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I think we're a bit lucky here in that deployment of baremetal is
probably low enough that we can avoid a long winded transition.

Michael

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Devananda,
>
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 09:10 -0700, Devananda van der Veen wrote:
>> To clarify this request, since there seems to be some ambiguity as to
>> whether I suggested a scope reduction to Nova or a new incubated project, I
>> am, in fact, suggesting both at the same time, and would like the TC to
>> consider these requests in parallel. Specifically, I would like to see the
>> baremetal code be split out of Nova and into a new project, code name
>> Ironic, which would start incubation immediately, and thereafter follow the
>> normal incubation process until the TC determines that graduation is (or
>> isn't) appropriate.
>>
>> A salient point here is that, at the moment, there is no separate codebase
>> for ironic. The majority of functionality lives in these places within the
>> nova tree:
>>
>>   bin/nova-baremetal-deploy-helper
>>   bin/nova-baremetal-manage
>>   nova/api/openstack/compute/contrib/baremetal_nodes.py
>>   nova/virt/baremetal/*
>>   nova/tests/baremetal/*
>>
>> I am starting the work of splitting the code now(), and waiting for the
>> TC's determination of incubate-or-not to see whether the code gets hosted
>> on the stackforge or openstack org. Once the split tree is working to some
>> degree, I'll reply to this thread with a link to github, so folks can start
>> to look at it.
>
> So, is the idea that we'd very soon switch the Nova baremetal driver
> over to using the new project?
>
> I think a parallel was being drawn with nova-volumes/Cinder, which
> suggested to me that the current baremetal driver would remain for a
> transition period while the new project settles in?
>
> Personally, I can see the difficulty with making it happen that way and
> I'd be pretty confident you could make this a success in Havana without
> a transition period.
>
> However, maybe you could get the new project going first and host the
> re-worked baremetal driver on a github fork for a few weeks before
> proposing it gets merged into Nova?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
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