+1 to John's recollection - I believe this was also how we were going to look at proposed/incubated projects. As long as the integration required with packaging/CI is present (or the project members will own responsibility for the gap), I think we should let projects do what they will.
Joshua McKenty Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. (650) 283-6846 [email protected] On 2011-06-07, at 3:35 AM, John Dickinson wrote: > On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> Eric Day wrote: >>> Yup, sounds accurate. Still waiting on the integration bits, and >>> once things are functional and features/drawbacks were documented, >>> make a final call. There were also talks of doing a larger community >>> vote (like PPB/PTL votes) to make sure we're not changing only for >>> a vocal minority. >> >> +1 >> >> The idea is to come up with a clear cost/benefit analysis and present it >> to the PPB which will estimate if the benefit outweighs the cost for the >> project. >> >> We already know from the design summit that developers seem to prefer >> the tool they are the most used to -- the question now is how costly it >> is to move. From the tools integration standpoint, but also other aspects. > > It seems that I misremembered. We (the swift team) were simply waiting for > the conversion tools to be done (which they are) and for us to have the time > to transition the code (which will happen soon). > > That being said, I am looking for a way for the swift devs to use the tools > of their choice (git/github in this case) and a way for the Openstack > organization to package and have visibility into the swift project. Having > gone through one round of a release now, I do see some great advantages for > Launchpad's packaging process. However, I would like to see swift moved to > github as soon as possible, probably with a Launchpad mirror of the code to > maintain the packaging advantages. Basically, I think that the packagers > should use their preferred tool (Launchpad) and the devs should use their > preferred tool (git). And for that matter, I'm a fan of independent projects > choosing their own dev tools as long as they have integration with the > packaging team. > > --John > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
