[openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

Alexandre Levine alevine at cloudscaling.com
Thu Feb 5 12:01:22 UTC 2015


Davanum,

We've added the devstack support. It's in our stackforge repository.
https://github.com/stackforge/ec2-api/tree/master/contrib/devstack

Best regards,
   Alex Levine

On 1/31/15 2:21 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> Alexandre, Randy,
>
> Are there plans afoot to add support to switch on stackforge/ec2-api
> in devstack? add tempest tests etc? CI Would go a long way in
> alleviating concerns i think.
>
> thanks,
> dims
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Bias, Randy <Randy.Bias at emc.com> wrote:
>> As you know we have been driving forward on the stack forge project and
>> it¹s our intention to continue to support it over time, plus reinvigorate
>> the GCE APIs when that makes sense. So we¹re supportive of deprecating
>> from Nova to focus on EC2 API in Nova.  I also think it¹s good for these
>> APIs to be able to iterate outside of the standard release cycle.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Randy
>>
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>> On 1/29/15, 4:01 PM, "Michael Still" <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API
>>> implementation is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those
>>> details here -- you can read the thread on openstack-dev for detail.
>>>
>>> However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova
>>> for the EC2 API. This is despite repeated calls over the last 18
>>> months (at least).
>>>
>>> So, does the Foundation have a role here? The Nova team has failed to
>>> find someone to help us resolve these issues. Can the board perhaps
>>> find resources as the representatives of some of the largest
>>> contributors to OpenStack? Could the Foundation employ someone to help
>>> us our here?
>>>
>>> I suspect the correct plan is to work on getting the stackforge
>>> replacement finished, and ensuring that it is feature compatible with
>>> the Nova implementation. However, I don't want to preempt the design
>>> process -- there might be other ways forward here.
>>>
>>> I feel that a continued discussion which just repeats the last 18
>>> months wont actually fix the situation -- its time to "break out" of
>>> that mode and find other ways to try and get someone working on this
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Thoughts welcome.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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>>> Rackspace Australia
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