Open Stack

Hi,

On 06/18/2013 06:10 PM, Everett Toews wrote:
> When I was writing a blog post [1], I found myself stumbling over
> distinguishing between the developers of OpenStack itself and the
> developers who build on top of it. It might seem like a minor thing but
> as we all know, naming things is one of the hardest things in computer
> science. :)

:-)

> I mulled over terms like solution developers, external developers, 3rd
> party developers, etc. but didn't care much for any of them. Now I'm
> thinking that in the spirit of the user committee and its draft charter
> [2] we should simply name them user developers.
> 
> It would be convenient if we could come to a (lazy) consensus on this
> and use one term moving forward as it's going to become more and more
> relevant as OpenStack matures.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm not a fan of "user developers" - it risks causing more confusion
than clarity.

It probably makes more sense to talk about OpenStack (or platform)
developers, OpenStack (or platform) operators and application
developers. Also I would add OpenStack distributors and integrators, and
public cloud vendors (which are a special class of openstack operator).

Cheers,
Dave.

> [1] http://blog.phymata.com/2013/06/12/the-openstack-community-welcomes-developers-in-all-programming-languages/
> [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqEToyo/edit
> 
> 
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