The labs repos have caused us considerable pain in terms of user confusion, releases, and code maintenance.
It’s tempting to come up a sprawling proposal that attempts to fix the whole problem at once but I’d rather try to come up with just *one* thing that will help fix it. Then we discuss it, make a decision, and record that decision under our Best Practices [1]. We try to keep the discussion focused on that one thing. After we’ve decided on that one thing, we move on to the next thing. Hopefully sooner than later, we’ll have a bunch of things that help us solve a problem. One thing that would help fix the problem with labs repos is if we had some kind of criteria for moving an api/provider from a labs repo to core. An unambiguous-as-possible set of criteria that made it clear to all developers that an api/provider is ready to move from a labs repo to core. Let’s discuss it. Regards, Everett [1] https://wiki.apache.org/jclouds/Best%20Practices
