Open Stack

On 06/12/2013 10:09 AM, Everett Toews wrote:
> The OpenStack community has been and needs to continue to be a welcoming
> community for developers in all programming languages. Naturally I’m
> referring to developers who are building systems on top of OpenStack and
> not the developers of OpenStack itself.
>
> This email is prompted by a minor incident in the #openstack IRC
> channel. I’m not looking to single people out so I’ll use a pretty
> generic description so it can’t so easily be found in the IRC logs.
>
> A developer came to #openstack to ask a question about a software
> development kit (SDK) in another programming language. Within 1
> minute he got a reply that can only be described as snarky. Undeterred,
> he went ahead and asked his questions. 20 minutes later a couple of
> more snarky responses were added to it. No real help at all. It’s not
> the lack of help that’s at issue though. It’s the unwelcoming attitude.
>
> I have not seen that developer in the channel since then.
>
> Like I said, a minor incident. I don’t want to blow this out of
> proportion but it does need to be addressed. It’s one of those cases
> where you see the cracks start to appear, it’s best to fix them right
> away before they become real problems.
>
> I’m sure we’ve all been part of such chats about languages. When you’re
> face-to-face or online but know the people personally, it usually
> goes without saying that it’s good natured. However, when you’re new to
> a community, it’s not so clear. Of course the OpenStack community
> is Python-centric but the OpenStack API is not. We need developers from
> all of the other languages building on top of OpenStack in
> whatever language they need to work with. Remember, it might not even be
> their choice!
>
> Let’s continue to be good stewards of the OpenStack API and encourage
> it’s use by all programming languages by being an inclusive
> and welcoming community.
>
> If you ever encounter someone looking for help with another language,
> you can always point them to the SDKs wiki page [1]. They should be
> able to find their way from there.
>
> Everett
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs

Well said, Everett.

-jay