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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:25:51AM +0000, John Garbutt wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> In particular, has there been a decision made about whether it will
> >>>> definitely be deprecated in some (as yet unspecified) future release, or
> >>>> whether it will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future?
> >>>
> >>> We want to deprecate it.  There are some things blocking moving forward
> >>> with this.  In short:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Feature parity (primarily something that satisfies performance and HA
> >>> requirements addressed by nova-network in multi-host mode)
> >>>
> >>> 2) Testing and quality parity.  The status of Neutron testing in the
> >>> gate is far inferior to the testing done against nova-network.
> >>>
> >>> I'm personally more worried about #2 than #1 at this point.
> >>>
> >>> A major issue is that very few people actually stepped up and agreed to
> >>> help with #2 at the summit [2].  Only one person signed up to work on
> >>> tempest issues.  Nobody signed up to help with grenade.  If this doesn't
> >>> happen, nova-network can't be deprecated, IMO.
> >>>
> >>> If significant progress isn't made ASAP this cycle, and ideally by
> >>> mid-cycle so we can change directions if necessary, then we'll have to
> >>> discuss what next step to take.  That may include un-freezing
> >>> nova-network so that various people holding on to enhancements to
> >>> nova-network can start submitting them back.  It's a last resort, but I
> >>> consider it on the table.
> 
> Another approach to help with (1) is in Icehouse we remove the
> features from nova-network that neutron does not implement. We have
> warned about deprecation for a good few releases, so its almost OK.

We deprecated it on the basis that users would be able to do a upgrade
to new release providing something that was feature equivalent.

We didn't deprecate it on the basis that we were going to remove the
feature and provide no upgrade path, leaving users screwed.

So I don't consider removing features from nova-network to be an
acceptable approach, until they exist in Neutron or something else
that users can upgrade their existing deployments to.

Regards,
Daniel
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