At the Board of Directors meeting on April 24, 2016 the Board of
Directors indicated that as DefCore has evolved it's focus on
interoperability and it's working structure, it's name may be a source
of some confusion to those outside of the community or who are new to
the community. The Board made an informal request that the DefCore
Committee consider changing it's name to more clearly reflect it's focus
and structure.
This patch is the first step in that process. It updates references
in various documents to change the name "DefCore Committee" to
"Interop Working Group" as agreed at the summer 2016 DefCore Committee
Sprint [1].
It should be noted that this patch should be considered a work in
progress to generate discussion until the new name is approved by
the DefCore Committee and the Board of Directors. Should we elect
to go forward with the new name, some other actions will also need
to be taken, including but not limited to:
1. We will need to consider updating references on the OpenStack wiki.
2. We will need to consider updating the name of our IRC channel,
mailing list, Launchpad project, and git repository. Most of these
changes will need to be carefully coordinated with the OpenStack
Infrastructure team.
3. We will need to take into account external resources that point to
DefCore artifacts, such as Foundation-maintained websites (such as:
http://www.openstack.org/interop ).
4. We will need to coordinate with RefStack to minimize impact.
5. We will need to clearly communicate the name change to the rest of the
community.
Note also that I've intentionally left many historical documents that
have been superceded (such as the 2015A process docs, Guidelines that
are no longer used, etc) in tact. There seemed little value in
spending time on them and cluttering the patch with them since they're
now obsolete.
[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DefCoreSummer2016Sprint
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