<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 18 Jan 2014, at 19:02, Jay Pipes <<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 09:06 +0000, Andrew Hutchings wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I’m not sure what is public and what isn’t so I won’t name names.<br>They are currently talking to us about the best ways of working with<br>us. Both companies want to use Libra in different and interesting<br>ways. They are not currently deploying it but are both playing with<br>it. It is early days, they both approached us just before the<br>Christmas break.<br></blockquote><br>Did these companies say they had looked at Neutron LBaaS and found its<br>design or implementation lacking in some way?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not party to the conversations since I handed off my roll before the conversations really got going. So, I can’t answer unfortunately.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><blockquote type="cite">We know that working with the wider community with Libra has not been<br>our strong point. It is something I want the team to rectify and they<br>are showing signs of making that happen. People that are interested<br>in Libra are welcome to hang out in the #stackforge-libra IRC channel<br>to talk to us.<br></blockquote><br>Cutting to the chase... have there been any discussions about the<br>long-term direction of Libra and Neutron LBaaS. I see little point<br>having two OpenStack endpoints that implement the same basic load<br>balancing functionality.<br><br>Is the main problem in aligning Libra and Neutron the fact that Libra is<br>a wholly-separate endpoint/project and Neutron LBaaS is part of the<br>Neutron project?<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>There are at least 3 different ways I know of that the two can be integrated at various levels based on an investigation into this a year ago. I am not aware of talks starting yet between the Libra and Neutron teams but I would hope both sides are keen to make this happen. Both have a lot to give to make software load balancing a really good thing.</div></body></html>