Ok, as promissed I've pushed a patch with a reference document that collects what I had written in my post and the feedback from this thread.
I believe the patch needs tons of discussion so, y'all, get to it :) I've added members from different teams to help filling in some of the sections specific for their teams. https://review.openstack.org/398875 Thanks, Flavio On 07/11/16 09:09 -0800, Flavio Percoco wrote:
Greetings, I literally just posted a thing on my blog with some thoughts of what I'd expect any new language being proposed for OpenStack to cover before it can be accepted. The goal is to set the expectations right for what's needed for new languages to be accepted in the community. During the last evaluation of the Go proposal I raised some concerns but I also said I was not closed to discussing this again in the future. It's clear we've not documented expectations yet and this is a first step to get that going before a new proposal comes up and we start discussing this topic again. I don't think a blog post is the "way we should do this" but it was my way to dump what's in my brain before working on something official (which I'll do this/next week). I also don't think this list is perfect. It could either be too restrictive or too open but it's a first step. I won't paste the content of my post in this email but I'll provide a tl;dr and eventually come back with the actual reference document patch. I thought I'd drop this here in case people read my post and were confused about what's going on there. Ok, here's the TL;DR of what I believe we should know/do before accepting a new language into the community: - Define a way to share code/libraries for projects using the language - Work on a basic set of libraries for OpenStack base services - Define how the deliverables are distributed - Define how stable maintenance will work - Setup the CI pipelines for the new language The longer and more detailed version is here: https://blog.flaper87.com/embracing-other-languages-openstack.html Stay tuned, Flavio -- @flaper87 Flavio Percoco
-- @flaper87 Flavio Percoco
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