A Bear Flag Revolt Brews and “Grizzly” Wins As The Name For The Next OpenStack Release
Oh yeah – the bear is in the house. The Bear revolt won. OpenStack’s next release will go by the name “Grizzly.” I love this story. OpenStack is the open cloud effort for organizations to build their own clouds. The fast growing organization has since its start had a policy for naming protocols. It stated that the name had to be for a county or municipality where the OpenStack Summit would take place. The nane could only be eight characters. Releases have been done in alphabetic order as follows: But some in the OpenStack community had other thoughts. A subversive movement emerged to amend the rules. The community revolt spread and so Thierry Carrez, the release manager for OpenStack called for a vote: We should no longer limit ourselves to cities and counties near the next Design Summit ! Grizzly sounds so great that we should extend the rules to include either first names of a combined city name (“Grizzly Flats” being a city in California), or official symbols of the territory i...