Open Stack

The current API is stable since this is used by nova and cinder for the
last two releases. Yes, I can act as the maintainer.

 

Here is the list of reviewers:

Arnaud Legendre <arnaudleg at gmail.com>

Davanum Srinivas (dims) <davanum at gmail.com>

garyk <gkotton at vmware.com>

Kartik Bommepally <kbommepally at vmware.com>

Sabari Murugesan <smurugesan at vmware.com>

Shawn Hartsock <hartsock at acm.org>

Subbu <subramanian.neelakantan at gmail.com>

Vui Lam <vui at vmware.com>

 

From: Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 4:22 AM
To: Vipin Balachandran
Cc: Donald Stufft; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] VMware tools in oslo-incubator or
straight to oslo.vmware

 

 

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Vipin Balachandran
<vbalachandran at vmware.com> wrote:

This library is highly specific to VMware drivers in OpenStack and not a
generic VMware API client. As Doug mentioned, this library won't be useful
outside OpenStack. Also, it has some dependencies on openstack.common code
as well. Therefore it makes sense if we make this code as part of OSLO.

 

I think we have consensus that, assuming you are committing to API
stability, this set of code does not need to go through the incubator
before becoming a library. How stable is the current API?

 

If it stable and is not going to be useful to anyone outside of OpenStack,
we can create an oslo.vmware library for it. I can start working with
-infra next week to set up the repository.

 

We will need someone on your team to be designated as the lead maintainer,
to coordinate with the Oslo PTL for release management issues and bug
triage. Is that you, Vipin?

 

We will also need to have a set of reviewers for the new repository. I'll
add oslo-core, but it will be necessary for a few people familiar with the
code to also be included. If you have anyone from nova or cinder who
should be a reviewer, we can add them, too. Please send me a list of names
and the email addresses used in gerrit so I can add them to the reviewer
list when the repository is created.

 

Doug

 

 

 

By the way, a work in progress review has been posted for the VMware
cinder driver integration with the OSLO common code
(https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70108/). The nova integration is
currently under progress.

 

Thanks,

Vipin

 

From: Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM
To: Donald Stufft
Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Vipin
Balachandran
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] VMware tools in oslo-incubator or
straight to oslo.vmware

 

 

 

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:


On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28 2014, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
>> There are several reviews related to adding VMware interface code to
the
>> oslo-incubator so it can be shared among projects (start at
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65075/7 if you want to look at the
code).
>>
>> I expect this code to be fairly stand-alone, so I wonder if we would be
>> better off creating an oslo.vmware library from the beginning, instead
of
>> bringing it through the incubator.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> This sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't look OpenStack specific, so
> maybe building a non-oslo library would be better.
>
> Let's not zope it! :)

+1 on not making it an oslo library.

 

Given the number of issues we've seen with stackforge libs in the gate,
I've changed my default stance on this point.

 

It's not clear from the code whether Vipin et al expect this library to be
useful for anyone not working with both OpenStack and VMware. Either way,
I anticipate having the library under the symmetric gating rules and
managed by the one of the OpenStack teams (oslo, nova, cinder?) and VMware
contributors should make life easier in the long run.

 

As far as the actual name goes, I'm not set on "oslo.vmware" it was just a
convenient name for the conversation.

 

Doug

 

 


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