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0 points23david11y ago0 comments

Not sure. Never heard of an official partnership program either, so I'm interested to know details about how this partnership program works. Could be innocent, but something about it smells like a OSS shakedown to me.

Just 'cause it's open-source doesn't mean there aren't any politics involved in what gets merged or not.

An example:

lmctfy support was added by the Google GCE team a long long time ago and I attended a meetup where the GCE team submitted the pull request right there... it was never merged. Languished for months without any public review comments from Docker maintainers.

I'd never seen anything like this before. Here we have Google engineers integrating their work with Docker on their own time and being completely ignored. Embarrassing is a nice way to put it.

There may have been outside discussions and real issues that made merging a bad idea, but as an OSS project I expect those discussions to happen in the pull request, not in some business meeting. I'm sure any technical issues would have been addressed if there had been any. I'm also sure that the GCE team would have been more than happy to maintain their driver. Politics and open-source are a happy mix.

sources:

  https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/4891
  https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/4874

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nickstinemates11y ago· 2 in thread

> There may have been outside discussions and real issues that made merging a bad idea

Yeah, and Eric Brewer got on stage at DockerCon June and stated that pretty publicly. So your instinct was right.

23davidOP11y ago

Part of the problem here could definitely be communication. For whatever reason, it's been incredibly hard to follow what is going on with the Docker project. Keeping info in one place would definitely help.

I'm not able to find any details that support what you're saying. It seems that in June Eric Brewer was still publicly asking for libcontainer to merge in LMCTFY support.

I definitely could be wrong, but looking at this screenshot from Eric's June talk it looks like they were still trying to get it merged:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4DKb51CYAA687s.jpg:large

In June, Eric Brewer posted this:

  We’ve released an open-source tool called cAdvisor that 
  enables fine-grain statistics on resource usage for containers. 
  It tracks both instantaneous and historical stats for a wide 
  variety of resources, handles nested containers, and supports 
  both LMCTFY and Docker’s libcontainer. It’s written in Go with 
  the hope that we can move some of these tools into libcontainer
  directly if people find them useful (as we have).

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-update-on...

Alupis11y ago

If this happened, it would be normal and expected for that to be noted on the PR/Issue Ticket. How can you expect someone say 6 months - 1 year from now to know this unless it's clearly documented? That is what the Issues system is for.

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