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Is there a Big Bang going
on?
Dave Neary, Red Hat
Ildiko Vancsa, Ericsson
Yes...
The growth of OPNFV
Project creation timeline
The cost of growth - Number of projects
• Management overhead
– Release planning
– Risks
– Dependencies
• Communication
– Cross-project interaction is hard
– Synchronization overhead
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The cost of growth - Lifecycle management
• Maturity levels
– No clear definition
• Review process overhead
– Heavy process
– Too many projects to follow
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The cost of growth - Focus
• Lack of clarity on strategy
• Dilution of OPNFV message
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OPNFV’s top challenges
1.Managing competing company agendas
2.Industry perception of the project
3.Unclear strategy
Source: Heavy Reading survey, October 2015
Is this the first in history? No - OpenStack, ODL, Linux ...
OpenStack (r)evolution?
• Core projects
– DefCore
– Governance
• Big tent
– Experimental
– Lego concept
– Tagging
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OpenDaylight
• “Core” vs “mature”
• Project offsets
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Linux kernel
• BDFL = SPOF
• High bar for acceptance
• Subsystems, delegation
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Learn the lesson The next step
• Project lifecycle changes
– End to end flow in each project
– Focus on integration points
Agile development process
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• Encourage projects that overlap to
– merge
– broaden scope
• Raise the bar for project acceptance
– Encourage contributor diversity
– Encourage upstream engagement
Project governance
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• Concentrate efforts
– Focus efforts on small number of key gaps
– Get quick, public wins for the project
Collaboration and focus
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Thank you Any questions?
