[openstack-dev] [all] [nova] [placement] placement below or beside compute after extraction?

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Mon Aug 20 18:02:20 UTC 2018


On 08/20/2018 11:44 AM, Zane Bitter wrote:

> If you want my personal opinion then I'm a big believer in incremental change.
> So, despite recognising that it is born of long experience of which I have been
> blissfully mostly unaware, I have to disagree with Chris's position that if
> anybody lets you change something then you should try to change as much as
> possible in case they don't let you try again. (In fact I'd go so far as to
> suggest that those kinds of speculative changes are a contributing factor in
> making people reluctant to allow anything to happen at all.) So I'd suggest
> splitting the repo, trying things out for a while within Nova's governance, and
> then re-evaluating. If there are that point specific problems that separate
> governance would appear to address, then it's only a trivial governance patch
> and a PTL election away. It should also be much easier to get consensus at that
> point than it is at this distance where we're only speculating what things will
> be like after the extraction.
>
> I'd like to point out for the record that Mel already said this and said it
> better and is AFAICT pretty much never wrong :)

In order to address the "velocity of change in placement" issues, how about 
making the main placement folks members of nova-core with the understanding that 
those powers would only be used in the new placement repo?

Chris



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