[openstack-dev] [nova][libvirt][baremetal] Nova Baremetal's Usage of Components from Libvirt

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 19:33:32 UTC 2014


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On 08/05/2014 02:49 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> The second option would be to make a copy of the old
>>> ImageCacheManager in the Baremetal directory, and have the
>>> Baremetal driver use that.  This seems to me to be the better
>>> option, since it means that when the Baremetal driver is
>>> removed, the old ImageCacheManager code goes with it, without
>>> someone having to manually remove it.
>> 
>> I might get shot in the head, but I think option 2 makes the most
>> sense. There is no need to do _new_ work in support of a dead
>> codebase.
> 
> Agreed, making a copy isn't the end of the world, and we know
> we're going to delete it soonish anyway. We've asked the ironic
> folks to do a lot to make the baremetal transition easy and I see
> no reason to add a refactor dependency to the list so it can be
> deleted in six months :)

+1.  Just copy it.  More work seems like wasted effort.

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Russell Bryant
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