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Requirements for new OpenStack Project applications
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Teams in OpenStack can be created as-needed and grow organically.
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By becoming an official OpenStack Project, they place
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themselves under the authority of the OpenStack Technical Committee. In return,
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their contributors get to vote in the Technical Committee election.
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Official project teams are documented in the `reference/projects.yaml` file
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from the `openstack/governance` repository. To propose an addition or a
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change, propose the corresponding `projects.yaml` file change for review.
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When considering new projects for addition, the TC will check that:
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* The project aligns with the OpenStack Mission:
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The project must have a clear and defined scope. It should either:
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* help :doc:`further the OpenStack mission <technical-vision>` by providing a
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cloud service;
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* help further the OpenStack mission by providing a service for operators of
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OpenStack clouds;
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* provide deployment and lifecycle management tooling for OpenStack;
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* provide packaging recipes to be used when deploying OpenStack;
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* provide client-side tools to enable users to interact with OpenStack; or
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* provide integration to enable adjacent systems to interoperate with
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OpenStack.
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* The project follows the OpenStack way ("the 4 opens"):
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* Open Source:
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* The proposed project uses an open source license (preferably the Apache
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v2.0 license, since it is necessary if the project wants to be used in
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an OpenStack trademark program)
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* The project must have no library dependencies which effectively restrict
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how the project may be distributed or deployed
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* Open Community:
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* The leadership is chosen by the contributors to the project
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* If the project has meetings, regular or otherwise, they should be public
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and in IRC. They should all be logged and published. Project teams have
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discretion as to where meetings are held. They can be in the project
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specific IRC channel, if it exists or one of the general meeting channels
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available. The advantage of hosting meetings in the project specific
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channel is that project participants not present can catch-up more
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easily. Whereas holding the meeting in a general channel gives extra
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visibility and makes it easier to ping other contributors.
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* The project shall provide a level and open collaboration playing field
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for all contributors. The project shall not benefit a single vendor, or
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a single vendors product offerings; nor advantage contributors from a
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single vendor organization due to access to source code, hardware,
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resources or other proprietary technology available only to those
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contributors.
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* Open Development:
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* The project uses public code reviews on the OpenStack infrastructure
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* The project has core reviewers and adopts a test-driven gate in the
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OpenStack infrastructure for changes
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* The project provides liaisons that serve as contacts for the work of
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cross-project teams in OpenStack
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* Where it makes sense, the project cooperates with existing projects
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rather than gratuitously competing or reinventing the wheel
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* Where appropriate, the project adopts technology and patterns
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used by existing OpenStack projects
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* Open Design:
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* The project direction is discussed at the Design Summit and/or on
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public forums
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* The project uses the openstack-dev ML to discuss issues
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* The project ensures basic interoperability with the rest of OpenStack:
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User-facing API services should support Keystone for discovery and
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authentication.
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* The project has an active team of one or more contributors.
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* The project participates in any goals specified by the TC, as
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defined by :ref:`release-cycle-goals`. Any existing goals that are
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not met should be prioritized and completed within the first year of
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a team joining.
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* The project meets any policies that the TC requires all projects to
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meet. For instance, the :doc:`project-testing-interface`.
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In order to do an evaluation against this criteria, the TC expects the project
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to be set up and have some history to evaluate. A few months of operating and
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following these project requirements is a rough guideline for how long
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to wait before applying to be approved by the TC.
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However, in order to facilitate adoption of existing established projects,
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candidate projects may ask the Technical Committee for an early answer on
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the question of alignment with the OpenStack Mission, before the project is
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set up on OpenStack development infrastructure.
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If the project has not followed the 4 Opens since its inception - i.e. it was
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seeded with the release of a pre-existing code base - then the TC may look for
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evidence of active engagement from the community, beyond the original authors.
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If the community did not get the opportunity to contribute to the earliest
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decisions (which are usually the hardest to change), then a lack of subsequent
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community engagement is of greater concern, as it may indicate that the project
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only meets the needs of a single organisation. Projects that have always
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followed the 4 Opens are not subject to any particular standard of community
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engagement.
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Once a project has joined OpenStack, it may create additional source code
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repositories as needed at the discretion of its Project Team Lead (PTL) without
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prior approval from the TC as long as the additional source code repositories
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fall within the scope of the approved project mission statement.
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Releases of OpenStack deliverables are handled by the OpenStack Release
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Management team through the openstack/releases repository. Official projects
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are expected to relinquish direct tagging (and branch creation) rights in
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their Gerrit ACLs once their release jobs are functional.
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Official project teams are expected to participate in all `elections`_ held
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after the team is accepted as official, regardless of how recently the team
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leadership may have been established.
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.. _elections: https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/open-community.html#technical-committee-and-ptl-elections
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