Joe Gordon wrote: > [...] > To tackle this I would like to propose the idea of a periodic developer > oriented newsletter, and if we agree to go forward with this, hopefully > the foundation can help us find someone to write newsletter.
I've been discussing the idea of a "LWN" for OpenStack for some time, originally with Mark McLoughlin. For those who don't know it, LWN (lwn.net) is a source of quality tech reporting on Linux in general (and the kernel in particular). It's written by developers and tech reporters and funded by subscribers. An LWN-like OpenStack development newsletter would provide general status, dive into specific features, report on specific talks/conferences, summarize threads etc. It would be tremendously useful to the development community. The issue is, who can write such content ? It is a full-time job to produce authored content, you can't just copy (or link to) content produced elsewhere. It takes a very special kind of individual to write such content: the person has to be highly technical, able to tackle any topic, and totally connected with the OpenStack development community. That person has to be cross-project and ideally have already-built legitimacy. It's basically the kind of profile every OpenStack company is struggling and fighting to hire. And that rare person should not really want to spend that much time developing (or become CTO of a startup) but prefer to write technical articles about what happens in OpenStack development. I'm not sure such a person exists. And a newsletter actually takes more than one such person, because it's a lot of work (even if not weekly). So as much as I'd like this to happen, I'm not convinced it's worth getting excited unless we have clear indication that we would have people willing and able to pull it off. The matter of who pays the bill is secondary -- I just don't think the profile exists. For the matter, I tried to push such an idea in the past and couldn't find anyone to fit the rare profile I think is needed to succeed. All the people I could think of had other more interesting things to do. I don't think things changed -- but I'd love to be proven wrong. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ 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
