Governance/InteropWG
This Committee was formed during the OpenStack Ice House Summit in Hong Kong by Board Resolution on 11/4.
DefCore sets base requirements by defining 1) capabilities, 2) code and 3) must-pass tests for all OpenStack products. This definition uses community resources and involvement to drive interoperability by creating the minimum standards for products labeled "OpenStack."
Our mission is to define "OpenStack Core" as chartered by the by-laws.
Contents
Important Artifacts
- Terms Definition
- 10 Core Principles (board approved Hong Kong Summit)
- Capability Levels: Component and Platform (board approved October 2014)
- 12 Scoring Criteria (board approved Atlanta Summit)
- 10 Designed Sections Principles (board approved December 2014)
- DefCore Governance:
- DefCore Process
- Capabilities & Sections
Objective / Scope
The DefCore charter is around how the OpenStack brand is applied for commercial uses. Initially, this focus is on "what is core" and sustaining that definition over time. The scope will likely expand since brand is an ongoing concern related to specialized marks and other use cases.
There are three ways in which the community uses the OpenStack brand including referring to projects.
- General community use of the mark
- Project-specific use associated with development activity
- DefCore-governed commercial use
While the top two of these uses are out of scope for DefCore, the committee has a need to participate in the discussion to ensure consistent and clear use.
How to Engage?
- Join the defcore-committee list
- Join #openstack-defcore on Freenode IRC
- Follow the code at https://github.com/openstack/defcore
- Join our weekly meetings
- Learn the rules for submitting changes
Meetings
Meeting times and channels can be found on the official OpenStack IRC meeting list. An ICS file of all OpenStack meetings is also available.
DefCore Flag Cycle Process/Capabilities Combined Meetings:
- Ring.1 - November 4, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad
- Flag.Tokyo - October 28, 2015 at 05:00 UTC in person at the OpenStack Summit: Etherpad
- Flag.19 - October 14, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.18 - October 7, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.17 - September 30, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.16 - September 23, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4 but mostly on join.me (special session for scoring discussions): Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.15 - September 16, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.14 - September 9, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4 but mostly on join.me (special session for scoring discussions): Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.13 - September 2, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.12 - August 26, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4:Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.11 - August 19, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4:Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.10 - August 12, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4:Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- No meeting July 29/August 5 due to DefCore midcycle meetup in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Flag.9 - July 22, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4:Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.8 - July 15, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4:Etherpad | Minutes | Munutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.7 - July 8, 2015 at 01:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.6 - July 1, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.5 - June 24, 2015 at 01:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.4 - June 17, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.3 - June 10, 2015 at 01:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.2 - June 3, 2015 at 15:00 UTC on #openstack-meeting-4: Etherpad | Minutes | Minutes (text) | Logs
- Flag.1 - May 20, 2015 at OpenStack Summit: Etherpad
Meeting information (etherpads, etc) from past cycles can be found here.
Process Cycles
Defining OpenStack Core is a long term process and we are doing the work in progressive cycles. For reference, we have named the cycles. This helps describe concrete deliverables for a cycle while allowing discussion of the broader long term issues. For example, we may say that "item X is important to DefCore but out of scope for Elephant." We have found that this approach to breaking down the problem is necessary to maintain community consensus because we are taking smaller bites of the larger challenge (aka eating the elephant).
See Process Cycles
The current cycle is named the Scale Cycle.
Current Committee Participants
Current Participants
- Rob Hirschfeld (board member, co-chair)
- Egle Sigler (board member, co-chair)
- Will Auld
- Carol Barrett
- Vince Brunssen
- Kevin Carter
- Catherine Diep
- Rocky Grober
- Chris Hoge
- Chris Lee
- Van Lindberg (board member)
- Jim Meyer
- Adrian Otto
- Sean Roberts
- Shamail Tahir
- Mark T. Voelker
- Alan Clark