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There was only one response in the user survey that the cloud was using PowerVM.

Given IBM's request to drop the function, my analysis of the survey data says that this would not cause disruption for the deployments who reported their configurations.

Thus, an accelerated depreciation schedule would seem appropriate. I would recommend an e-mail to the openstack operations list to confirm that there are no objections.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thierry at openstack.org]
> Sent: 22 November 2013 17:25
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Cc: Tim Bell; Ryan Lane
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Proposed removal of the PowerVM driver
> 
> Russell Bryant wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> According to the user survey there was *1* deployment that reported using PowerVM:
> 
> http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/openstack-user-survey-statistics-november-2013/
> 
> Maybe the user committee could help us make sure that user knows about this plan ?
> 
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)