On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2015 06:20 AM, Joe Gordon wrote: > >> One of the stated problems the 'big tent' is supposed to solve is: >> >> 'The binary nature of the integrated release results in projects outside >> the integrated release failing to get the recognition they deserve. >> "Non-official" projects are second- or third-class citizens which can't >> get development resources. Alternative solutions can't emerge in the >> shadow of the blessed approach. Becoming part of the integrated release, >> which was originally designed to be a technical decision, quickly became >> a life-or-death question for new projects, and a political/community >> minefield.' [0] >> >> Meaning projects should see an uptick in development once they drop >> their second-class citizenship and join OpenStack. Now that we have been >> living in the world of the big tent for several months now, we can see >> if this claim is true. >> >> Below is a list of the first few few projects to join OpenStack after >> the big tent, All of which have now been part of OpenStack for at least >> two months.[1] >> >> * Mangum - Tue Mar 24 20:17:36 2015 >> * Murano - Tue Mar 24 20:48:25 2015 >> * Congress - Tue Mar 31 20:24:04 2015 >> * Rally - Tue Apr 7 21:25:53 2015 >> >> When looking at stackalytics [2] for each project, we don't see any >> noticeably change in number of reviews, contributors, or number of >> commits from before and after each project joined OpenStack. >> >> So what does this mean? At least in the short term moving from >> Stackforge to OpenStack does not result in an increase in development >> resources (too early to know about the long term). One of the three >> reasons for the big tent appears to be unfounded, but the other two >> reasons hold. >> > > You have not given enough time to see the effects of the Big Tent, IMHO. > Lots of folks in the corporate world just found out about it at the design > summit, frankly. As I responded in a different email, I tend to agree with you. Although there are some clear trends towards new contributing companies already. > > > > The only thing I think this information changes is what > >> peoples expectations should be when applying to join OpenStack. >> > > What is your assumption of what people's expectations are when applying to > join OpenStack? > That joining OpenStack will result in more companies contributing to a given project. > Best, > -jay > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 >
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