Open Stack

On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 01:21 -0400, Nikhil Komawar wrote:
> 3. ease of addition of newer drivers for the developers -- drivers 
> are
> only being removed since.

The OpenStack team at Scality developed a Glance Store driver for RING,
currently out-of-tree to get to a first fully-working version (
https://github.com/scality/scality-glance-store), but with the
intention from day 1 to propose this driver for inclusion in the
upstream glance-store project, following the standard OpenStack
processes.

Whilst as you say new drivers haven't been proposed since the split,
this could be explained by the fact the way Glance is designed now
explicitly supports out-of-tree drivers (in glance-store or elsewhere)?

We have a couple of questions related to this proposal:

- Would folding glance-store back into glance have any impact on the
process (or reluctance) to include new third-party drivers?

- Will the glance-store core reviewer team be merged back into glance,
focusing on the store drivers?

Nicolas