStack incubation project.
>
> Cool, but who are "we"?  Rackspace or the Project Policy Board?   It is
> presumptuous to assume that this is an affiliated incubation project without
> being approved by the Project Policy Board (PPB).  While the addition may be
> very much welcome, there is governance and there are procedures. If a
> decision was made on adding this to the project, I'd expect an announcement
> from a member of the PPB, not one from a Rackspace Product Manager that has
> no otherwise involvement or activity in the project.
> If the PPB has already approved of this and this is simply an oversight in
> the method of announcement, then I apologize and will welcome this new
> addition.  Otherwise, lets await a response from the PPB.

Hi Eric!

A team inside Rackspace has been working on open-sourcing some of
their technology for a while now. The RedDwarf project is a proposed
OpenStack project that will be discussed by the PPB and at the design
summit next week. Let's welcome new open source contributors with
welcome arms. Whether RedDwarf becomes an official part of OpenStack
core projects is, as you say, up to the PPB, but all Daniel was doing
is letting the mailing list and community know about their existence.
Let's give them a hug, eh? :)

-jay