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Thanks all for a good discussion. 

I would like to call for an agreement on this subject in Wednesday's (Oct 
8th) Heat IRC meeting. It has been added in the agenda.

Thanks!


Regards, 
Sahdev Zala 
IBM SWG Standards Strategy 
Durham, NC 
(919)486-2915 T/L: 526-2915 



From:   Steven Hardy <shardy at redhat.com>
To:     "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date:   09/23/2014 05:46 AM
Subject:        Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Request for python-heatclient 
project to adopt heat-translator



On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 06:54:27PM -0400, Zane Bitter wrote:
> On 09/09/14 05:52, Steven Hardy wrote:
> >Hi Sahdev,
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:52:30AM -0400, Sahdev P Zala wrote:
> >>    Hello guys,
> >>
> >>    As you know, the heat-translator project was started early this 
year with
> >>    an aim to create a tool to translate non-Heat templates to HOT. It 
is a
> >>    StackForge project licensed under Apache 2. We have made good 
progress
> >>    with its development and a demo was given at the OpenStack 2014 
Atlanta
> >>    summit during a half-a-day session that was dedicated to 
heat-translator
> >>    project and related TOSCA discussion. Currently the development 
and
> >>    testing is done with the TOSCA template format but the tool is 
designed to
> >>    be generic enough to work with templates other than TOSCA. There 
are five
> >>    developers actively contributing to the development. In addition, 
all
> >>    current Heat core members are already core members of the 
heat-translator
> >>    project.
> >>
> >>    Recently, I attended Heat Mid Cycle Meet Up for Juno in Raleigh 
and
> >>    updated the attendees on heat-translator project and ongoing 
progress. I
> >>    also requested everyone for a formal adoption of the project in 
the
> >>    python-heatclient and the consensus was that it is the right thing 
to do.
> >>    Also when the project was started, the initial plan was to make it
> >>    available in python-heatclient. Hereby, the heat-translator team 
would
> >>    like to make a request to have the heat-translator project to be 
adopted
> >>    by the python-heatclient/Heat program.
> >
> >Obviously I wasn't at the meetup, so I may be missing some context 
here,
> >but can you answer some questions please?
> >
> >- Is the scope for heat-translator only tosca simple-profile, or also 
the
> >   original more heavyweight tosca too?
> >
> >- If it's only tosca simple-profile, has any thought been given to 
moving
> >   towards implementing support via a template parser plugin, rather 
than
> >   baking the translation into the client?
> 
> One idea we discussed at the meetup was to use the template-building 
code
> that we now have in Heat for building the HOT output from the translator 
-
> e.g. the translator would produce ResourceDefinition objects and add 
them to
> a HOTemplate object.
> 
> That would actually get us a long way toward an implementation of a 
template
> format plugin (which basically just has to spit out ResourceDefinition
> objects). So maybe that approach would allow us to start in
> python-heatclient and easily move it later into being a full-fledged
> template format plugin in Heat itself.
> 
> >While I see this effort as valuable, integrating the translator into 
the
> >client seems the worst of all worlds to me:
> >
> >- Any users/services not intefacing to heat via python-heatclient can't 
use it
> 
> Yep, this is a big downside (although presumably we'd want to build in a 
way
> to just spit out the generated template that can be used by other 
clients).
> 
> On the other hand, there is a big downside to having it (only) in Heat 
also
> - you're dependent on the operator deciding to provide it.
> 
> >- You prempt the decision about integration with any higher level 
services,
> >   e.g Mistral, Murano, Solum, if you bake in the translator at the
> >   heat level.
> 
> Not sure I understand this one.

I meant if non-simple TOSCA was in scope, would it make sense to bake the
translation in at the heat level, when there are aspects of the DSL which
we will never support (but some higher layer might).

Given Sahdev's response saying simple-profile is all that is currently in
scope, it's probably a non-issue, I just wanted to clarify if heat was the
right place for this translation.

Steve

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