On 06/16/2017 02:57 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
On Thu, Jun 15 2017, Doug Hellmann wrote:
One of the *most* common complaints the TC gets from outside the
contributor community is that people do not understand what projects
are part of OpenStack and what parts are not. We have a clear
definition of that in our minds (the projects that have said they
want to be part of OpenStack, and agreed to put themselves under
TC governance, with all of the policies that implies). That definition
is so trivial to say, that it seems like a tautology. However,
looking in from the outside of the community, that definition isn't
helpful.
I still wonder why they care. Who care, really? Can we have some people
that care on this thread so they explain directly what we're trying to
solve here?
Everything is just a bunch of free software projects to me. The
governance made zero difference in my contributions or direction of the
projects I PTL'ed.
When I was first starting out, I didn't care at all about governance. I wanted
to know "What do the various components *do*, and which of them do I need to
install to get a practical and useful OpenStack installation?".
A bit later on, I started thinking about "Which of these components are mature
enough to be usable, and likely to be around for long enough to make it
worthwhile to use them?"
A bit further down the road the issue became "I have this specific thing I want
to accomplish, are there any projects out there that are working on it?"
I suspect I'm not the only one that went through this process, and I don't feel
like there's a lot of information out there aimed at answering this sort of
question without spending a lot of time digging into individual service
documentation.
Chris
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