Well, if the goal is to create a marketplace for openstack compatible products... meaning a place to find solutions built on and around openstack core (monetization is not my point)... then great... if the point is to aggregate ephemera then that seems like simply a directory/repository of individual code/configuration chunks that smacks more of utilities for dealing with the core in which case: blah.
Like any platform, openstack needs an easy way to demonstrate its value in an ecosystem and a repository for value adding applications would help with that. And yes... there's an app for that. On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: >> What benefits does an openstack-satellite project bring? Other than all >> using some openstack component, what do these projects have in common that >> justifies grouping them? For example, I know of many open source projects >> that use swift (swauth, slogging, cyberduck, all the rackspace language >> bindings, several iOS apps, a few dashboards), and I can't seem to see why >> they would benefit by being grouped into one umbrella. > > That's the whole point, John... *you* know which open source projects > use swift (because you're a contributor to Swift). I wouldn't have any > clue what projects use Swift unless I was a contributor to OpenStack. > There is no place to go to see the variety of projects that are being > built to *consume* OpenStack APIs, to extend OpenStack projects, to > implement OpenStack APIs in different languages or using different > backends/algorithms, etc. > > The point of the satellite project, as I understand the proposal, is > to have a place for the broader community (i.e. not Python core > project developers) to upload code and configuration snippets, > advertise alternate implementations, and in general have a place to > search the ecosystem of OpenStack stuff. What the could be wrong with > that? > > About 5 years ago, I built MySQL Forge (http://forge.mysql.com/) for > similar purposes -- as a place for the MySQL project ecosystem to > live, big or small projects, code snippets, etc. That interface is > admittedly dated and needs work to prevent things like spam, but then > again, so does our wiki! The point is that not everyone is a) a Python > developer, b) cares about Python development, c) wants or needs to > contribute at all. I think it's a good idea to have a place where > people can go "shop the OpenStack bazaar" so to speak... :) > > -jay > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
