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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d">We restricted this because allowing nova-network to be used as an underlay for all possible combinations added QA time and effort to supporting a soon to be deprecated option.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d">As nova-network is being deprecated upstream and will relatedly be deprecated in Fuel – AFAIK, there is a goal to deprecate nova-network entirely in Fuel 8.0 - we should reduce the number of customers who are even able to use this as the networking underlay to only reflect customers who absolutely require it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d">There is not sufficient value in supporting nova-network for other use cases.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mike Scherbakov [mailto:<a href="mailto:mscherbakov@mirantis.com">mscherbakov@mirantis.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 29, 2015 12:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [openstack-dev] [Fuel] Restrictions in Fuel API: nova-network</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Folks,</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">why do we even want to introduce restrictions?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please see</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1470488">https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1470488</a></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">about locking nova-network.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We already suffer from locked Settings tab in our API.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Instead, we just need to introduce a warning, that this option is deprecated and it's on risk of a user to use it. We want Fuel to be flexible, and not too prescriptive.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Mike Scherbakov<br>#mihgen</p></div></div></body></html>