In the TSC meeting, Manuel voiced a pretty important ask that might help the 
discussion moving forward: "Cloud we create a table that compares OPNFV today 
with the proposed future", assuming that we'd evolve along the path that Bin 
started to articulate. The table format is to make things more concrete and 
could help us in a second step to articulate where we'd want to focus on moving 
forward. This includes which additional work areas we'd like to inspire 
projects to work on (or even new projects to be created for). I've tried to 
capture the current discussion and proposal into a table below (see also 
attached in case groups.io messes up the formatting and color) - feel free to 
add/evolve/change per your understanding - the below is just my reading of 
Bin's deck.



Thoughts?



Thanks, Frank





OPNFV today


Potential Evolution (changes in blue)


Design - Outline requirements; Design NFV components and solution stacks


Design - Outline requirements; Design NFV components and solution stacks; Focus 
on cloud native and edge use cases.


Create - Create new and/or enhance components (most often by working upstream) 
to meet the design/requirements


Create - Create new and/or enhance components (most often by working upstream) 
to meet the design/requirements.


Compose - Follow the design and create a running system from a set of components


Compose - Follow the design and create a running system from a set of components


Deploy - Install and run the composed system on a set of labs worldwide. This 
includes enhancement and creation of specific test and deployment tools 
(installers, XCI,..).


Deploy - Install and run the composed system on a set of labs worldwide. This 
includes enhancement and creation of specific test and deployment tools 
(installers, XCI,..).


Test - Test the installation, i.e. running system that represents an NFV 
solution stack; as well as test specific aspects of a system. This includes 
creation and enhancement of specific test and deployment tools. In addition, 
this includes tooling for verification (OVP/CVP).


Test - Test the installation, i.e. running system that represents an NFV 
solution stack; as well as test specific aspects of a system. This includes 
creation and enhancement of specific test and deployment tools. In addition, 
this includes tooling for verification (OVP/CVP).
Tool suite: Compose individual tools into a tool suite.


Iterate/Automate - Create guidelines and tooling for automated deployment, 
testing, and test-results reporting.


Iterate/Automate - Create guidelines and tooling for automated deployment, 
testing, and test-results reporting.
Create a "DevOps" platform: Tooling to automatically compose the entire DevOps 
workflow using cloud services. (Require migration from DIY hosted 
labs/git/gerrit/Jenkins to cloud services like packet.net, github, circleCI, ..)


Operate - Operate a set of servers/labs and services (git, gerrit, jenkins,..). 
Offer Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS).


Operate - Operate a set of servers/labs and services (git, gerrit, jenkins,..). 
Offer Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS).



OPNFV Release artifacts:

  *   Scenarios - installable NFV solution stacks (NFVI);
"NFVI Platform"
  *   Tools (mostly test/operations tools)
  *   OVP/CVP solution


OPNFV Release artifacts:

  *   Scenarios - installable NFV solution stacks (NFVI);
streamlined, i.e. fewer scenarios; increased focus on CN and edge; "NFVI 
Platform"
  *   Packaged testing/operations tool suite
  *   OVP/CVP solution
  *   "DevOps Platform"






-----Original Message-----
From: opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org <opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org> On Behalf Of Georg 
Kunz
Sent: Dienstag, 27. November 2018 18:46
To: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com>; Tim Irnich <tim.irn...@suse.com>; Trevor Bramwell 
<tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: AshYoung <a...@cachengo.com>; opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org; 
opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org; Manuel Buil <mb...@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan



Hi Bin,

Hi all,



Due to the lively discussions during today's TSC call, the IRC minutes are a 
little light [1]. However, I have to voice my concern that I cannot agree with 
the following items:



[.]

14:41:31 <bh526r> #info Vote for strategy on Tuesday Dec 4

14:42:01 <bh526r> #info Hopefully everyone will agree

14:43:12 <bh526r> #info We need a decision on Dec 4 in order to trigger 
following actions

14:43:35 <dmcbride> #topic budget discussion

14:43:45 <bh526r> #info Stalemate is not an option [.]



I don't understand why "we need a decision by Dec 4 in order to trigger 
actions". I seriously appreciate your ambition to move this forward quickly as 
the main intention is to strengthen OPNFV's position. However, I also don't see 
why concrete actions are being blocked if there is no decision on Dec 4.



