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["John Purrier" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

" The problem we've been having revolves around the fact that we have

dozens of developers working on Nova, with no real guidance as to the

long-term direction of the project, and teams just doing whatever the

heck they want to, without ML discussion and blueprints, and then

expecting people to just merge branches a few days before feature

freeze."

 

I have high hopes that the newly elected PTL’s will provide the guidance and leadership to get more effective in developing OpenStack projects.

 

John

 

-----Original Message-----
From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:54 PM
To: Justin Santa Barbara
Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Feature Freeze status

 

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Justin Santa Barbara

<justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No objection to a discussion during the summit, but I've been able to watch

> all of these branches and others evolve here:

>  https://code.launchpad.net/nova

> For example, when I wanted to add VNC support because my system wouldn't

> boot, it was easy for me to look at the vnc_console branch and get the

> libvirt XML magic from there.  If I was feeling brave, I could have grabbed

> the whole branch and merged it into my tree.  That feels _very_ open to me.

 

Rubbish. Open development means knowing the general directions and

specifications that people are working on by open discussions, open

blueprints/specs, and active communication between teams. I can go to

github and see how many people "forked this" (ugh.). That doesn't give

me any clue as to what people are attempting to do with the code in

the long term.

 

The problem we've been having revolves around the fact that we have

dozens of developers working on Nova, with no real guidance as to the

long-term direction of the project, and teams just doing whatever the

heck they want to, without ML discussion and blueprints, and then

expecting people to just merge branches a few days before feature

freeze.

 

> <jaypipes_troll> Just another benefit of bazaar being a centralized version

> control system, I guess </jaypipes_troll>

 

I don't know what the heck you are talking about.

 

-jay

 

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