Here's the start of a skeleton project: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-skeleton
Fork away. We can use the pull requests for discussion about what's best practice, what isn't, etc... -jay On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thierry Carrez <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Lamar wrote: >> I love the idea of having an openstack-common project. However, the prospect >> of creating such a project is daunting and quite difficult. >> [...] > > Thanks for bringing up the subject ! I think there are two types of > benefits from this: > > The first is, like you said, to lower the barrier of entry for new > projects. Having a set of proven ways of doing logging, configuration > etc. would definitely help in spawning a new project "the OpenStack way". > > The second is to better establish "OpenStack" as an integrated product > made of cooperating components. If people that want to deploy multiple > OpenStack components end up having to learn 4 different config file > formats and teach their tools to recognize 3 different log formats, it > appears like the whole "OpenStack" thing is non-professional. > > Choosing the "best practice" way among the different projects > implementations and making it the "common" way would allow to quickly > reap the first type of benefits. The cost of separating it is not so large. > > Then we can encourage existing projects using different implementations > to migrate to the "common" way, in order to reap the second type as > well. There would certainly be delays and exceptions to the common rule, > since this part would probably be a bit more painful: the cost of > replacing a current (working) system is a lot larger. > > Cheers, > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Release Manager, OpenStack > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