A core value of open source communities is that those who are interested in a 
particular topic, naturally tend to form a group which jointly works towards a 
common goal. In our concrete scenario, we could i) form a devops working group 
which works on fleshing out the details of the proposal, and/or ii) find a 
group of interested people prototyping some of the "cloud-based devops 
methodologies. None of such activities would be considered a stalemate. The 
results of such _community-driven_ activities would help to convince the entire 
community. A very successful example in this regard is XCI, which was driven by 
a small group of people.



Certainly, it is the job of all TSC members to actively participate in the 
strategy definition and discussion and I urge everybody to do so. An open 
source community works best if it is driven by personal motivation. For sure it 
does not work well if deadlines for decisions about unclear directions are put 
on a community without a clear understanding why.





That said, my current view on the proposal is the following: it broadens the 
scope of the community (by a currently undefined amount), i.e., it adds on top 
of what we are currently doing. I do not think that this is the right approach 
given shrinking amounts of resources in the community - both in terms of 
developers and funding. I believe we need to instead discuss, as an 
alternative, if we should and can focus on a very specific, well-defined and 
sought-after contribution to the ecosystem. I mentioned this in a previous 
email already: based on input from stakeholders, I would argue for 
strengthening the reference platform (as defined through comprehensive tests) 
and the corresponding compliance program. This is my perspective for sure - 
others might disagree and I'd love to discuss better proposals.



[1] 
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2018/opnfv-meeting.2018-11-27-13.54.log.txt



Best regards

Georg



-----Original Message-----

From: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com<mailto:bh5...@att.com>>

Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 2:22 PM

To: Tim Irnich <tim.irn...@suse.com<mailto:tim.irn...@suse.com>>; Trevor 
Bramwell <tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org<mailto:tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org>>

Cc: AshYoung <a...@cachengo.com<mailto:a...@cachengo.com>>; Georg Kunz 
<georg.k...@ericsson.com<mailto:georg.k...@ericsson.com>>; 
opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org>; 
opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>; Manuel Buil 
<mb...@suse.com<mailto:mb...@suse.com>>

Subject: RE: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan



Thank you for pointing out one possibility based on the assumption that the 
same resources will do both work. The assumption itself may not be true because 
there will be different resources to do different work in different projects 
(which is the reality today).



So the resource availability is a key factor to consider when we approve the 
new projects subsequently after we plan the product portfolio. When we have 
dedicated resources to do each job, such possibility will be unlikely to happen.



Thanks

Bin



-----Original Message-----

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<opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>> On Behalf Of Tim 
Irnich

Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 11:59 PM

To: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com<mailto:bh5...@att.com>>; Trevor Bramwell 
<tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org<mailto:tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org>>

Cc: AshYoung <a...@cachengo.com<mailto:a...@cachengo.com>>; Georg Kunz 
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opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org>; 
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Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan



The way I understand Trevor's concern is that if we start spending more time on 
packaging tools and supporting their usage downstream, there will be less time 
for doing integration work and driving upstream production readiness. Which is 
something I'm concerned about too.



Pretending that this problem doesn't exist isn't helpful IMHO.



Tim



On 11/27/18 2:11 AM, HU, BIN wrote:

> Trevor,

>

> Thank you for you clarifying it.

>

> The integration work is explicitly mentioned to be continued in 3rd bullet on 
> slide #13 of v0.8. I am attaching it again just in case you missed it. That 
> work will continue as usual. All related bug fixes and new features in 
> upstream will continue as usual too. So I am not sure why it is a concern 
> here.

>

> Regarding the concern of spending our time to help people use our tools, 
> isn't it the usual business we are supposed to do today? For example, after 
> we release Gambia, we are supposed to help people use it, right? There is a 
> "opnfv-user" mailing list for this purpose. There isn't much traffic though. 
> It means either everyone is an expert or no one is interested in using our 
> release. I wish it was because everyone is an expert, though the reality 
> might be opposite.

>

> Recently, someone asked me how to run Yardstick on Dovetail. Thanks Georg for 
> sharing the docs. I was really excited because finally someone is interested 
> in using our tool. So getting user to use our tools is exactly what we want, 
> right? Without users, I don't know how to show others our value, frankly.

>

> So IMHO, spending our time to help user isn't a concern at all. It is what we 
> need. And there is no difference of supporting users, e.g. use OpenStack by 
> OpenStack community, use ODL by ODL community. Etc.

>

> If there is no user to support, we are in trouble because our deliverables 
> has no value.

>

> Let me know what you think, and if you still have concerns.

