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On 07/17/2014 12:19 PM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> On 07/17/2014 04:56 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> 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.
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/create-store-package

Thanks!

>>> 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?
>>
>
> It'll be used, it hasn't been ported yet. Porting means applying the
> small changes we did to the store API. It's on the works and it will
> hopefully be up soon.

Got it,
-jay

> Cheers,
> Flavio
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
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