<div dir="ltr">On 31 October 2013 18:46, John Griffith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.griffith@solidfire.com" target="_blank">john.griffith@solidfire.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Is your disappointment that there isn't a path from Essex --></span><br>
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Grizzly/Havana, or are you unhappy with the content?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Upgrading Essex->Folsom introduced both the challenge of upgrading nova-volume to cinder and the challenge of upgrading nova-network to quantum. Upgrading Folsom->Grizzly presents the challenge of migrating nova-network to quantum and assumes that nova-volume has already been migrated to cinder. Upgrading Grizzly->Havana finally closes the door on nova-network as far as I can see, although I may be wrong.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It comes down to the fact that while we cater for migrating between versions of a particular project we don't cater particularly well for migrating between projects when a project splits out from a parent project as was the case for both of the above.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not disappointed about the lack of ability to jump from Essex to Grizzly or Havana, but rather the lack of ability to migrate between projects.</div><div><br></div><div>I would find it entirely suitable to upgrade from Essex to Folsom, then migrate from nova-volume to cinder and from nova-network to quantum, then only to upgrade to Grizzly.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">So to be quite honest we never intended to make skips like you</span><br>
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describe.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This misses the point somewhat, as I've made (hopefully) clear above. It's not about the skipping, but rather the clean migration, even within the same version, from something that used to be inherent (like nova-volume and cinder) to something that is now a new project with its own code tree.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Going forward maybe we can come up with something better.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The reason for raising this now is primarily to do just that.</div></div>