<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Hi, Takashi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Thanks for working on this project, we (Catalyst Cloud) also provide VPNaaS in our OpenStack based public cloud, so maybe we can also provide help from our side.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Cheers,<br>Lingxian Kong (Larry)</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Takashi Yamamoto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yamamoto@midokura.com" target="_blank">yamamoto@midokura.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Armando M. <<a href="mailto:armamig@gmail.com">armamig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> As of today, the project neutron-vpnaas is no longer part of the neutron<br>
> governance. This was a decision reached after the project saw a dramatic<br>
> drop in active development over a prolonged period of time.<br>
><br>
> What does this mean in practice?<br>
><br>
> From a visibility point of view, release notes and documentation will no<br>
> longer appear on <a href="http://openstack.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">openstack.org</a> as of Ocata going forward.<br>
> No more releases will be published by the neutron release team.<br>
> The neutron team will stop proposing fixes for the upstream CI, if not<br>
> solely on a voluntary basis (e.g. I still felt like proposing [2]).<br>
><br>
> How does it affect you, the user or the deployer?<br>
><br>
> You can continue to use vpnaas and its CLI via the python-neutronclient and<br>
> expect it to work with neutron up until the newton<br>
> release/python-neutronclient 6.0.0. After this point, if you want a release<br>
> that works for Ocata or newer, you need to proactively request a release<br>
> [5], and reach out to a member of the neutron release team [3] for approval.<br>
> Assuming that the vpnaas CI is green, you can expect to have a working<br>
> vpnaas system upon release of its package in the foreseeable future.<br>
> Outstanding bugs and new bug reports will be rejected on the basis of lack<br>
> of engineering resources interested in helping out in the typical OpenStack<br>
> review workflow.<br>
> Since we are freezing the development of the neutron CLI in favor of the<br>
> openstack unified client (OSC), the lack of a plan to make the VPN commands<br>
> available in the OSC CLI means that at some point in the future the neutron<br>
> client CLI support for vpnaas may be dropped (though I don't expect this to<br>
> happen any time soon).<br>
><br>
> Can this be reversed?<br>
><br>
> If you are interested in reversing this decision, now it is time to step up.<br>
> That said, we won't be reversing the decision for Ocata. There is quite a<br>
> curve to ramp up to make neutron-vpnaas worthy of being classified as a<br>
> neutron stadium project, and that means addressing all the gaps identified<br>
> in [6]. If you are interested, please reach out, and I will work with you to<br>
> add your account to [4], so that you can drive the neutron-vpnaas agenda<br>
> going forward.<br>
><br>
> Please do not hesitate to reach out to ask questions and/or clarifications.<br>
<br>
</div></div>hi,<br>
<br>
i'm interested in working on the project.<br>
well, at least on the parts which is used by networking-midonet.<br>
<span class=""><br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Armando<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/392010/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#<wbr>/c/392010/</a><br>
> [2] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397924/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#<wbr>/c/397924/</a><br>
> [3] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/150,members" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#<wbr>/admin/groups/150,members</a><br>
> [4] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/502,members" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#<wbr>/admin/groups/502,members</a><br>
> [5] <a href="https://github.com/openstack/releases" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstack/<wbr>releases</a><br>
> [6]<br>
> <a href="http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/stadium/ocata/neutron-vpnaas.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://specs.openstack.org/<wbr>openstack/neutron-specs/specs/<wbr>stadium/ocata/neutron-vpnaas.<wbr>html</a><br>
><br>
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