On 03/01/2014 03:30 PM, John Griffith wrote:
Hey,
I just wanted to send out a quick note on a topic that came up recently.
Unfortunately the folks that I'd like to read this most; don't
participate on the ML typically, but I'd at least like to raise some
community awareness.
We all know OpenStack is growing at a rapid pace and has a lot of
promise, so much so that there's an enormous field of vendors and OS
distributions that are focusing a lot of effort and marketing on the
project.
Something that came up recently in the Cinder project is that one of the
backend device vendors wasn't happy with a feature that somebody was
working on and contributed a patch for. Instead of providing a
meaningful review and suggesting alternatives to the patch they set up
meetings with other vendors leaving the active members of the community
out and picked things apart in their own format out of the public view.
Nobody from the core Cinder team was involved in these discussions or
meetings (at least that I've been made aware of).
I don't want to go into detail about who, what, where etc at this point.
I instead, I want to point out that in my opinion this is no way to
operate in an Open Source community. Collaboration is one thing, but
ambushing other peoples work is entirely unacceptable in my opinion.
OpenStack provides a plethora of ways to participate and voice your
opinion, whether it be this mailing list, the IRC channels which are
monitored daily and also host a published weekly meeting for most
projects. Of course when in doubt you're welcome to send me an email at
any time with questions or concerns that you have about a patch. In any
case however the proper way to address concerns about a submitted patch
is to provide a review for that patch.
Everybody has a voice and the ability to participate, and the most
effective way to do that is by thorough, timely and constructive code
reviews..
I'd also like to point out that while a number of companies and vendors
have fancy taglines like "The Leaders of OpenStack", they're not.
OpenStack is a community effort, as of right now there is no company
that leads or runs OpenStack. If you have issues or concerns on the
development side you need to take those up with the development
community, not vendor xyz.
I have nothing to add except for a hearty HELL YES.
Monty
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