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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>
Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: February 13, 2017 at 10:14:24
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][glance][glare][all]
glance/glare/artifacts/images at the PTG

> On 2017-02-13 18:23:19 +0300 (+0300), Mikhail Fedosin wrote:
> [...]
> > Almost every project works with some binary data and must store it
> > somewhere, and almost always storage itself is not the part of the
> > project's mission. This issue has often been neglected. For this reason
> > there is no single recommended method for storing of binary data, which
> > would have a unified public api and hide all the things of the internal
> > storage infrastructure.
> [...]
>
> If you'll forgive the sarcasm, it sounds like you're proposing that
> OpenStack components should be able to rely on the existence of a
> standard service suitable for generalized storage and retrieval of
> arbitrary blobs of data through an API. Our trademark
> interoperability requirements may even guarantee the presence of one
> already in any compliant deployment; I'll have to check... ;)

Well it's a storage service, so I hope the name doesn't start with "S". ;D

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Ian Cordasco