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Maish [email protected] 2, 2023
A Newbie Developer and a Frustrated Operator (Part II)
A Tale of Two OpenStack Contributors
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Background• Cisco • Global Services company• OpenStack Contributor
@maishsk• Cloud Platform Architect• Author• Active since Havana
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The Current Lay of the Land
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Active Technical Contributors• People contributing Code
User Committee• Operators
• Users• Operators
Foundation Board
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Why Frustrated??Justanotherhuman (flickr)
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Feedback Loop is Broken
Trying to get feedback from an operational perspective back into the OpenStack projects has always been challenging
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Dev vs. Ops
mattmflickr (flickr)
Influence is everythingHumongoNationphotogallery (flickr)
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Foundation Board of Directors Have influence on the commercial aspect of OpenStack
Project Team Leads (PTL) Technical direction in each project
Technical Committee Overall technical leadership for ALL OpenStack Projects
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How Operators contributeto OpenStack today
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chriszak (flickr)
OPs repositories
melswindow(flickr)
Working Groups
longitudelatitude (flickr)
OPs Tags
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Does any of this count as contributions to OpenStack?
martinjhoward2 (flickr)
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Why Does this Matter?
Operators are the ones that suffer the pain, daily.They have a different perspective on an overall solution.They should have a say in the technical directionCommunity contribution is NOT ONLY CODE!!!
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• Elections twice a year• Any foundation member can run• ATCs are the only ones allowed to vote
To date No Operator has ever been elected!
Technical committee
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• OPs contributions – fully recognized• ATC eligibility• TC elections
• UC contributions – fully recognized• ATC eligibility• TC elections
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NonATCRecognition
Future – Where Should the Community Go?
We Are All OpenStack! Are We Really????
