[openstack-dev] [Glance] glance.store repo created

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Thu Jul 17 16:19:00 UTC 2014


On 07/17/2014 04:56 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 07/17/2014 02:42 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
>> Greeting,
>>
>> I'd like to announce that we finally got the glance.store repo created.
>>
>> This library pulls out of glance the code related to stores. Not many
>> changes were made to the API during this process. The main goal, for
>> now, is to switch glance over and keep backwards compatibility with
>> Glance to reduce the number of changes required. We'll improve and
>> revamp the store API during K - FWIW, I've a spec draft with ideas for
>> it.
> 
> Link to that spec? It's important for some other in-flight nova-specs
> around zero-copy image handling and refactoring the nova.image module.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/create-store-package

> 
>> The library still needs some work and this is a perfect moment for
>> anyone interested to chime in and contribute to the library. Some things
>> that are missing:
>>
>> - Swift store (Nikhil is working on this)
> 
> ? Why wasn't the existing glance.store.swift used?
> 

It'll be used, it hasn't been ported yet. Porting means applying the
small changes we did to the store API. It's on the works and it will
hopefully be up soon.

Cheers,
Flavio

> Best,
> -jay
> 
>> - Sync latest changes made to the store code.
>>
>> If you've recently made changes to any of the stores, please go ahead
>> and contribute them back to `glance.store` or let me know so I can do it.
>>
>> I'd also like to ask reviewers to request contributions to the `store`
>> code in glance to be proposed to `glance.store` as well. This way, we'll
>> be able to keep parity.
>>
>> I'll be releasing an alpha version soon so we can start reviewing the
>> glance switch-over. We won't obviously merge it until we have feature
>> parity.
>>
>> Any feedback is obviously very welcome,
>> Cheers,
>> Flavio
>>
> 
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