<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">Hello operators and other people interested in metadefs,</span><div id="gmail-magicdomid5" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid6" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">The Glance team will be giving the metadefs some love in the Xena development cycle in order to address OSSN-0088 [0].</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid7" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid8" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">The
 people who designed and implemented metadefs are long gone, and in 
determining how to fix OSSN-0088, we would like to understand how people
 are actually using them in the wild so we don't restrict them so much 
as to make them useless.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid9" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid541" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">We are looking for an operator who uses metadefs to give us a walkthrough on how you are using them at the Xena (virtual) PTG.  </span><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">We
 are planning to have this session on 23rd April around 1400 UTC. You 
can find more details about the same in PTG planning etherpad [1]. We 
are also willing to meet outside the PTG schedule in case the current 
scheduled time might be blocking the people. I will also reply to this 
as a reminder mail once our PTG schedule is final.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid11" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid615" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z70zvz65zobb5rvz90z2nz66zz71zip">If
 you do not use the metadef API for some reason related to its inability
 to solve a problem, lack of flexibility, or other reasons (but wish you
 could), we would also like to hear about that. We need to know if the 
feature is worth fixing and maintaining going forward.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid13" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid14" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">And when we say "an operator", we don't mean just one ... ideally, we'd like to have a few real-life use cases to consider.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid15" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid542" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">If
 this is affecting you (as an operator) then you can reach us either by 
mail or #openstack-glance IRC channel or glance weekly meeting [2] which
 will be held every Thursday around 1400 UTC.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid17" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid596" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk">[0] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-lz88zz83zsz65zdz74zz86zz89z6z77zz87zpxz80zk gmail-url"><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0088" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0088</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid602" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">[1] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h gmail-url"><a href="https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/xena-ptg-glance-planning" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/xena-ptg-glance-planning</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid608" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">[2] </span><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h gmail-url"><a href="https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/glance-team-meeting-agenda" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/glance-team-meeting-agenda</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid609" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid545" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid570" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">Thank you and Best Regards,</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid572" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid595" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-qfrnwlsl0z70z9vz84zs3h">Abhishek Kekane</span></div></div></div>