>

> Thank you

> Bin

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org> 
> <opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>> On Behalf

> Of Trevor Bramwell

> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 4:54 PM

> To: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com<mailto:bh5...@att.com>>

> Cc: Tim Irnich <tim.irn...@suse.com<mailto:tim.irn...@suse.com>>; AshYoung 
> <a...@cachengo.com<mailto:a...@cachengo.com>>;

> Georg Kunz <georg.k...@ericsson.com<mailto:georg.k...@ericsson.com>>; Manuel 
> Buil <mb...@suse.com<mailto:mb...@suse.com>>;

> opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org>;
>  opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>

> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan

>

> Hi Bin,

>

> Perhaps 'integrated' is a better word here than 'supported'. A lot of the 
> work in OPNFV involves integrating many of these upstream components which in 
> turn exposes bugs, or creates features that enable an NFV use case.

>

> I'm quite terrible with examples, but I'm sure others from the community have 
> time.

>

> Regards,

> Trevor Bramwell

>

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:26:33AM +0000, HU, BIN wrote:

>> Trevor,

>>

>> Thank you for your question.

>>

>> Can you give more details and examples of "doing what we're best at, which 
>> is getting NFV supported by upstream projects."?

>>

>> Thank you

>> Bin

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Trevor Bramwell 
>> <tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org<mailto:tbramw...@linuxfoundation.org>>

>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 4:17 PM

>> To: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com<mailto:bh5...@att.com>>

>> Cc: Tim Irnich <tim.irn...@suse.com<mailto:tim.irn...@suse.com>>; AshYoung 
>> <a...@cachengo.com<mailto:a...@cachengo.com>>;

>> Georg Kunz <georg.k...@ericsson.com<mailto:georg.k...@ericsson.com>>; Manuel 
>> Buil <mb...@suse.com<mailto:mb...@suse.com>>;

>> opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org>;
>>  opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>

>> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan

>>

>> Hi Bin,

>>

>> I'm still unclear on the first point: "Enabling and automating stakeholders' 
>> business transformation into DevOps organization"

>>

>> From what I've read it seems like the suggestion is to package up everything 
>> that makes up OPNFV (Platform, CI/CD piplines, testing / verification / 
>> certification tools, etc.) and turn that into something that can be deployed 
>> by a company internally.

>>

>> Is that what is being suggested here, or something else? And if so I'd be 
>> concerned that we'd actually be reducing companies incentive to be involved, 
>> or more of our time would be spent trying to support people using the tool 
>> then doing what we're best at, which is getting NFV supported by upstream 
>> projects.

>>

>> Regards,

>> Trevor Bramwell

>>

>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:04:57PM +0000, HU, BIN wrote:

>>> Tim,

>>>

>>> Not sure if you get a chance to follow the most recent discussion.

>>>

>>> The ask is merely to agree on a strategy (i.e. the vision and direction) 
>>> outlined on Slide #13, supported by the steps of actions summarized on 
>>> slide #16. See attached the most recent update v0.8.

>>>

>>> Please let me know if there is anything unclear here.

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>> Bin

>>>

>>> -----Original Message-----

>>> From: opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org> 
>>> <opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>> On

>>> Behalf Of Tim Irnich

>>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 12:57 PM

>>> To: HU, BIN <bh5...@att.com<mailto:bh5...@att.com>>; AshYoung 
>>> <a...@cachengo.com<mailto:a...@cachengo.com>>; Georg

>>> Kunz <georg.k...@ericsson.com<mailto:georg.k...@ericsson.com>>; Manuel Buil 
>>> <mb...@suse.com<mailto:mb...@suse.com>>

>>> Cc: 
>>> opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-tech-discuss@lists.opnfv.org>;
>>>  opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org<mailto:opnfv-...@lists.opnfv.org>

>>> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] Discussion of OPNFV Strategic Plan

>>>

>>> On 11/26/18 4:40 PM, HU, BIN wrote:

>>>>

>>>> If I understand correctly, Point #1 and #3 are actually the same question, 
>>>> i.e. what will we do in the next step?

>>>

>>> No, I'm rather suggesting to make sure our understanding is complete before 
>>> we proceed. We clearly do not yet sufficiently understand what exactly the 
>>> decision is you're asking us to take, so we cannot proceed.

>>> Let's continue to work on this until we have the required clarity, and then 
>>> decide.

>>>

>>> Regards, Tim

>>>

>>

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