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On 04/24/2014 03:32 PM, Rushi Agrawal wrote:
> Thanks for bringing this up. We at Reliance are building a team
> completely dedicated to make the EC2 API support in OpenStack rock-solid
> and complete. Coming from block-storage background, I submitted a few
> blueprints[1][2][3] for the volumes stuff, along with the code for
> them[4][5][6] in the Icehouse release. Unfortunately, the reviews didn't
> get the attention they required and they were pushed to Juno (probably,
> partly due to it being residing in Nova but actually being related to
> Cinder).
> 
> I was the only person in our team for a few months to take care of
> efforts in this direction. The process of adding more resources has
> already been started, although I am expecting that it will take a month
> of time before they start actively contributing to upstream code.
> 
> The point I am trying to make is that there are people interested in
> keeping this layer functional and in a healthy state. Now that we have
> promised in the writing that we will dedicate efforts, I think waiting
> till end of Icehouse is a good idea. Let this cycle be our last chance
> to show that we care for this piece of code :)
> 
> I will make sure I make it clear to my team that making the EC2 API
> 'robust' is more important than making it 'feature complete'. As you can
> see from my contributions, I have been guilty of not following this
> myself in the past.
> 
> Links:
> 1. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ec2-volume-and-snapshot-tags
> 2. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ec2-volume-type
> 3. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/ec2-volume-filtering
> 
> 4. [DescribeVolumes all filters](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70085/)
> 5. [EC2 Volume type](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61041/)
> 6. [EC2 volume tags(metadata)](https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64690/)
> 
> Regards,
> Rushi Agrawal
> Cloud engineer,
> Reliance Jio Infocomm

Great! happy to see someone stepping up here.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
http://dague.net

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