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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Kyle Mestery <mestery at noironetworks.com> wrote:
> For the upcoming Summit there are 3 sessions filed around "Service
> VMs" in Neutron. After discussing this with a few different people,
> I'd like to propose the idea that the "Service VM" work be moved out
> of Neutron and into it's own project on stackforge. There are a few
> reasons for this:

How long do you anticipate the project needing to live on stackforge
before it can move to a place where we can introduce symmetric gating
with the projects that use it?

Who is going to drive the development work?

Doug

>
> 1. There is nothing Neutron specific about service VMs.
> 2. Service VMs can perform services for other OpenStack projects.
> 3. The code is quite large and may be better served being inside it's
> own project.
>
> Moving the work out of Neutron and into it's own project would allow
> for separate velocity for this project, and for code to be shared for
> the Service VM work for things other than Neutron services.
>
> I'm starting this email thread now to get people's feedback on this
> and see what comments other have. I've specifically copied Isaku and
> Bob, who both filed summit sessions on this and have done a lot of
> work in this area to date.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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