Open Stack

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Everett Toews
<everett.toews at rackspace.com>wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>  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?
>
>
The draft charter lists this user type as an ecosystem partner. I'm not a
huge fan of user developer as people writing OpenStack itself are also
users and are usually either operators or are distribution or appliance
vendors.

- Ryan
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