<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbryant@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbryant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings,<br>
<br>
Nova includes various compute drivers today, but the test coverage they<br>
receive varies quite a bit. This is documented on the following wiki<br>
page. The drivers are broken up into groups A, B, and C.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix</a><br>
<br>
We have two new compute drivers in the queue for Havana: docker [1] and<br>
z/vm [2]. I'd like to propose as a piece of criteria for inclusion that<br>
new drivers go into groups A or B.<br>
<br>
Further, I would like to see *all* drivers move into groups A or B by<br>
the release of Icehouse. I've been told that this is already in the<br>
works for VMware and baremetal, at least.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And if a driver doesn't go into group A or B by Icehouse? Do we put clear warnings in the release notes that they are 'use at your own risk.' Perhaps if drivers stay in C by the end of Icehouse Development we remove them, as we have no way of guaranteeing they work and shipping broken code looks bad.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I feel like if there isn't enough interesting and willingness to raise<br>
the bar on testing a given compute driver, then we're just wasting our<br>
time and effort having it in the tree.<br>
<br>
Feedback welcome!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/new-hypervisor-docker" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/new-hypervisor-docker</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/zvm-plugin" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/zvm-plugin</a><br>
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--<br>
Russell Bryant<br>
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