Excerpts from Chris Dent's message of 2015-11-19 20:55:15 +0000: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Julien Danjou wrote: > > > It would be good to support that as being *normal*, not "potentially > > incorrect and random"! > > Yes. > > The underlying issue in this thread is the dominance of the six month > cycle and the way this is perceived to be (any may actually be) a > benefit for distributors, marketers, etc. That dominance drives the > technological and social context of OpenStack. No surprise that it is > present in our tooling and our schedules but sometimes I think it > would be great if we could fight the power, shift the paradigm, break > the chains. > > But that's crazy talk, isn't it?
The cycle pattern affects this discussion most directly because of the distributors, but the social aspects of having the community in a rhythm are valuable to us, and not just consumers of our work. If we're going to have a thing called the "Mitaka Release of OpenStack" we should do that on a schedule. As Thierry says elsewhere in this thread, if a project isn't releasing at the time of the Mitaka release but has something compatible with the Mitaka release, that's still a good thing. It's just not part of the Mitaka release. > However it is pretty clear the dominance is not aligned with at least > some of the goals of a big tent. One goal, in particular, is making > OpenStack stuff useful and accessible to people or groups outside of > OpenStack where release-often is awesome and the needs of the packagers > aren't really that important. Hence the cycle-with-intermediary model. > I reckon (and this may be an emerging consensus somewhere in this > thread) we need to make it easier (by declaration) in the tooling > to test against whatever is desired. Can we enumerate the changes > required to make that go? __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
