Good move :-)

On 29/09/2015 23:45, Andrew Woodward wrote:
> [I'm cross posting this to the other Ceph threads to ensure that it's seen]
> 
> We've discussed this on Monday on IRC and again in the puppet-openstack IRC 
> meeting. The current census is that we will move from the deprecated 
> stackforge organization and will be moved to the openstack one. At this time 
> we will not be perusing membership as a formal OpenStack project. This will 
> allow puppet-ceph to retain the tight relationship with OpenStack community 
> and tools for the time being. 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:32 AM David Moreau Simard <d...@redhat.com 
> <mailto:d...@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     puppet-ceph currently lives in stackforge [1] which is being retired
>     [2]. puppet-ceph is also mirrored on the Ceph Github organization [3].
>     This version of the puppet-ceph module was created from scratch and
>     not as a fork of the (then) upstream puppet-ceph by Enovance [4].
>     Today, the version by Enovance is no longer officially maintained
>     since Red Hat has adopted the new release.
> 
>     Being an Openstack project under Stackforge or Openstack brings a lot
>     of benefits but it's not black and white, there are cons too.
> 
>     It provides us with the tools, the processes and the frameworks to
>     review and test each contribution to ensure we ship a module that is
>     stable and is held to the highest standards.
>     But it also means that:
>     - We forego some level of ownership back to the Openstack foundation,
>     it's technical committee and the Puppet Openstack PTL.
>     - puppet-ceph contributors will also be required to sign the
>     Contributors License Agreement and jump through the Gerrit hoops [5]
>     which can make contributing to the project harder.
> 
>     We have put tremendous efforts into creating a quality module and as
>     such it was the first puppet module in the stackforge organization to
>     implement not only unit tests but also integration tests with third
>     party CI.
>     Integration testing for other puppet modules are just now starting to
>     take shape by using the Openstack CI inrastructure.
> 
>     In the context of Openstack, RDO already ships with a mean to install
>     Ceph with this very module and Fuel will be adopting it soon as well.
>     This means the module will benefit from real world experience and
>     improvements by the Openstack community and packagers.
>     This will help further reinforce that not only Ceph is the best
>     unified storage solution for Openstack but that we have means to
>     deploy it in the real world easily.
> 
>     We all know that Ceph is also deployed outside of this context and
>     this is why the core reviewers make sure that contributions remain
>     generic and usable outside of this use case.
> 
>     Today, the core members of the project discussed whether or not we
>     should move puppet-ceph to the Openstack big tent and we had a
>     consensus approving the move.
>     We would also like to hear the thoughts of the community on this topic.
> 
>     Please let us know what you think.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     [1]: https://github.com/stackforge/puppet-ceph
>     [2]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/192016/
>     [3]: https://github.com/ceph/puppet-ceph
>     [4]: https://github.com/redhat-cip/puppet-ceph
>     [5]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute
> 
>     David Moreau Simard
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