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On 07/17/2014 02:42 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> I'd like to announce that we finally got the glance.store repo created.
>
> This library pulls out of glance the code related to stores. Not many
> changes were made to the API during this process. The main goal, for
> now, is to switch glance over and keep backwards compatibility with
> Glance to reduce the number of changes required. We'll improve and
> revamp the store API during K - FWIW, I've a spec draft with ideas for it.

Link to that spec? It's important for some other in-flight nova-specs 
around zero-copy image handling and refactoring the nova.image module.

> The library still needs some work and this is a perfect moment for
> anyone interested to chime in and contribute to the library. Some things
> that are missing:
>
> - Swift store (Nikhil is working on this)

? Why wasn't the existing glance.store.swift used?

Best,
-jay

> - Sync latest changes made to the store code.
>
> If you've recently made changes to any of the stores, please go ahead
> and contribute them back to `glance.store` or let me know so I can do it.
>
> I'd also like to ask reviewers to request contributions to the `store`
> code in glance to be proposed to `glance.store` as well. This way, we'll
> be able to keep parity.
>
> I'll be releasing an alpha version soon so we can start reviewing the
> glance switch-over. We won't obviously merge it until we have feature
> parity.
>
> Any feedback is obviously very welcome,
> Cheers,
> Flavio
>