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On 05/05/2017 06:16 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 05/04/2017 11:08 AM, Alex Schultz wrote:

>> Probably because they are still on Kilo. Not sure how much they could
>> be contributing to the current when their customers are demanding that
>> something is rock solid which by now looks nothing like the current
>> upstream.   I think this is part of the problem as the upstream can
>> tend to outpace anyone else in terms of features or anything else.  I
>> think the the bigger question could be what's the benefit of
>> continuing to press forward and add yet more features when consumers
>> cannot keep up to consume these?  Personally I think usability (and
>> some stability) sometimes tends to take a backseat to features in the
>> upstream which is unfortunate because it makes these problems worse.
>
> The general statement of "people care more about features than
> usability/stability" gets thrown around a lot. And gets lots of head
> nodding. But rarely comes with specifics.
>
> Can we be specific about what feature work is outpacing the consumers
> that don't help with usability/stability?

On the usability/stability front, in nova you still can't correctly live-migrate 
if you have dedicated CPUs or hugepages, or a specific NUMA topology.  The 
commits for this have been under review since Kilo, but never quite make it in. 
  At the same time, there are no warnings or errors to the user saying that it's 
not stable...it just migrates and hopes that it doesn't collide with another 
instance.

On the usability front, the new "openstack" client doesn't support 
microversions, which limits its usefulness with nova.  (I think some folks are 
starting to look at this one.)

Chris