On 03/10/2015 02:43 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Joe Gordon wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com >> <mailto:rbry...@redhat.com>> wrote: >>> We now have several new project proposals. However, I propose not >>> approving any new projects until we have a tagging system that is at >>> least far enough along to represent the set of criteria that we used to >>> apply to all OpenStack projects (with exception for ones we want to >>> consciously drop). Otherwise, I think it's a significant setback to our >>> project governance as we have yet to provide any useful way to navigate >>> the growing set of projects. >> >> I don't follow this argument. >> >> My understanding is no tags will be required to join 'OpenStack,' they >> are just optional things for projects to try to achieve once they are >> in. So holding off accepting new projects for something that is not >> required during the adding new projects process seems odd. >> >> Perhaps a better way to say the same thing is: While working with the >> tagging system to come up with a good set of tags to represent our >> previous graduation requirements, we may want to adjust the new project >> requirements[0]. >> >> [0] governance.openstack.org/reference/new-projects-requirements.html >> <http://governance.openstack.org/reference/new-projects-requirements.html> > > I totally agree with you. Project team additions are judged on the new > projects requirements. Tagging are just about describing them once they > are in. I suspect most people advocating for a freeze are actually > wanting extra rules to be added to the new project requirements (think: > diversity). We said at the TC that we would refine those requirements as > we go and learn... So slowly processing applications sounds like a > better way to make fast iterative progress than freezing altogether.
I completely understand and agree with the difference between project additions and the categorization. > I /think/ Russell's point is that we'd end up adding not-yet-categorized > stuff in the tent and that might create temporary confusion -- I tend to > think that freezing project addition is actually more detrimental. Yes, that was my point. It's an ordering issue. -- Russell Bryant __________________________________________________________________________ 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
