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On 09/04/2014 07:42 PM, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote:
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>> I believe you brought this up as one of your justifications for the FFE.
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>> As the person responsible for Nova in HP I will be interested to see how
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> That is awesome and we as a project are lucky to have that! I would not
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> I can't help but read this as you being OK with the feature going ahead,
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> Actually, let’s say I have no particular objection. Just thought Sean’s
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> Now, if this had been done as an extensible resource I could easily
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Quick response as not to hijack the thread:

I think we all agree on the benefits of having resources you can turn
off and on at will.

The current implementation of it, however, has some glaring drawbacks
that made it impossible for me to base my work on it, that have been
discussed in detail on other threads and IRC heavily, hence we need to
rethink how to get there.

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