[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Announcing a new task scheduling and orchestration service for OpenStack

Stan Lagun slagun at mirantis.com
Mon Oct 14 20:20:36 UTC 2013


> Why exactly aren't you just calling this Convection and/or collaborating
> with the developers who came up with it?

We do actively collaborate with TaskFlow/StateManagement team who are also
the authors of Convection proposal. This is a joint project and we invite
you and other developers to join and contribute.
Convection is a Microsoft trademark. That's why Mistral


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Renat Akhmerov's message of 2013-10-14 12:40:28 -0700:
> > Hi OpenStackers,
> >
> > I am proud to announce the official launch of the Mistral project. At
> Mirantis we have a team to start contributing to the project right away. We
> invite anybody interested in task service & state management to join the
> initiative.
> >
> > Mistral is a new OpenStack service designed for task flow control,
> scheduling, and execution. The project will implement Convection proposal (
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Convection) and provide an API and
> domain-specific language that enables users to manage tasks and their
> dependencies, and to define workflows, triggers, and events. The service
> will provide the ability to schedule tasks, as well as to define and manage
> external sources of events to act as task execution triggers.
>
> Why exactly aren't you just calling this Convection and/or collaborating
> with the developers who came up with it?
>
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Sincerely yours
Stanislav (Stan) Lagun
Senior Developer
Mirantis
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Moscow, Russia
Skype: stanlagun
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