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I'm not a user but is there any more details on why it was removed, seems like it would be nice to know more reasoning than "it doesn't fit our (internal/unknown) strategic goals" at IBM. Seems rather sad that a driver can be removed with more detail around why.

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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:49 AM, "Russell Bryant" <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> The maintainers of the PowerVM driver have proposed that it be removed
> from Nova.  Their reasons are:
> 
> - it is no longer in line with IBM's strategic direction with OpenStack
> 
> - they are not aware of anyone ever having used the driver (outside of
>   the team that developed and maintained it)
> 
> The second point is quite important.  If anyone is using it that they do
> not know of, we need to find out.  Normally we would approach something
> like this with a phased deprecation plan (mark it deprecated in
> Icehouse, remove it in J).  There is a non-zero cost to keeping the
> code, so if we can remove it immediately, there is some benefit to Nova
> development.
> 
> If you have an interest in this driver, please speak now.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Russell Bryant
> 
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