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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the start of a skeleton project:

https://github.com/openstack/openstack-skeleton

Fork away. We can use the pull requests for discussion about what's
best practice, what isn't, etc...

-jay

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brian Lamar wrote:
>> I love the idea of having an openstack-common project. However, the prospect of creating such a project is daunting and quite difficult.
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for bringing up the subject ! I think there are two types of
> benefits from this:
>
> The first is, like you said, to lower the barrier of entry for new
> projects. Having a set of proven ways of doing logging, configuration
> etc. would definitely help in spawning a new project "the OpenStack way".
>
> The second is to better establish "OpenStack" as an integrated product
> made of cooperating components. If people that want to deploy multiple
> OpenStack components end up having to learn 4 different config file
> formats and teach their tools to recognize 3 different log formats, it
> appears like the whole "OpenStack" thing is non-professional.
>
> Choosing the "best practice" way among the different projects
> implementations and making it the "common" way would allow to quickly
> reap the first type of benefits. The cost of separating it is not so large.
>
> Then we can encourage existing projects using different implementations
> to migrate to the "common" way, in order to reap the second type as
> well. There would certainly be delays and exceptions to the common rule,
> since this part would probably be a bit more painful: the cost of
> replacing a current (working) system is a lot larger.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
>
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