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On 04/24/2013 10:35 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24 2013, Russell Bryant wrote:
> 
>> On 04/24/2013 10:10 AM, Eric Windisch wrote:
>>> Sending aside sending, Ceilometer is already doing consumption 
>>> cross-project, receiving notifications from multiple
>>> control_exchanges (at least where amqp is concerned).
>> 
>> Yes, I'm aware that it's consuming notifications from multiple
>> projects. The patch in question is about enabling *sending* cross
>> project. That's what I'm curious about.
> 
> The use case here is to send metrics to the Ceilometer collector 
> directly from other projects using openstack.common.rpc. To do
> that, you have to send a message… on another control exchange.
> 
> As Eric points out, this is typically the same use case we already
> have, just put in the opposite way: not having the Ceilometer
> collector joining a bunch of other control exchange (that it may
> not know about in advance), but having each project send its meters
> to the right place directly (Ceilometer's control exchange).

That seems like a step backwards to me.  Right now we have a nice
generic notification mechanism that can be consumed by ceilometer or
something else.  This would be a move toward coupling all projects
with ceilometer specifically.  Is there something problematic with
consuming notifications as they are today?

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Russell Bryant
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