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On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Stackers,
> 
> I was hoping to get some answers on a few questions I had regarding the
> Gantt project [1]. Specifically, here are my queries:
> 
> 1) Why was Nova forked to the http://github.com/openstack/gantt
> repository? Forking Nova just to then remove a bunch of code that
> doesn't relate to the scheduler code means that we bring 10K+ commits
> and a git history along with the new project... this seems to be the
> wrong origin for a project the aims to be a separate service. There's a
> reason that Cinder and Neutron didn't start out as a fork of Nova, after
> all…

Authorship history is nice, but this does seem a bit excessive. The cinder
strategy of a single squashed fork would have been/still be fine I’m sure.
> 
> 2) Why is Gantt in the /openstack GitHub organization? Wouldn't
> the /stackforge organization be more appropriate for a project that
> isn't integrated? If I understand some of the backstory behind Gantt,
> the idea was to create a scheduler service from the existing Nova
> scheduler code in order to "complete the work sometime in our lifetime".
> While I understand the drive to start with something that already exists
> and iterate over it, I don't understand why the project went right into
> the /openstack organization instead of following the /stackforge
> processes for housing code that bakes and gets iterated on before
> proposing for incubation. Some explanation would be great here.

This is split-out of existing code so it is following the same path as
cinder. The goal is to deprecate the existing nova scheduler in I. It currently
a new project under the nova program I believe.

> 
> 3) Where is feature planning happening for Gantt? The Launchpad site for
> Gantt [2] is empty. Furthermore, there are a number of blueprints for
> improving the Nova scheduler, notably the no-db-scheduler blueprint [3],
> which even has code submitted for it and is targeted to Icehouse-2. How
> are improvements like this planned to be ported (if at all) to Gantt?

Not sure about the launchpad site. There is a regular scheduler group meeting
and as I understand it the hope will be to do the no-db-scheduler blueprint.
There was quite a bit of debate on whether to do the no-db-scheduler stuff
before or after the forklift and I think the consensus was to do the forklift
first.

> 
> 4) Is the aim of Gantt to provide a RESTful HTTP API in addition to the
> RPC-based API that the existing Nova scheduler exposes?

In the short term the plan is to just replicate the rpc api, but I think
a REST api will be considered long term.

Vish

> 
> Thanks much in advance for answers, and apologies if these have been
> answered before and I missed the ML threads or design summit
> discussions.
> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/gantt/
> [2] http://blueprints.launchpad.net/gantt
> [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/no-db-scheduler
> 
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