[openstack-dev] Proposal to support new Cinder driver for CloudByte's Elastistor

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Tue Aug 13 16:21:31 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:01 AM, John Griffith
<john.griffith at solidfire.com>wrote:

> Hi Amit,
>
> I think part of what Thierry was eluding to was the fact that feature
> freeze for Grizzly is next week.  Also in the past we've been trying to
> make sure that folks did not introduce BP's for new drivers in the last
> release mile-stone.  There are other folks that are in this position
> however they've also proposed their BP's for their driver and sent updates
> to the Cinder team since H1.
>
> That being said, if you already have working code that you think is ready
> and can be submitted we can see what the rest of the Cinder team thinks.
>  No promises though that your code will make it in, there are a number of
> things already in process that will take priority in terms of review time
> etc.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Amit Das <amit.das at cloudbyte.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot... This should give us a head start.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Amit
>> *CloudByte Inc.* <http://www.cloudbyte.com/>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Amit Das wrote:
>>> > We have implemented a CINDER driver for our QoS aware storage solution
>>> > (CloudByte Elastistor).
>>> >
>>> > We would like to integrate this driver code with the next version of
>>> > OpenStack (Havana).
>>> >
>>> > Please let us know the approval processes to be followed for this new
>>> > driver support.
>>>
>>> See https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Cycle and
>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprints for the beginning of an
>>> answer.
>>>
>>> Note that we are pretty late in the Havana cycle with lots of features
>>> which have been proposed a long time ago still waiting for reviews and
>>> merging... so it's a bit unlikely that a new feature would be added now
>>> to that already-overloaded backlog.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>>>
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>
I should clarify my posting, next week (August 21'st) is a FeatureProposal
freeze for the Cinder project.  Further explanation here: [1]

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/FeatureProposalFreeze
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