Re: [opensuse-web] Why PgConf US chose OSEM

Stella Rouzi (differentreality) wrote:

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

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Folks,

Just thought I would share:

http://blog.pgconf.us/2017/01/an-investment-in-future-why-pgconfus.html

Thanks for sharing :D

Indeed, and even more thanks for your decision! Recently the OpenStack community was in a similar position. I suggested they consider OSEM as a possible solution. Sadly (for me anyway) they decided to write something from scratch, which still has numerous issues, and it's not clear to me how they are going to attract a community of developers to the project from outside the OpenStack ecosystem. I see this pattern of wheel-reinvention and "competition vs. collaboration" time and time again, in so many areas of FL/OSS. You only have to look at the number of unmerged forks in any popular repository on github to see this phenomenon. Here's one of countless examples: https://github.com/sosedoff/capistrano-unicorn/network It's such a frustrating waste of effort; the various communities would all be so much stronger if they didn't fragment so much. Ah well. Human nature, I suppose. Sorry to let off steam - I guess I've had a blog post on this brewing for quite some time. </rant> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org