On 2015-08-14 10:52:55 +0100 (+0100), Chris Dent wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Clint Byrum wrote: > > > > The same is true for these bugs. Yes they're real, yes more orgs > > should devote developers to fixing them. > > This may be the root of my concern and something that we're going > to have to address sooner than later. [...]
Deserves its own thread, but basically anything that isn't directly connected to writing more patches is subject to a tragedy of the commons in our community. Member companies are happy to donate developers to write more code (especially if it's in service of implementing a driver for their proprietary hardware/software or a feature they plan to leverage in some upcoming product), but we have too few working on anything that supports the broader project much less free software as a whole. There are some companies (thank you!) whose management realize it's to their benefit to make OpenStack successful by sponsoring or nurturing talented contributors to work on fixing bugs in neglected core code on some of our larger projects, reviewing changes across the board rather than just those submitted by their coworkers, contributing to efforts like documentation, quality assurance, translation, security, coordinating releases, backporting to stable branches, helping run and improve our community infrastructure... In many cases contributors _want_ to be involved in these important efforts, but are unable to convince their employers to allow them to spend time working on part of OpenStack which doesn't directly serve some product roadmap. Our foundation staff and board of directors are well placed to put appropriate pressure on member companies who have been favoring their own tactical contributions over strategic work to benefit us all. Let them know when you see this happening. https://www.openstack.org/foundation/staff https://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors -- Jeremy Stanley __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev