[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Instance tasks

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Tue Jul 22 23:07:42 UTC 2014


Ok, this one has two cores, so the exception is approved. The
exception is in the form of another week to get the spec merged, so
quick iterations are the key.

Cheers,
Michael

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Kenichi Oomichi
<oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Garbutt [mailto:john at johngarbutt.com]
>> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 6:54 PM
>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Instance tasks
>>
>> On 18 July 2014 14:28, Andrew Laski <andrew.laski at rackspace.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody,
>> >
>> > I would like to request a spec proposal extension for instance tasks,
>> > described in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86938/ .  This has been a long
>> > discussed and awaited feature with a lot of support from the community.
>> >
>> > This feature has been intertwined with the fate of the V3 API, which is
>> > still being worked out, and may not be completed in Juno.  This means that I
>> > lack confidence that the tasks API work can be fully completed in Juno as
>> > well.  But there is more to the tasks work than just the API, and I would
>> > like to get some of that groundwork done. In fact, one of the challenges
>> > with the task work is how to handle an upgrade situation with an API that
>> > exposes tasks and computes which are not task aware and therefore don't
>> > update them properly. If it's acceptable I would propose stripping the API
>> > portion of the spec for now and focus on getting Juno computes to be task
>> > aware so that tasks exposed in the Kilo API would be handled properly with
>> > Juno computes.  This of course assumes that we're reasonably confident we
>> > want to add tasks to the API in Kilo.
>>
>> I see better task handling as a key to better organising the error
>> handling inside Nova, and improving stability.
>>
>> As such I am happy to sponsor this spec.
>
> I also am glad to support this spec.
> This feature will be nice to investigate gate failures in our future.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ken'ichi Ohmichi
>
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