On Aug 14, 2014 2:04 AM, "Eoghan Glynn" <egl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > >> Letting the industry field-test a project and feed their experience > > >> back into the community is a slow process, but that is the best > > >> measure of a project's success. I seem to recall this being an > > >> implicit expectation a few years ago, but haven't seen it discussed in > > >> a while. > > > > > > I think I recall us discussing a "must have feedback that it's > > > successfully deployed" requirement in the last cycle, but we recognized > > > that deployers often wait until a project is integrated. > > > > In the early discussions about incubation, we respected the need to > > officially recognize a project as part of OpenStack just to create the > > uptick in adoption necessary to mature projects. Similarly, integration is a > > recognition of the maturity of a project, but I think we have graduated > > several projects long before they actually reached that level of maturity. > > Actually running a project at scale for a period of time is the only way to > > know it is mature enough to run it in production at scale. > > > > I'm just going to toss this out there. What if we set the graduation bar to > > "is in production in at least two sizeable clouds" (note that I'm not saying > > "public clouds"). Trove is the only project that has, to my knowledge, met > > that bar prior to graduation, and it's the only project that graduated since > > Havana that I can, off hand, point at as clearly successful. Heat and > > Ceilometer both graduated prior to being in production; a few cycles later, > > they're still having adoption problems and looking at large architectural > > changes. I think the added cost to OpenStack when we integrate immature or > > unstable projects is significant enough at this point to justify a more > > defensive posture. > > > > FWIW, Ironic currently doesn't meet that bar either - it's in production in > > only one public cloud. I'm not aware of large private installations yet, > > though I suspect there are some large private deployments being spun up > > right now, planning to hit production with the Juno release. > > We have some hard data from the user survey presented at the Juno summit, > with respectively 26 & 53 production deployments of Heat and Ceilometer > reported. > > There's no cross-referencing of deployment size with services in production > in those data presented, though it may be possible to mine that out of the > raw survey responses.
Indeed, and while that would be useful information, I was referring to the deployment of those services at scale prior to graduation, not post graduation. Best, Devananda
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