https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1306822 https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1309694
Those bugs describe the missing options, but do not do a great job of describing the impact of not having them. My guess is that without those parameters, you have to rely on system certificates (as you can't provide your own and you can't disable the check). Is that a correct assumption ? Who is impacted by these bugs ?
I think you're right that 1309694 can be worked around by using system cert store. Disabling cert check bug 1306822 is definitely not needed - why would you use certs if you don't check them? So unless more justification is provided in the bugs (importance of both is Undecided) I don't think we have the case for granting the exception.
Distributions are of course free to take those patches, if it suits their policies. BTW having such backports proposed is fine even if denied for stable merge, we can use stable reviews as a mean to share patches among distros.
If my interpretation is correct, then this falls a bit in a grey area: it is a "feature" to allow your own certificate to be provided, but it could be seen as a bug (feature gap) if Neutron was the only project in Icehouse not having that feature (and people would generally expect those parameters to be present). Is Neutron the only project that misses those parameters ?
Currently yes, only Neutron has a new feature in Icehouse to send port events to Nova but Cinder will need to same to properly fix the race with volumes during VM setup.
Cheers, Alan