[openstack-dev] [nova][vmware] Future of Vim and PBM in Nova: summary of IRC discussion

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 10:54:32 UTC 2014


+1 to concentrate on oslo.vmware and thanks for the update!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:
> For anybody who missed it, we discussed the following 2 outstanding
> reviews yesterday:
>
> vmwareapi oslo.vmware library integration
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70175/
>
> VMware: initial support for SPBM
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66666/
>
> The issue is that oslo.vmware already contains nascent support for SPBM,
> so these are really 2 patches trying to achieve the same thing by
> different, incompatible means.
>
> After some discussion, we agreed that we would abandon the Nova SPBM
> patch to concentrate on the oslo.vmware patch. This patch has
> languished, but Vui is going to bring it up to date. It also has an
> approved BP.
>
> We also agreed that we only want 1 refactor review queue. As the
> oslo.vmware patch touches so much code, it inevitably conflicts with the
> spawn refactor. Therefore we will either rebase oslo.vmware on to the
> spawn refactor, or vice versa. As both patch sets are primarily on Vui,
> he will make the call about which is least disruptive.
>
> Radoslav has identified some non-disruptive cleanup work which he
> originally put into the Nova SPBM patch. He will now move this into
> oslo.vmware. This cleanup will be 100% backwards compatible, requiring
> no client updates whatsoever to continue working.
>
> We also need to add some additional features to SPBM support in
> oslo.vmware. These will be added, ensuring they don't impact any
> existing Vim users, and the oslo.vmware version bumped.
>
> I am continuing to advocate a significant rewrite of the Vim API.
> However, as we aren't proposing any backwards incompatible changes at
> the moment there is no current incentive to bring this forward.
>
> Matt
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