On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > The general statement of "people care more about features than > usability/stability" gets thrown around a lot. And gets lots of head > nodding. But rarely comes with specifics.
I think a lot of this general sentiment comes from watching what gets the investment from contributors, specifically from contributing companies. HP may have been an aberration for a time given the quantity of infra folk they once employed, but take a look at the distribution between feature work and non-feature work that our major contributing companies sponsor. Maybe it is time to set up direct sponsorship for some of this work that keeps coming up as important but "nobody wants to pay for it". Like an endowed chair or just a GoFundMe that lets someone continue to be the Stable Branch Overlord. It is the sort of work that no single company wants to be on the hook for, nor is it a good idea from the community perspective to be single sourced in that regard (again, the infra situation last fall) so lets make it easy for downstream consumers to share the funding of the upstream work they all want to see done but do not want or can not afford the responsibility of taking on themselves. You might say we already do this, the Foundation employs people to work directly on these things, and yes they do to great effect. But this topic keeps coming up because it is a specific request for specific OpenStack consumers. Lets help them help themselves. dt -- Dean Troyer [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
