On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Flavio Percoco <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I'd like my first action as Zaqar's PTL to be based on reflections and > transparency with regards to what our past has been, to what our > present is and to what our future could be as a project and community. > Therefore, I'm sending this call for adoption and support before > taking other actions (also mentioned below). > > The summit is very close and the Zaqar team is looking forward to it. > > The upcoming summit represents an important opportunity for Zaqar to > integrate with other projects. In the previous summits - since > I get integration with Horizon etc. But to use the SQS/SNS analogy how would say Nova integrate with Zaqar? > Icehouse's - we've been collecting feedback from the community. We've > worked on addressing the many use-cases, we've worked on addressing > the concerns raised by the community and we've also kept moving > towards reaching the project's goals. > > As you all know, the project has gone through many ups and downs. > We've had some "failures" in the past and we've also had successes, as > a project and as a team. Nevertheless, we've got to the point where it > doesn't make much sense to keep pushing new features to the project > until it gains adoption. Therefore, I'd like to take advantage of the > workshop slots and invite people from other projects to help us/guide > us through a hacking session on their projects so we can help with the > adoption. The current adoption of Zaqar consist in: > > - 1 company reachingunning it in production > - 1 planning to do it soon > - RDO support > > Unfortunately, the above is certainly not enough for a project to > succeed and it makes the time and effort spent on the project not > worth it. It's been more than 2 years since we kicked the project off > and it's time for it to show some results. The current problem seems > to be that many people want the project but no one wants to be the > first in adopting Zaqar (which kind of invalidates the premises of the > "Big tent"). > > In summary, this is a call for adoption before we call it a nice > adventure and ask for the project to be excluded from the OpenStack > organization based on the lack of adoption and contributions. > > If you think it's worth it, speak up. Either way, thanks for the > support and for reading thus far. > > On behalf of the Zaqar team, > Flavio > > -- > @flaper87 > Flavio Percoco > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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