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On 09/04/2014 04:25 AM, Sergey Nikitin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to ask for a feature freeze exception for the instance tags API
> extension:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/97168/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/103553/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/107712/
>
> approved spec https://review.openstack.org/#/c/91444/
> blueprint was approved, but its status was changed to "Pending Approval"
> because of FF. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/tag-instances
>
> The first of these patches has got a +2 from Jay Pipes.
> The second was already approved by Jay Pipes and Matt Dietz.
>
> This set of patches was pretty close to merge, but FF came.
>
> In most popular REST API interfaces, objects in the domain model can be
> "tagged" with zero or more simple strings. This feature will allow
> normal users to add, remove and list tags for an instance and filter
> instances by tags.
> Also these changes will allow to use tags to "tag" other nova objects in
> future because created Tag object is universal and any nova object with
> id could be tagged by it.
>
> Please consider this feature to be a part of Juno-3 release.

I will sponsor this. It's a useful feature and the patch series has had 
multiple +2s from cores. It also has little risk of instability due to 
not really touching much outside of the additional feature pieces.

-jay