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+1 for its own project for service VM.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Kyle Mestery <mestery at noironetworks.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Doug Hellmann
> <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> The patches for this (look at the BP here [1]) have been in review for
> a while now as WIP. I think it's reasonable to expect that moving this
> to stackforge would let the authors and others interested collaborate
> faster. I expect this would take a cycle on stackforge before we could
> talk about other projects using this. But honestly, that's a better
> question for Isaku and Bob.
>
> > Who is going to drive the development work?
> >
> For that, I'm thinking Isaku and Bob (copied above) would be the ones
> driving it. But anyone else who is interested should feel free to jump
> in as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/adv-services-in-vms
>
> > 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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