<div dir="ltr">Hi there,<div><br></div><div>My answers inline. CC the dev list too.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 01:24, Gary Kotton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkotton@vmware.com" target="_blank">gkotton@vmware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>At the moment the BP is blocked by the design on splitting out the vendor plugins.<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>We have implemented the NSXv plugin based on stable/icehouse and plan to start to push this upstream soon. So at the moment I think that we are all blocked. The NSXv plugin
is a holistic one. The IBM and HP are drivers that hook into the ML2. I am not sure if these will reside in the same or different projects.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I don't think this statement is entirely accurate, please let's not spread FUD; it is true that splitting out of the vendor plugins has been proposed at the summit, but nothing has actually been finalized yet. As a matter of fact, the proposal will be going through the same review process as any other community effort in the form of a blueprint specification.</div><div><br></div><div>The likely outcome of that can be:</div><div><br></div><div>- the proposal gets momentum and it gets ultimately approved</div><div>- the proposal does not get any traction and it's ultimately deferred </div><div>- the proposal gets attention, but it's shot down for lack of agreement<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regardless of the outcome, we can always find a place for the code being contributed, therefore I would suggest to proceed and make progress on any pending effort you may have, on the blueprint spec, the actual code, and the 3rd party CI infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have made progress on all of three, that's even better!</div></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this help</div><div>Armando</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Feng Xi BJ Yan <<a href="mailto:yanfengxi@cn.ibm.com" target="_blank">yanfengxi@cn.ibm.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 9:46 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Gary Kotton <<a href="mailto:gkotton@vmware.com" target="_blank">gkotton@vmware.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:armamig@gmail.com" target="_blank">armamig@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:armamig@gmail.com" target="_blank">armamig@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Zhu ZZ Zhu <<a href="mailto:zhuzhubj@cn.ibm.com" target="_blank">zhuzhubj@cn.ibm.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:dims@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">dims@us.ibm.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:dims@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">dims@us.ibm.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>About VMWare network bp<br>
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<p><font face="sans-serif">Hi, Gary and Armando,</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">Long time no see.</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">Our work on VMWare network bp was blocked for a long time. Shall we go on?</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">Please let me know if you guys have any plans on this. Maybe we could resume our weekly talk firstly.<br>
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Best Regard:)<br>
Bruce Yan<br>
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Yan， Fengxi （闫凤喜）<br>
Openstack Platform Team<br>
IBM China Systems & Technology Lab, Beijing<br>
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:yanfengxi@cn.ibm.com" target="_blank">yanfengxi@cn.ibm.com</a><br>
Tel: 86-10-82451418 Notes: Feng Xi FX Yan/China/IBM<br>
Address: 3BW239, Ring Building. No.28 Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 <br>
DongBeiWang West Road, ShangDi, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China</font></p>
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