Excerpts from Sam Betts (sambetts)'s message of 2016-11-29 21:00:06 +0000: > There are a couple of reasons we want to become an official OpenStack project. > > From a project perspective, we want to be recognized that the project isn’t > just a “public source” repo for Cisco’s drivers but is a community driven > open source project for supporting Cisco hardware/software and we want to > encourage community members that are using Cisco equipment to participate > with us contributing to and helping improve the drivers.
Thanks, Sam. This is the spirit I think we should be encouraging for all projects. Doug > > Additionally, being “official” indicates a level of maturity which benefits > us as a project by improving the public perception of our drivers, and also > indicates to OpenStack users that OpenStack itself is mature and has support > for existing technologies and physical equipment out of the box. We want to > make the Cisco drivers visible/discoverable so that operators evaluating > OpenStack for their use cases will easily be able to know if a driver for > their equipment exists without digging around in git repos. > > In our current state (not an official project or under an official project) > we can’t publish our existence, releases or docs to any official location on > *.openstack.org which makes it difficult for those new to OpenStack to know > we exist, or find any information on how to deploy/use Cisco equipment with > OpenStack. > > Sam __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
