[openstack-dev] [nova][libvirt][baremetal] Nova Baremetal's Usage of Components from Libvirt

Dan Smith dms at danplanet.com
Tue Aug 5 18:49:40 UTC 2014


>> The second option would be to make a copy of the old ImageCacheManager
>> in the Baremetal directory, and have the Baremetal driver
>> use that.  This seems to me to be the better option, since it means
>> that when the Baremetal driver is removed, the old ImageCacheManager
>> code goes with it, without someone having to manually remove it.
> 
> I might get shot in the head, but I think option 2 makes the most sense.
> There is no need to do _new_ work in support of a dead codebase.

Agreed, making a copy isn't the end of the world, and we know we're
going to delete it soonish anyway. We've asked the ironic folks to do a
lot to make the baremetal transition easy and I see no reason to add a
refactor dependency to the list so it can be deleted in six months :)

--Dan

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