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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 2011 10:54 p.m., "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I would advise NOT having any particular governance model for
>> Satellite projects. The projects themselves should self-govern by the
>> cultural norms of the programming language communities that are
>> relevant to the project; since Satellite projects can be anything
>> related to OpenStack -- just not the core reference implementations of
>> the OpenStack APIs -- there really shouldn't be a governance model
>> that attempts to control or limit this ecosystem. At least, that's
>> just my opinion!
>
> +1
>
> The way I see it, HybridFox  as a tool with openstack support, should be
> able to be listed without any changes (other than ensuring compatibility) .
>
> Its tools like these that add value to openstack, while never being even
> remotely close to core projects that Satellite should provide for.
>
> If CI, SCM hosting etc are provided, it should be very, very loose. If any
> attempt at control is asserted, Satellite will turn into an incubator.

Right, and we already have an incubation process that is well-defined
for projects that *do* wish to eventually be core OpenStack
projects...

-jay