On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:03:43AM -0700, melanie witt wrote: [...]
[Randomly jumping in on one specific point.] > Aside from that, it has always been difficult to add folks to > nova-core because of the large scope and expertise needed to approve > code across all of Nova. The complexity of Nova, and the amount of context one needs to keep in their head will only _keep_ increasing. Thus, that "difficult to add folks" becomes a self-perpetuating problem. And as we know, not every Nova contributor would want to learn the _whole_ of Nova — so, for the vanishingly small portion of people who might want to learn "all of Nova", it will be an uphill battle where the hill is only going to get steeper. Some people spend all of their time on specific subsystems of Nova (scheduler, virt drivers, etc); yet others work on unrelated projects (that don't overlap with OpenStack, but are "critical dependencies" for Nova and OpenStack) and thus have limited time for Nova, and so forth. This reminds me of the highly articulate thread[1] from Dan Berrangé in 2014. It would be educating to see how we stand today, in relation to the points raised in that thread, after four years. [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-September/044872.html [...] -- /kashyap __________________________________________________________________________ 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
