On Tue, Mar 10, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 15:23 -0700, James E. Blair wrote: > > The holy grail of this system would be the "suitable for production > > deployment" tag, but no one has figured out how to define it yet. > > Are crazy ideas welcome in this phase? > > I start with 2 below: > > Preface: an idea circulates about visually displaying in a web page the > projects.yaml file and the tags in there. Visitors would be able to > browse the list of projects and sort, pick, search and find what they > need from a nice representation of the 'big tent'. > > 1) how about we pull the popularity of OpenStack projects as reported in > the User Survey and display such number on the page where we list the > projects? What if, together with the objective tags managed by TC and > community at large, we show also the number of known deployment as > guidance? > > 2) there are some 'fairly objective' indicators of quality of open > source code, developed in a handful of academic projects that I'm aware > of (Calipso and sos-opensource.org come to mind, but there are other). > Maybe we can build a tool that pulls those metrics from each of our > repositories and provides more guidance to visitors so they can form > their own mind? > > Nobody can really vet for 'production ready' but probably we can provide > data for someone to get a more informed opinion. Too crazy?
This sort of information would be useful, but I don't think we want to turn our project governance documentation into a product guide. We should *have* a product guide, but it should live somewhere else. Doug > > .stef > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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
