Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2016-11-29 21:52:35 +0000: > On 2016-11-29 13:40:56 -0800 (-0800), Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2016-11-29 21:10:35 +0000: > [...] > > > I also feel very strongly that those alone would be terrible reasons > > > to consider becoming an official project team under the governance > > > of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Our project governance is not > > > intended as a means of marketing and advertising products, and I'm > > > going to do my best to make sure that it's extremely ineffective at > > > that for any companies who try to (ab)use it to those ends. > > > > This struck me as overly aggressive. Open Source is a social model, and > > if a commercial entity would like to participate in that social model > > in good faith, I think that's beneficial to everyone else. Throwing > > up a "not for commercial use" barrier to their participation will just > > discourage them and others from investing more. > > Thanks, it was not at all my intent to be aggressive towards Sam and > I neglected to state that I agree the first part of his reply (which > I had trimmed) was a fine set of reasons to seek becoming an > official OpenStack project team. So sorry, Sam (and everyone else)! > > It was however my intent to be aggressive in defending our use of > project governance for actually governing the direction of > OpenStack, and I don't want to see it perverted into a product > marketing platform. We need better ways to help vendors advertise > their driver support without bringing the TC into the picture as a > deciding body. It's more work for the TC, and it gets in the way of > what everyone actually wants to accomplish.
Thanks for clarifying Jeremy. :) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
