I am going to make every attempt to tread lightly and ruffle no feathers, while making a detached John Q. Public observation of how things look from the outside. After that, I have a suggestion.
I have not been internally involved with OpenStack since January, however, I still hold a strong interest in the project's success and follow progress closely. From this vantage point, I have an interesting view of the project - I know a lot of the internals, yet can look critically as a public bystander. For quite a few years, I have also followed the Debian project very closely, both personally and professionally. In March, I cringed while reading some of the messages posted to a thread on the debian-devel mailing list [0] with regards to garnering interest in packaging OpenStack in Debian. A currently ongoing thread on debian-devel, about OpenStack packaging technical specifics, has had numerous messages posted by the same person, containing what I would describe as "Conduct Unbecoming" of the OpenStack project. After re-reading the OpenStack Governance Model [1] and several other supporting documents on the wiki, it is not clear to me that this behavior was/is against some policy, but it is obviously unhelpful to the progress of OpenStack. It certainly lowered my personal opinion of the writer who is actively working on the project, as well as holding a board seat. When I question the people working on a project, I question the viability of that project. I would very much like to see the long-term success of OpenStack, and accordingly, the members and board of the project, in my opinion, should make every effort to encourage that success. My suggestion: Be nice. Be helpful. OK, that was two suggestions.. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Model -- Kind regards, Michael Shuler _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
