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Hi,
Thanks for the comments. I agree with you that this does not comply with the policy. I wanted to raise the issue as whoever is going to use the Neutron driver with stable/kilo will need these patches.
I will update the plugin wiki indicating that these two patches are required to get it working for stable/kilo.
Thanks
Gary

From: "Kuvaja, Erno" <kuvaja at hp.com<mailto:kuvaja at hp.com>>
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Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM
To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Stable][Nova] VMware NSXv Support

Hi Gary,

While I do understand the interest to get this functionality included, I really fail to see how it would comply with the Stable Branch Policy: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch#Stable_branch_policy
Obviously the last say is on stable-maint-core, but normally new features are really no-no to stable branches.

My concerns are more on the metadata side of your changes.
Even the refactoring is fairly clean it is major part of the metadata handler.
It also changes the API (In the case of X-Metadata-Provider being present) which tends to be sacred on stable branches.

The changes here does not actually fix any bug but just implements new functionality that missed kilo not even slightly but by months. Thus my -1 for merging these.


-          Erno

From: Gary Kotton [mailto:gkotton at vmware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:03 AM
To: OpenStack List
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Stable][Nova] VMware NSXv Support

Hi,
In the Kilo cycle a Neutron driver was added for supporting the Vmware NSXv plugin. This required patches in Nova to enable the plugin to work with Nova. These patches finally landed yesterday. I have back ported them to stable/kilo as the Neutron driver is unable to work without these in stable/kilo. The patches can be found at:

  1.  VNIC support - https://review.openstack.org/209372
  2.  Metadata support - https://review.openstack.org/209374
I hope that the stable team can take this into consideration.

Thanks in advance
Gary
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