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The previous 'Help Most Needed' list was presenting information in a way that focused on the desires of the community rather than the value that sponsoring organisations can generate - for both themselves and the commons. Replace the list with a new list of 'Upstream Investment Opportunities', and a process to keep them current by removing them after they have been on the list for between 6 months and a year, so that the submitter is forced to reaffirm their interest and the TC is forced to re-evaluate the relevancy. Since the current 'Help Most Needed' entries are generally not written in a style emphasising the value to a business of investing, the initial list is empty and will be filled as the TC evaluates business cases according to its new criteria and understanding of the needs of potential contributing organisations. To preserve the existing information, the contents of the current 'Help Most Needed' list appear as the 2018 upstream investment opportunites. Links to the old list will temporarily redirect here until such time as the new entries are in place, at which point we can redirect to the main page with the latest index. Change-Id: I65fef701dc2e3d50aa84e7ee79b068c78346c846
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Glance Contributors
Description
Glance is a service to manage disk images for OpenStack clouds. It was one of the first projects developed in the OpenStack ecosystem. Nearly every OpenStack deployment contains a Glance service. Without Glance, Nova cannot create servers.
Glance is looking for new contributors who would be willing to provide reviews, to work on bugs, or to work on new features. Glance has welcomed interns, junior developers, and more senior developers. In every case, it is a great way to grow and contribute to OpenStack.
Value
Maintenance Costs
Glance is a critical service in OpenStack. Contributions to the future of the image registry are essential to the stability of OpenStack. More importantly, Glance is not feature-complete. There is significant technical debt that needs to be taken care of and several features to implement.
Consistency
The OpenStack community continues to evolve, and this evolution requires large cross-project initiatives. Furthermore, users and operators expect consistency across the OpenStack platform. Examples from recent history include OpenStack-wide support for Python 3 and easing operator pain by moving policy configuration into code. Ensuring Glance stays up-to-date with these initiatives is imperative in reducing operational costs, complexity, and user frustration.
Contact
Interested? Join the Glance IRC channel (#openstack-glance) or reach out to the OpenStack discuss mailing list using the [glance] tag.