The document discusses concerns around the growth of OPNFV projects, including increased management overhead, communication and synchronization challenges, lack of clarity on maturity levels and strategy, and dilution of focus. It notes this issue is not unique and compares OPNFV to other open source projects like OpenStack, ODL, and Linux that have experienced similar growth challenges. The document recommends steps for OPNFV to learn from these others, including changes to the project lifecycle and governance, encouraging more merged and focused projects, raising the bar for new projects, and concentrating efforts on key gaps.

1. Is there a Big Bang going
on?
Dave Neary, Red Hat
Ildiko Vancsa, Ericsson

2. Yes...

3. The growth of OPNFV

4. Project creation timeline

5. 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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6. 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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7. The cost of growth - Focus
• Lack of clarity on strategy
• Dilution of OPNFV message
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8. OPNFV’s top challenges
1.Managing competing company agendas
2.Industry perception of the project
3.Unclear strategy
Source: Heavy Reading survey, October 2015

9. Is this the first in history?
No - OpenStack, ODL, Linux ...

10. OpenStack (r)evolution?
• Core projects
– DefCore
– Governance
• Big tent
– Experimental
– Lego concept
– Tagging
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11. OpenDaylight
• “Core” vs “mature”
• Project offsets
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12. Linux kernel
• BDFL = SPOF
• High bar for acceptance
• Subsystems, delegation
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13. Learn the lesson
The next step

14. • Project lifecycle changes
– End to end flow in each project
– Focus on integration points
Agile development process
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15. • 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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16. • Concentrate efforts
– Focus efforts on small number of key gaps
– Get quick, public wins for the project
Collaboration and focus
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17. Thank you
Any questions?