Oracles? Sent from my iPad
On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be clear (and I blame myself for using the term "shop" in my > reply), the goal certainly is NOT to monetize or marketize in the > ecosystem. I should have used the term "peruse the Bazaar" or "sit > around the OpenStack town square and talk to the soap-box oracles". I > don't know. Sometimes I wonder why simple ideas like this are met with > such disdain... > > -jay > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Jan Drake <jan_dr...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Well, if the goal is to create a marketplace for openstack compatible >> products... meaning a place to find solutions built on and around openstack >> core (monetization is not my point)... then great... if the point is to >> aggregate ephemera then that seems like simply a directory/repository of >> individual code/configuration chunks that smacks more of utilities for >> dealing with the core in which case: blah. >> >> Like any platform, openstack needs an easy way to demonstrate its value in >> an ecosystem and a repository for value adding applications would help with >> that. >> >> And yes... there's an app for that. >> >> >> On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: >>>> What benefits does an openstack-satellite project bring? Other than all >>>> using some openstack component, what do these projects have in common that >>>> justifies grouping them? For example, I know of many open source projects >>>> that use swift (swauth, slogging, cyberduck, all the rackspace language >>>> bindings, several iOS apps, a few dashboards), and I can't seem to see why >>>> they would benefit by being grouped into one umbrella. >>> >>> That's the whole point, John... *you* know which open source projects >>> use swift (because you're a contributor to Swift). I wouldn't have any >>> clue what projects use Swift unless I was a contributor to OpenStack. >>> There is no place to go to see the variety of projects that are being >>> built to *consume* OpenStack APIs, to extend OpenStack projects, to >>> implement OpenStack APIs in different languages or using different >>> backends/algorithms, etc. >>> >>> The point of the satellite project, as I understand the proposal, is >>> to have a place for the broader community (i.e. not Python core >>> project developers) to upload code and configuration snippets, >>> advertise alternate implementations, and in general have a place to >>> search the ecosystem of OpenStack stuff. What the could be wrong with >>> that? >>> >>> About 5 years ago, I built MySQL Forge (http://forge.mysql.com/) for >>> similar purposes -- as a place for the MySQL project ecosystem to >>> live, big or small projects, code snippets, etc. That interface is >>> admittedly dated and needs work to prevent things like spam, but then >>> again, so does our wiki! The point is that not everyone is a) a Python >>> developer, b) cares about Python development, c) wants or needs to >>> contribute at all. I think it's a good idea to have a place where >>> people can go "shop the OpenStack bazaar" so to speak... :) >>> >>> -jay >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
