I’ve been leading an effort with Alan Clark to define “what is OpenStack core” for the Foundation Board. Now that I am sitting here at OSCON and celebrating OpenStack’s third birthday, I think it’s a great time to bring the general community into the discussion.
Note: If you are in Portland 7/24-25/13, we’re having a face-to-face discussion on Wednesday at 4PM PDT at “Stir” in the convention center. and Thursday @ 8PM PDT at the BoF sessions.
There is significant history behind this topic. According to Foundation governance, the Technical Committee (TC) defines which incubated projects are integrated and the Board of Directors (I am one) determines which of the integrated projects are labeled as core.
When it comes to the core label, the stakes are high.
Defining core is a convoluted topic. To make it digestible, I’m breaking it down into multiple blog posts over this week.
- Why do we care about core?
- Decomposing the problem (“the spider”)
- Insights from decomposition (healthy tensions in OpenStack)
- 12 Positions: A Common Framework
- Next Steps [post pending]
