[SEJeff]

The way you start this off is a pretty poor response to my original question, whereas the rest is fantastic. It isn't about throwing one's weight around or even making it more marketable, but about improving the product for new use cases (such as Apprenda wanting to better Kubernetes via the on-premise sig).

Thanks for your response, I was curious as to the value add and this helps.

[marcoceppi]

Thanks for the feedback, my original sentence may have been a bit hasty, but the core of the message is there. I see Canonical's role as the expediter/server in a kitchen instead of donning another chef hat when dish are piling up to go out. We want to celebrate and get the amazing work of the community into as many hands as possible.

We participate in SIGs as well, sig-on-premise being one we co-chair and co-founded. We've planning on helping the project in ways other than code contributions.

[SEJeff]

Sorry I meant even Apprenda has actual golang feature commits. That was my point Re: Apprenda and contributions.

This seems to be Canonical's general direction. It just makes me sad that is is more on marketing than engineering. I wish it was more of both as clearly Canonical does Linux + marketing better than basically anyone or there wouldn't be so much Ubuntu everywhere :)

[jcastro]

We're participating in the on-prem sig now that it's been acked, along with Apprenda, CoreOS, Mirantis, and I'm sure some others.