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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Dina Belova <dbelova at mirantis.com> wrote:
> Hello, folks!
>
> I'd like to request Climate project review for incubation. Here is official
> incubation application:
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Climate/Incubation

I'm unclear on what Climate is trying to solve. I read the 'Detailed
Description' from the link above, and it states Climate is trying to
solve two uses cases (and the more generalized cases of those).

1) Compute host reservation (when user with admin privileges can
reserve hardware resources that are dedicated to the sole use of a
tenant)
2) Virtual machine (instance) reservation (when user may ask
reservation service to provide him working VM not necessary now, but
also in the future)

You want to support being able to reserve an instance in the future.
As a cloud operator how do I take advantage of that information? As a
cloud consumer, what is the benefit? Today OpenStack supports both
uses cases, except it can't request an Instance for the future.


>
> Additionally due to the project scope and the roadmap, we don't see any
> currently existing OpenStack program that fits Climate. So we've prepared
> new program request too:
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Climate/Program
>
> TL;DR
>
> Our team is working on providing OpenStack with resource reservation
> opportunity in time-based manner, including close integration with all other
> OS projects.
>
> As Climate initiative is targeting to provide not only compute resources
> revervation, but also volumes, network resources, storage nodes reservation
> opportunity, we consider it is not about being a part of some existing
> OpenStack program.
>
> This initiative needs to become a part of completely new Resource
> Reservation Program, that aims to implement time-based cloud resource
> management.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dina Belova
>
> Climate Technical Lead
>
> Software Engineer
>
> Mirantis Inc.
>
>
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