Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2016-11-29 21:10:35 +0000: > On 2016-11-29 21:00:06 +0000 (+0000), Sam Betts (sambetts) wrote: > [...] > > Additionally, being “official” indicates a level of maturity which > > benefits us as a project by improving the public perception of our > > drivers, and also indicates to OpenStack users that OpenStack > > itself is mature and has support for existing technologies and > > physical equipment out of the box. We want to make the Cisco > > drivers visible/discoverable so that operators evaluating > > OpenStack for their use cases will easily be able to know if a > > driver for their equipment exists without digging around in git > > repos. > > > > In our current state (not an official project or under an official > > project) we can’t publish our existence, releases or docs to any > > official location on *.openstack.org which makes it difficult for > > those new to OpenStack to know we exist, or find any information > > on how to deploy/use Cisco equipment with OpenStack. > > [Please trim quoted material and avoid top-posting.] > > Would better visibility for > https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/drivers/ (perhaps with a more > navigable UI and updated for the latest release) address those > concerns? I absolutely want service teams to have a mechanism by > which they can list known working/supported drivers in an > official-looking place so vendors can point their customers at that. > > I also feel very strongly that those alone would be terrible reasons > to consider becoming an official project team under the governance > of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Our project governance is not > intended as a means of marketing and advertising products, and I'm > going to do my best to make sure that it's extremely ineffective at > that for any companies who try to (ab)use it to those ends.
This struck me as overly aggressive. Open Source is a social model, and if a commercial entity would like to participate in that social model in good faith, I think that's beneficial to everyone else. Throwing up a "not for commercial use" barrier to their participation will just discourage them and others from investing more. __________________________________________________________________________ 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
