On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:51:10PM -0400, Zane Bitter wrote: > (Reminder: we are in the TC election campaigning period, and we all have the > opportunity to question the candidates. The campaigning period ends on > Saturday, so make with the questions.) > > > In my head, I have a mental picture of who I'm building OpenStack for. When > I'm making design decisions I try to think about how it will affect these > hypothetical near-future users. By 'users' here I mean end-users, the actual > consumers of OpenStack APIs. What will it enable them to do? What will they > have to work around? I think we probably all do this, at least > subconsciously. (Free tip: try doing it consciously.) > > So my question to the TC candidates (and incumbent TC members, or anyone > else, if they want to answer) is: what does the hypothetical OpenStack user > that is top-of-mind in your head look like? Who are _you_ building OpenStack > for? > For me, my 'OpenStack user' is the developers of the OpenStack project. While a developer might not be directly consuming the OpenStack API, the tooling they use to contribute to OpenStack does. This is the main reason why I enjoy working on the Project Infrastructure team.
It provides a feedback loop back into the project, to take real world issues with OpenStack (eg: scaling, multi-cloud, python clients, APIs, you name it) and hopefully make themself back into the hands of developers. It doesn't always work out that way, but is still a great process to have. > There's a description of mine in this email, as an example: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-October/123312.html > > To be clear, for me at least there's only one wrong answer ("person who > needs somewhere to run their IRC bouncer"). What's important in my opinion > is that we have a bunch of people with *different* answers on the TC, > because I think that will lead to better discussion and hopefully better > decisions. > > Discuss. > > cheers, > Zane. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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
