[openstack-dev] [all] [tc] [ironic] Picking an official name for a subproject (ironic-inspector in this case)

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Fri Dec 4 15:40:15 UTC 2015


On 12/04/2015 03:33 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04 2015, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>
>> Specifically, I'm talking about ironic-inspector, which is a auxiliary service
>> under the bare metal program. My first assumption is to prefix with ironic's
>> official name, so it should be something like 'baremetal-XXX' or 'baremetal
>> XXX'. Is it correct? Which separator is preferred?
>
> FWIW we have 3 different projects under the telemetry umbrella and they
> do not share any prefix.

Do you register all 3 in keystone? What do you use as service types?

>
>> Next step is choosing the XXX part. The process we implement in
>> ironic-inspector is usually referred to as "baremetal introspection" or
>> "baremetal inspection". The former is used for our OSC plugin, so I think our
>> official name should be one of
>> 1. "baremetal<SEPARATOR>introspection" - named after the process we implement
>> 2. "baremetal<SEPARATOR>inspector" - using our code name after the official
>> ironic project name.
>
> I think 1. makes more sense.

That's what I'll use if nobody objects.. I'm only undecided about the 
separator.

>
> My 2c,
>
> Cheers,
>




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