Jay Pipes wrote: >> Openstack-common, openstack-ci, or things we gate the core product on >> (devstack, tempest) should never be part of OpenStack Core (or ever be >> incubated to become core). However they are necessary for us to produce >> OpenStack core, and require our collective attention and support. So >> they need to be blessed in some kind of "official" category meaning they >> are an central part of "OpenStack" as a development community. Maybe >> "OpenStack Companion project"... > > I don't necessarily view openstack-ci and openstack-common in the same > vein. I think openstack-common actually should be part of core since it > is an important dependency for so many of the core projects (and > becoming more so...). Openstack-ci, tempest and devstack are also > critical pieces, but they are support projects, not necessarily > dependencies. So I would categorize them as "OpenStack Supporting > Projects" or similar.
Agreed, but openstack-common probably needs to become a formal library before it can be part of "Core"... As long as it's an area to stage common stuff waiting to be copied into real projects, it's more a "supporting project". >> Another category could be necessary to describe external >> projects/plug-ins that are continuously tested with OpenStack Core as >> part of our integration testing and for which we therefore have a pretty >> good idea of how well they work with OpenStack. Choosing the right term >> is a bit more tricky here since most names are a bit overloaded. Maybe >> "OpenStack recommended project/plugin"... > > The term "recommended" comes with a lot of baggage :) I don't want > plugins to be recommended or suggested -- at least by the community; > companies should feel free to recommend or suggest whatever they feel is > best for their distro or deployment. I just want a category called > "OpenStack Extensions" (or Plugins, depending on what the > semantics-du-jour happen to be. It's certainly better :) So test-integrated projects/plugins would be called "OpenStack extensions" while stuff supposed to be compatible with openstack (but not tested by us) would be called... OpenStack-supposedly-compatible ecosystem add-ons ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
