Thanks for your comments Gordon. I appreciate where you are coming from and I think we are actually in agreement on a lot of things.
I just want to make it clear that from the very beginning of the project the team has tried to communicate (but perhaps could have done a better job at it) that we aren’t trying to displace other messaging systems that are clearly delivering a lot of value today. In fact, I personally have long been a proponent of using the best tool for the job. The Zaqar project was kicked off at an unconference session several summits ago because the community saw a need that was not covered by other messaging systems. Does that mean those other systems are “bad” or “wrong”? Of course not. It simply means that there are some cases where those other systems aren’t the best tool for the job, and another tool is needed (and vice versa). Does that other tool look *exactly* like Zaqar? Probably not. But a lot of people have told us Zaqar--in its current form--already delivers a lot of value that they can’t get from other messaging systems that are available to them. Zaqar, like any open source project, is a manifestation of lots of peoples' ideas, and will evolve over time to meet the needs of the community. Does a Qpid/Rabbit/Kafka provisioning service make sense? Probably. Would such a service totally overlap in terms of use-cases with Zaqar? Community feedback suggests otherwise. Will there be some other kind of thing that comes out of the woodwork? Possibly. (Heck, if something better comes along I for one have no qualms in shifting resources to the more elegant solution--again, use the best tool for the job.) This process happens all the time in the broader open-source world. But this process takes a healthy amount of time, plus broad exposure and usage, which is something that you simply don’t get as a non-integrated project in the OpenStack ecosystem. In any case, it’s pretty clear to me that Zaqar graduating should not be viewed as making it "the officially blessed messaging service for the cloud” and nobody is allowed to have any other ideas, ever. If that happens, it’s only a symptom of a deeper perception/process problem that is far from unique to Zaqar. In fact, I think it touches on all non-integrated projects, and many integrated ones as well. --Kurt On 9/4/14, 12:38 PM, "Gordon Sim" <g...@redhat.com> wrote: > >This is not intended as criticism of Zaqar in anyway. In my opinion, >'reinvention' is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just another way of >saying innovative approach and/or original thinking, both of which are >good and both of which I think are important in the context of >communicating in the cloud. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev