On 4/18/2019 4:33 PM, Eric Fried wrote:

Scrubbing the Nova PTG agenda (hence addition of [ptg] subject tag), and this is on it:

================ Can we remove the nova-console service? (mriedem) The nova-console service is xenapi-specific and was deprecated in stein: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/610075/ There are, however, REST APIs for it: https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/#server-consoles-servers-os-... So if we drop the nova-console service, the APIs would no longer work. It seems our options are: Delete the nova-console service and obsolete the REST APIs (410 response on all microversions like what we're doingwith nova-cells and nova-network APIs) Deprecate the REST APIs on a new microversion but continue to support older microversions - this means the nova-console service would live forever.

Sorting out the course here is why I had it on the PTG agenda, but we can't really answer that until we have answers to the other questions below.

Are people still using the nova-console service? Are there alternatives/replacements for xen users? BobBall seemed to suggest there was http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-October/135422.html but it's not clear to me. ================

I'm looking for any excuse to remove things from the agenda, and this seems like a good candidate, because we don't really stand to gain anything by bringing it up at the PTG.

Does anyone a) object to removing the nova-console service; or b) think we need to discuss it at the PTG?

(a) I'd like to remove it if no one is using it and there are alternatives but I need xen ops/users/devs to answer that definitively. (b) No, I don't expect xen people to be at the PTG so ML is a better venue. -- Thanks, Matt