[openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Thierry Carrez
Hi everyone, The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so far, divided TC members. We require that projects have a number of different developers involved before they apply for incubation, mostly to raise the bus factor. But we also currently require some level of diversit

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 18/12/2013 11:40, Thierry Carrez a écrit : I guess there are 3 options: 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it for graduation,

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so > far, divided TC members. > > We require that projects have a number of different developers involved > before they apply for incubation, mostly

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Ian Wells
I think we're all happy that if a project *does* have a broad support base we're good; this is only the case for projects in one of two situations: - support is spread so thinly that each company involved in the area has elected to support a different solution - the project is just not that interes

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Jarret Raim
> -Original Message- > From: Sylvain Bauza [mailto:sylvain.ba...@bull.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 5:04 AM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation > >

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Alex Freedland
I would vote for the approach number 2. I think there are some distinct advantages for one company driving the development of a certain feature sets early in the life of the project, typically, the speed of development is faster, and it is easier to achieve focus early on. Allowing important initi

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Thierry Carrez
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> I guess there are 3 options: >> >> 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend >> projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved >> >> 2. Do not requi

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> I guess there are 3 options: > >> > >> 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend > >> projects pre-incu

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote: > Le 18/12/2013 11:40, Thierry Carrez a écrit : > > I guess there are 3 options: >> >> 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend >> projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved >> >> 2.

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so > > far, divided TC members. > > > > We require that projects have a number of

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
gt; > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation > > > > Le 18/12/2013 11:40, Thierry Carrez a écrit : > > > I guess there are 3 options: > > > > > > 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or > > > rec

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Dolph Mathews
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:21AM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it for > > graduation, and remove projects from incubation if they fail to attract > > a diverse community > >

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Jarret Raim
> It is a difficult thing to measure, and I don't think the intent is to set a hard % > for contributions. I think the numbers for Barbican were just illustrating the > fact that the concrete contributions are very coming very heavily from one > source. That's only one data point, though, and as

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Steven Dake
On 12/18/2013 03:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi everyone, The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so far, divided TC members. We require that projects have a number of different developers involved before they apply for incubation, mostly to raise the bus factor. But

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Sean Dague
On 12/18/2013 10:37 AM, Steven Dake wrote: > On 12/18/2013 03:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so >> far, divided TC members. >> >> We require that projects have a number of different developers involved >> before t

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Julien Danjou
On Wed, Dec 18 2013, Thierry Carrez wrote: > 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend > projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved > > 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it for > graduation, and remove projects from

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 18/12/13 11:40 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi everyone, The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so far, divided TC members. We require that projects have a number of different developers involved before they apply for incubation, mostly to raise the bus factor. But

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 12/18/2013 10:37 AM, Steven Dake wrote: > > On 12/18/2013 03:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> The TC meeting yesterday uncovered an interesting question which, so > >> far, divided TC members. > >> > >> We require th

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Doug Hellmann
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Jarret Raim wrote: > > It is a difficult thing to measure, and I don't think the intent is to > set > a hard % > > for contributions. I think the numbers for Barbican were just > illustrating > the > > fact that the concrete contributions are very coming very heav

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Flavio Percoco
On 18/12/13 12:35 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Sean Dague wrote: On 12/18/2013 10:37 AM, Steven Dake wrote: > But I can tell you one thing for certain, an actual incubation > commitment from the OpenStack Technical Committee has a huge impact - it >

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/18/2013 07:01 AM, Dolph Mathews wrote: > Options 2 and 3 sound identical to me, when realistically applied. > Option 3 just makes the common sense aspect mandatory. Indeed, Option 3 gets my vote. One aspect I'd like to mention regarding diversity of contributors in any open source project is

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Mike Perez
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > I guess there are 3 options: > > 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend > projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved > > 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require i

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-18 Thread Jay Pipes
On 12/18/2013 12:34 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: I have more of an issue with a project failing *after* becoming integrated than during incubation. That's why we have the incubation period to begin with. For the same reason, I'm leaning towards allowing projects into incubation without a very diverse

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-19 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Le 18/12/2013 16:37, Steven Dake a écrit : In the early days of incubation requests, I got the distinct impression managers at companies believed that actually getting a project incubated in OpenStack was not possible, even though it was sparsely documented as an option. Maybe things are dif

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-20 Thread Bryan D. Payne
+1 -bryan On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 12/18/2013 12:34 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > >> I have more of an issue with a project failing *after* becoming >> integrated than during incubation. That's why we have the incubation >> period to begin with. For the same reason,

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-21 Thread Everett Toews
On Dec 18, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > I guess there are 3 options: > > 1. Require diversity for incubation, but find ways to bless or recommend > projects pre-incubation so that this diversity can actually be achieved > > 2. Do not require diversity for incubation, but require it