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Doug,

I can help with shepherding this effort as well.

-- dims

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Doug Hellmann
<doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Vipin Balachandran
> <vbalachandran at vmware.com> wrote:
>>
>> This library is highly specific to VMware drivers in OpenStack and not a
>> generic VMware API client. As Doug mentioned, this library won't be useful
>> outside OpenStack. Also, it has some dependencies on openstack.common code
>> as well. Therefore it makes sense if we make this code as part of OSLO.
>
>
> I think we have consensus that, assuming you are committing to API
> stability, this set of code does not need to go through the incubator before
> becoming a library. How stable is the current API?
>
> If it stable and is not going to be useful to anyone outside of OpenStack,
> we can create an oslo.vmware library for it. I can start working with -infra
> next week to set up the repository.
>
> We will need someone on your team to be designated as the lead maintainer,
> to coordinate with the Oslo PTL for release management issues and bug
> triage. Is that you, Vipin?
>
> We will also need to have a set of reviewers for the new repository. I'll
> add oslo-core, but it will be necessary for a few people familiar with the
> code to also be included. If you have anyone from nova or cinder who should
> be a reviewer, we can add them, too. Please send me a list of names and the
> email addresses used in gerrit so I can add them to the reviewer list when
> the repository is created.
>
> Doug
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, a work in progress review has been posted for the VMware
>> cinder driver integration with the OSLO common code
>> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70108/). The nova integration is currently
>> under progress.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vipin
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM
>> To: Donald Stufft
>> Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Vipin
>> Balachandran
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] VMware tools in oslo-incubator or
>> straight to oslo.vmware
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jan 28 2014, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> >
>> >> There are several reviews related to adding VMware interface code to
>> >> the
>> >> oslo-incubator so it can be shared among projects (start at
>> >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65075/7 if you want to look at the
>> >> code).
>> >>
>> >> I expect this code to be fairly stand-alone, so I wonder if we would be
>> >> better off creating an oslo.vmware library from the beginning, instead
>> >> of
>> >> bringing it through the incubator.
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?
>> >
>> > This sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't look OpenStack specific, so
>> > maybe building a non-oslo library would be better.
>> >
>> > Let's not zope it! :)
>>
>> +1 on not making it an oslo library.
>>
>>
>>
>> Given the number of issues we've seen with stackforge libs in the gate,
>> I've changed my default stance on this point.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's not clear from the code whether Vipin et al expect this library to be
>> useful for anyone not working with both OpenStack and VMware. Either way, I
>> anticipate having the library under the symmetric gating rules and managed
>> by the one of the OpenStack teams (oslo, nova, cinder?) and VMware
>> contributors should make life easier in the long run.
>>
>>
>>
>> As far as the actual name goes, I'm not set on "oslo.vmware" it was just a
>> convenient name for the conversation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Julien Danjou
>> > # Free Software hacker # independent consultant
>> > # http://julien.danjou.info
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