Well said John. -joe
On Oct 28, 2011, at 8:26 AM, John Dickinson wrote: > On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> Swift had the advantage of starting out as a closed source project that >> only had to serve a single master, and thus didn't need external >> orchestration to keep it on track. Nova, OTOH, as a community development >> effort, essentially had to be all things to all people, which is unworkable; >> hence the need for some up-front design to keep some sort of focus to the >> development. The problem is that this inevitably descends into bikeshedding, >> which has been prominently on display in this thread. > > I absolutely do not want to compare different openstack projects. That all > too often is perceived as an "us vs them", and I want to avoid that > altogether. Yes, nova and swift and glance and keystone and horizon are > different. My point from earlier is that because the projects are different > (in scope, users, and dev lifecycle), statements like "all openstack projects > need to do X" are either meaningless or unmanageable. > > Openstack is a collection if different parts that should work together, but > that doesn't mean that there are one size fits all solutions to issues that > come up. These discussions around the One True Way to do things are a > distraction at best. If you have 2 people arguing about the best way for an > aspect of a particular project should work, have them both code it up (or > write the docs or design the UI or whatever) and then compare and choose the > best implementation. Bikeshedding (along with complaining about bikeshedding > [meta!]) feels satisfying, but it's a hollow pursuit that distracts from > getting things done. > > --John_______________________________________________ > 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
