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Hi Ken, Devananda and all,

I'm Etsuji. I've recently joined the dodai-compute team, and
would like to contribute to the baremetal project, too.
I'm now working closely with Osamu, by the way:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/003790.html

Let me explain some background of my interest in the baremetal
project and plan of the contribution.

dodai-compute has been developed for a specific usecase in NII's
private cloud (National Institute of Informatics Japan.) Because
of that, it's not suitable for general usecases and is unlikely
to be merged in the upstream. So dodai-compute team is now
considering to adopt the upstream baremetal feature in NII as an
alternative of dodai-compute. For that purpose, we'd like to add
some new features which are required for NII's usecase and also
beneficial to other baremetal users.

We're now mainly considering the following items:

1) Scheduler extension for grouping of baremetal servers.
- Allowing users to specify baremetal servers to be used.

2) Multiple OS provisioning method.
- Allowing multiple types of OS images such as:
   dd-image (NTTdocomo-openstack style)
   tar ball (dodai-compute style)
   Kickstart installation (new feature)

3) Baremetal Quantum plugin for VLAN inter-connection.
- Allowing inter-connection to existing VLAN networks.
- Allowing NIC-bonding configuration.

We internally call our plan "dodai-compute2.0". It doesn't mean
to make a new branch, but to add the above features to the
upstream baremetal. Here's a draft of the presentation of the plan.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-aLYh1CAM_qR1VxSFViM1hPTGM/edit?usp=sharing

I'm really glad if you're interested in it, too, and happy to
explain/discuss more details if necessary.

- Etsuji Nakai