Big +1 ________________________________________ From: Jay Pipes [jaypi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:18 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Marconi][TC] Withdraw graduation request
This is a very mature stance and well-written email. Thanks, Flavio and all of the Marconi team for having thick skin and responding to the various issues professionally. Cheers, -jay On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 23:59 +0100, Flavio Percoco wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm sending this email on behalf of Marconi's team. > > As you already know, we submitted our graduation request a couple of > weeks ago and the meeting was held on Tuesday, March 18th. During the > meeting very important questions and issues were raised that made > us think and analyse our current situation and re-think about what > the best for OpenStack and Marconi would be in this very moment. > > After some considerations, we've reached the conclusion that this is > probably not the right time for this project to graduate and that > it'll be fruitful for the project and the OpenStack community if we > take another development cycle before coming out from incubation. Here > are some things we took under consideration: > > 1. It's still not clear to the overall community what the goals of > the project are. It is not fair for Marconi as a project nor for > OpenStack as a community to move forward with this integration when > there are still open questions about the project goals. > > 2. Some critical issues came out of our attempt to have a gate job. > For the team, the project and the community this is a very critical > point. We've managed to have the gate working but we're still not > happy with the results. > > 3. The drivers currently supported by the project don't cover some > important cases related to deploying it. One of them solves a > licensing issue but introduces a scale issue whereas the other one > solves the scale issue and introduces a licensing issue. Moreover, > these drivers have created quite a confusion with regards to what the > project goal's are too. > > 4. We've seen the value - and believe in it - of OpenStack's > incubation period. During this period, the project has gained > maturity in its API, supported drivers and integration with the > overall community. > > 5. Several important questions were brought up in the recent ML > discussions. These questions take time, effort but also represent a > key point in the support, development and integration of the project > with the rest of OpenStack. We'd like to dedicate to this questions > the time they deserve. > > 6. There are still some open questions in the OpenStack community > related to the graduation requirements and the required supported > technologies of integrated projects. > > Based on the aforementioned points, the team would like to withdraw > the graduation request and remain an incubated project for one > more development cycle. > > During the upcoming months, the team will focus on solving the issues > that arose as part of last Tuesday's meeting. If possible, we would > like to request a meeting where we can discuss with the TC - and > whoever wants to participate - a set of *most pressing issues* that > should be solved before requesting another graduation meeting. The > team will be focused on solving those issues and other issues down > that road. > > Although the team believes in the project's technical maturity, we think > this is what is best for OpenStack and the project itself > community-wise. The open questions are way too important for the team > and the community and they shouldn't be ignored nor rushed. > > I'd also like to thank the team and the overall community. The team > for its hard work during the last cycle and the community for being there > and providing such important feedback in this process. We look forward > to see Marconi graduating from incubation. > > Bests, > Marconi's team. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
