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On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 01:36:04PM +0000, Gary Kotton wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I do not think that Nova is in a death spiral. I just think that the
>> current way of working at the moment is strangling the project. I do not
>> understand why we need to split drivers out of the core project. Why not
>> have the ability to provide Œcore review¹ status to people for reviewing
>> those parts of the code? We have enough talented people in OpenStack to be
>> able to write a driver above gerrit to enable that.
> 
> The consensus view at the summit was that, having tried & failed at getting
> useful changes into gerrit, it is not a viable option unless we undertake a
> permanent fork of the code base. There didn't seem to be any apetite for
> maintaining & developing a large java app ourselves. So people we're looking
> to start writing a replacement for gerrit from scratch (albeit reusing the
> database schema).

I don’t think this is a viable option for us, but if we were going to do it,
we would probably be better off using https://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
as a base, since it is actually written in python.

Vish

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