OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 16-22

giantpanda

Summaries

Gerrit emails are slow, because it’s sending one at a time
- Upstream bug
- Patch to apply
Web UI File Editor
- Behaving oddly. Might be because of API time outs. Gertty is also having reported problems.
Message

Since the doc-migration, people have been having questions regarding the usage of “Install Tutorial” and “Install Guide” in the OpenStack manuals repository and project specific repos.
- The documentation team agrees this should be consistent.
- Tutorial’s literal translation is “paper, book, film, or computer program that provide practical information about a specific subject.”
From PTG discussions, a distinction made was installation provides one of many possible ways to install the components.
Consistency is more important than bike shedding over the name.
- Industry wise, what’s the trend?
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Previous thread from 2016 on this
Various contributors are doing many patches that are typo, style changes.
- It has been expressed that this can cause CI resource starvation.
TC created the Top 5 help wanted to help contributors know where the community needs the most identified help.
This is a social issue, not a technical issue. Arguing about what is useful and what isn’t is probably not worth the effort here.
Communication and education is probably the best solution here. For repeated offenders, off-list email could be fine to make sure the communication is clear. Communicating this in the new contributor portal and Upstream Institute would be helpful.
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