[openstack-dev] [nova] FFE request for instance tagging

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 13:36:22 UTC 2015


On 02/06/2015 08:30 AM, Sergey Nikitin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to ask for a feature freeze exception for the instance tags API
> extension:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/128940/
>
> spec https://review.openstack.org/#/c/127281/
>
> blueprint was approved, but its status was changed to "Pending Approval"
> because of FF. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/tag-instances
>
> Tree of four pathces are merged.
> The last patch has got +2 from Jay Pipes.
>
> This set of patches was pretty close to merge, but FF came.
>
> In most popular REST API interfaces, objects in the domain model can be
> "tagged" with zero or more simple strings. This feature will allow
> normal users to add, remove and list tags for an instance and filter
> instances by tags.
> Also these changes will allow to use tags to "tag" other nova objects in
> future because created Tag object is universal and any nova object with
> id could be tagged by it.
>
> Please consider this feature to be a part Kilo release.

Yes, I will definitely sponsor this. 3 of 4 patches in the series have 
already been merged, the blueprint was approved in both Juno and Kilo, 
and Sergey has been diligent in pushing revisions based on reviews. The 
issue has been lack of eyeballs from core reviewers and followup.

-jay



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