+1, primarily by process of elimination. The other options seem either too permissive or too strict. I think our job is to provide a way for the ecosystem to develop and give people a place and category for these projects to live, but not to micromanage every piece of the ecosystem.
Devin On May 2, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Joshua McKenty wrote: > I'm a fan of c), where the "officialness" is tied to a committed organization > or team that is keeping the code up-to-date and tested. I'd also be a fan of > making that a per-release designation, with an easy renewal if the commitment > is still in place. > > Generally, a smaller core with a "supported" status for satellite projects is > my favorite model, for much of OpenStack development. > > -- > Joshua McKenty, CEO > Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. > w: (650) 24-CLOUD > m: (650) 283-6846 > http://www.pistoncloud.com > > "Oh, Westley, we'll never survive!" > "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has." > > On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > >> We discussed the policy on third party apis this week at the PPB meeting. We >> decided to take it to the mailing list for discussion so we can get to some >> reasonable things to vote on in next weeks meeting. >> >> tl; dr >> >> How do third party apis fit in OpenStack? >> >> Background >> >> This was inspired by the current proposals for OCCI and CDMI into nova and >> swift and the upcoming work and proposals for CIMI for nova. The basic >> question is: does this code belong in the core repositories and if not, >> where does it go. I see a number of groups with interest in this. I'm going >> to outline the major players and give my (biased) opinion on what they want >> >> a) Core Developers: would prefer to have these apis outside of core. It is >> already a burden to maintain the existing apis, so separating these into >> separate projects would be beneficial. >> >> b) Standards Bodies/Developers: would prefer to have some >> recognition/discoverability for the new apis, currently the only path >> forward is to be in core, so they are pushing to be included, but they might >> be ok with some other type of recognition. >> >> c) Deployers/Distributors: want an easy way to know that these external >> plugins work well. This can be accomplished by testing/etc. Probably don't >> really care too much about the new apis unless they get specific customer >> requests >> >> d) Users: some users (scientific community) would love to have access to >> these other apis. From a user perspective, the more apis the better, as >> long as they are stable and all work. >> >> Current Proposals >> >> a) ppb doesn't care and the projects decide individually >> >> b) third party apis are not part of openstack core, and we focus on building >> a strong ecosystem where these apis could exist as proxies or external >> plugins. It is up to deployers to decide which ecosystem projects to include >> in their distributions >> >> c) just like b, but there is additionally a process by which these third >> party tools could become 'official' in some sense or be 'recommended' for >> inclusion by the distros. >> >> d) third party standards are vetted for inclusion by the ppb and are added >> to core projects assuming they can pass certain testing requirements >> >> e) we have our own api, so we shouldn't be encouraging 3rd party apis at >> all. Tney are on their own. >> >> f) ??? >> >> Please discuss, >> Vish >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
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