-----Original Message----- From: Chris Friesen <chris.frie...@windriver.com> Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Date: March 20, 2017 at 11:39:38 To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry] Moving Gnocchi out
> On 03/20/2017 10:10 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > >> I really don't understand why the Telemetry team insists in being > >> release-independent, out of big tent and such, when the reality is that > >> all of released Telemetry components are *very tightly* bound to a > >> specific versions of OpenStack. IMO, it doesn't make sense upstream, or > >> downstream of Telemetry. > > > > This simply isn't the case with gnocchi. Gnocchi is an independent > > timeseries, metrics and resources data service that _happens_ to > > work with OpenStack. > > > > By making it independent of OpenStack, its ability to draw > > contribution and engagement from people outside the OpenStack > > community increases. As a result it can become a better tool for > > more people, including OpenStack people. Not all, or even many, of > > the OpenStack projects are like that, but gnocchi is. More eyes, > > less bugs, right? > > I'm curious why being independent of OpenStack would make it more attractive. > > Is the perception that requiring people to sign the Contributor Agreement is > holding back external contribution? Or is it just that the mere idea of it > being an OpenStack project is discouraging people from getting involved? > > Just as an example, if I want to get involved with libvirt because I have an > itch to scratch the fact that it's basically a RedHat project isn't going to > turn me off... Contributing to OpenStack is intimidating, if not utterly discouraging, to people unfamiliar with CLAs and Gerrit. There's a lot of process that goes into contributing. Moving this to a friendlier (if not inferior) developer platform makes sense if there is interest from companies not interested in participating in the OpenStack community. -- Ian Cordasco __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
