FWIW, I'm perfectly happy to work with either. :) -jay
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael Gundlach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Soren Hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:47:46PM -0500, Michael Gundlach wrote: >> > +1 for Eventlet for the reasons already stated. Simpler code often >> > translates to fewer bugs and faster development, and I expect that >> > working with Eventlet will also mean more people who are interested in >> > contributing to OpenStack. >> >> Really? You think there's more of a community around eventlet than >> Twisted? > > No info there. I have not used Eventlet or Twisted in the past, and am > giving the perspective of an outsider considering working with the project. > I had two offers earlier this year -- one to work at a company solving a > large scaling problem on a Twisted system, and one to work solving a large > scaling problem working in Eventlet. They were pretty similar offers so it > came down largely to choosing the technology I'd want to work with. > When I researched Twisted, I read or got the impression that: > - it had a "near-vertical learning curve" > - it was named Twisted for a reason -- that it's hard to think the way > Twisted needs you to think > - its libraries were a morass (the homepage talks about having two web > frameworks and it's not clear which one to choose) > When I researched Eventlet, I read or got the impression that: > - it is clean and intuitive to code in > - it was the thing that came along after Twisted to solve the problem in a > better way > - momentum was gaining around it while Twisted was losing momentum > I took the Eventlet job with Rackspace (having mistakenly understood during > interviews that Rackspace was for-sure migrating to Eventlet :) ) because > what I had been able to find out made Twisted look unappetizing and Eventlet > look great. > I would imagine that my experience is typical -- a shallow review of the two > technologies made Eventlet much more appealing to work with. Thus my > suggestion that we'll get more contributions if we go with Eventlet. That > said, if there's some technical reason that one system is better for our > needs than the other, of course that trumps evangelism. > HTH, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nova > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nova > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nova Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nova More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
