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On 7/26/2013 10:39 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 07/26/2013 08:04 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>> Also there are EC2 design points that have request lengths greater than
>> what Apache (or any other web front end) is compiled to support, as they
>> have the possibility of enourmous GET strings (16K at least). Again,
>> instead of sensibly requiring to move to POST in those cases. I know we
>> had to land a change for CERN to allow bigger requests on EC2 calls for
>> just this reason (we did keep the get length apache sized on OSAPI, so
>> we didn't break people's attempts to get this behind a real web server).

I wrote that patch, so now I feel qualified to jump in this thread. :)

> However, I will say that developers write code to scratch an itch -- or
> some product manager's itch. So the fact that nobody is all that
> interested in spending time to code up enhanced EC2 API support in Nova
> is, well, quite telling that the demand for such things is less than
> what some people think.

I know that my user community has little to no experience with openstack
development, but our still nascent cloud infrastructure is built around
tools that speak EC2. API translation layers like Deltacloud are just
another layer we'd need to deploy, operate, monitor, and so on, and on
the whole I think we'd prefer for the compatibility to be built-in
rather than yet another service.

I disagree about measuring user demand -- it's not a great metric here.
When I tried to throw an issue over the wall to nova development, it got
thrown back and I was asked to sign the CLA and contribute directly*. I
think it's tough to gauge user demand if that's the usual answer to
missing API bits.

- B

* I'm not complaining about this -- it's the model for community-driven
development. (And I can only contribute parasitically, development isn't
my day job.)