Excerpts from gordon chung's message of 2017-06-15 20:24:06 +0000: > > On 15/06/17 03:23 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > > We are very open with our hosting, allowing projects that have not > > yet, and may never, sign up to be governed by the TC to use our > > infrastructure services. We expect them to be related in some way, > > but we have even imported projects when we've taken over maintenance > > (several Oslo libs fall into this category, as do a few others like > > mox3 and sqlalchemy-migrate). With the move away from stackforge, > > and other changes in that hosting (that were made for good reasons > > to make the infra team's lives easier and to make it simpler for a > > project to join the set of governed projects), we have removed most > > of the other technical signals about which projects are in that > > "official" list and which are not. We did not at the same time > > remove all of the people in the world who want to understand what > > is, and what is not, "in" OpenStack. > > i see, so this is less an existential question of 'what is openstack' > and more 'how to differentiate governance projects from a random repo > created last weekend' > > this might have been just me, but big tent was exactly 'big tent == > governance' so when i read 'moving away from "big tent"' i think 'what > is this *new* thing we're moving to and if we're redefining this new > thing, what for?'. it seems this is not the case.
No. We're trying to pick new words, because there continues to be confusion about the old words. > > And for the record, from the TC's perspective, being a governed > > project has nothing to do with whether the participants are sponsors > > of the foundation. > > sorry, i probably wasn't clear, i simply noticed that it was a corporate > sponsor that was misusing the 'big tent' name so was just thinking we > could easily tell them, that's not what it means. wasn't suggesting > anything else by sponsor comment. You'd think it would be that easy. A surprising number of folks within the community don't really understand the old naming either, though (see the rest of this thread for examples). Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev