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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This library is highly specific to VMware drivers in OpenStack and not a generic VMware API client. As Doug mentioned, this library won't be useful outside OpenStack. Also, it has some dependencies on openstack.common code as well. Therefore it makes sense if we make this code as part of OSLO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>By the way, a work in progress review has been posted for the VMware cinder driver integration with the OSLO common code (<a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70108/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70108/</a>). The nova integration is currently under progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vipin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug.hellmann@dreamhost.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Donald Stufft<br><b>Cc:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Vipin Balachandran<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] VMware tools in oslo-incubator or straight to oslo.vmware<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" target="_blank">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Julien Danjou <<a href="mailto:julien@danjou.info">julien@danjou.info</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Tue, Jan 28 2014, Doug Hellmann wrote:<br>><br>>> There are several reviews related to adding VMware interface code to the<br>>> oslo-incubator so it can be shared among projects (start at<br>>> <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65075/7" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65075/7</a> if you want to look at the code).<br>>><br>>> I expect this code to be fairly stand-alone, so I wonder if we would be<br>>> better off creating an oslo.vmware library from the beginning, instead of<br>>> bringing it through the incubator.<br>>><br>>> Thoughts?<br>><br>> This sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't look OpenStack specific, so<br>> maybe building a non-oslo library would be better.<br>><br>> Let's not zope it! :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>+1 on not making it an oslo library.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Given the number of issues we've seen with stackforge libs in the gate, I've changed my default stance on this point.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's not clear from the code whether Vipin et al expect this library to be useful for anyone not working with both OpenStack and VMware. Either way, I anticipate having the library under the symmetric gating rules and managed by the one of the OpenStack teams (oslo, nova, cinder?) and VMware contributors should make life easier in the long run.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As far as the actual name goes, I'm not set on "oslo.vmware" it was just a convenient name for the conversation.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Doug<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>><br>> --<br>> Julien Danjou<br>> # Free Software hacker # independent consultant<br>> # <a href="http://julien.danjou.info" target="_blank">http://julien.danjou.info</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br><br><br>-----------------<br>Donald Stufft<br>PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>