> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 9:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all][TC] 'team:danger-not-diverse tag' and my
> concerns
> 
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> Or are you suggesting it is preferable to hide that risk from our
> operators/users, to protect that project team developers ?
> 
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> 
Unfortunately this seems to be the trend, not only in <insert any group here> 
but in society. Everything needs to be everyone friendly and politically 
correct, it's not ok to talk about difficult topics with their real names 
because someone involved might get their feelings hurt, it's not ok to compete 
as losers might get their feelings hurt.

While being bit double edged sword I think this is exact example of such. One 
could argue if the project has reason to exist if saying out loud "it does not 
have diversity in its development community" will kill it. I think there is 
good amount of examples both ways in open source world where abandoned projects 
get picked up as there is people thinking they still have use case and value, 
on the other side maybe promising projects gets forgotten because no-one else 
really felt the urge to keep 'em alive.

Personally I feel this being bit like stamping feature experimental. "Please 
feel free to play around with it, but we do discourage you to deploy it in your 
production unless you're willing to pick up the maintenance of it in the case 
the team decides to do something else." There is nothing wrong with that.

I don't think these should be hiding behind the valance of the big tent and the 
consumer expectations should be set at least close to the reality without them 
needing to do huge amount of detective work. That was the point of the tags in 
first place, no?

Obviously above is just my blunt self. If someone went and rage killed their 
project because of that, good for you, now get yourself together and do it 
again. ;)

- Erno (jokke) Kuvaja

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