<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Manuel, and others:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am sorry, in the rush at the end of
the scheduler meeting a critical fact flew from my mind: the material I
distributed beforehand was intended as something I could reference during
discussion in the meeting, I did not expect it to fully stand on its own.
Indeed, you have noticed that it does not. It will take a little
more time to write something that stands on its own. I will try to
get something out soon, including answers to your questions.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I should also make clear the overall
sense of what I am doing. I am in an in-between state. My group
has some running code on which I can report, but we are not satisfied with
it for a few reasons. One is that it is not integrated yet in any
way with Heat, and I think the discussion we are having here overlaps with
Heat. Another is that it does not support very general changes, we
have so far been solving initial deployment issues. We have been
thinking about how to do better on these issues, and have an outline and
are proceeding with the work; I can report on these too. The things
that concern me the most are issues of how to get architectural alignment
with what the OpenStack community is doing. So my main aim right
now is to have a discussion of how the pieces fit together. I am
told that the OpenStack community likes to focus on small incremental changes,
and that is a way to get things done, but I, at least, would like to get
some sense of where this is going.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mike</font>