[openstack-dev] [oslo.messaging][feature freeze exception] Can I get an exception for AMQP 1.0?

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Sep 5 13:26:03 UTC 2014


On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Ken Giusti <kgiusti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm proposing a freeze exception for the oslo.messaging AMQP 1.0
> driver:
> 
>   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/75815/
> 
> Blueprint:
> 
>   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo.messaging/+spec/amqp10-driver-implementation
> 
> I presented this work at the Juno summit [1]. The associated spec has
> been approved and merged [2].
> 
> The proposed patch has been in review since before icehouse, with a
> couple of non-binding +1's.  A little more time is necessary to get
> core reviews.
> 
> The patch includes a number of functional tests, and I've proposed a
> CI check that will run those tests [3].  This patch is currently
> pending support for bare fedora 20 nodes in CI.  I'm planning to add
> additional test cases and devstack support in the future.
> 
> I'm in the process of adding documentation to the RPC section of the
> Openstack manual.
> 
> Justification:
> 
> I think there's a benefit to have this driver available as an
> _experimental_ feature in Juno, and the risk of inclusion is minimal
> as the driver is optional, disabled by default, and will not have
> impact on any system that does not explicitly enable it.
> 
> Unlike previous versions of the protocol, AMQP 1.0 is the official
> standard for AMQP messaging (ISO/IEC 19464).  Support for it is
> arriving from multiple different messaging system vendors [4].
> 
> Having access to AMQP 1.0 functionality in openstack sooner rather
> than later gives the developers of AMQP 1.0 messaging systems the
> opportunity to validate their AMQP 1.0 support in the openstack
> environment.  Likewise, easier access to this driver by the openstack
> developer community will help us find and fix any issues in a timely
> manner as adoption of the standard grows.
> 
> Please consider this feature to be a part of Juno-3 release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ken Giusti  (kgiusti at gmail.com)
> 

This FFE was approved and the change linked above is currently in the merge queue.

Doug





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