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Hi Mikal, sorry for top-posting. What was the final decision regarding 
the instance tagging work?

Thanks,
-jay

On 02/16/2015 09:44 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we had a meeting this morning to try and work through all the FFE
> requests for Nova. The meeting was pretty long -- two hours or so --
> and we did in in the nova IRC channel in an attempt to be as open as
> possible. The agenda for the meeting was the list of FFE requests at
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-nova-ffe-requests
>
> I recognise that this process is difficult for all, and that it is
> frustrating when your FFE request is denied. However, we have tried
> very hard to balance distractions from completing priority tasks and
> getting as many features into Kilo as possible. I ask for your
> patience as we work to finalize the Kilo release.
>
> That said, here's where we ended up:
>
> Approved:
>
>      vmware: ephemeral disk support
>      API: Keypair support for X509 public key certificates
>
> We were also presented with a fair few changes which are relatively
> trivial (single patch, not very long) and isolated to a small part of
> the code base. For those, we've selected the ones with the greatest
> benefit. These ones are approved so long as we can get the code merged
> before midnight on 20 February 2015 (UTC). The deadline has been
> introduced because we really are trying to focus on priority work and
> bug fixes for the remainder of the release, so I want to time box the
> amount of distraction these patches cause.
>
> Those approved in this way are:
>
>      ironic: Pass the capabilities to ironic node instance_info
>      libvirt: Nova vif driver plugin for opencontrail
>      libvirt: Quiescing filesystems with QEMU guest agent during image
> snapshotting
>      libvirt: Support vhost user in libvirt vif driver
>      libvirt: Support KVM/libvirt on System z (S/390) as a hypervisor platform
>
> It should be noted that there was one request which we decided didn't
> need a FFE as it isn't feature work. That may proceed:
>
>      hyperv: unit tests refactoring
>
> Finally, there were a couple of changes we were uncomfortable merging
> this late in the release as we think they need time to "bed down"
> before a release we consider stable for a long time. We'd like to see
> these merge very early in Liberty:
>
>      libvirt: use libvirt storage pools
>      libvirt: Generic Framework for Securing VNC and SPICE
> Proxy-To-Compute-Node Connections
>
> Thanks again to everyone with their patience with our process, and
> helping to make Kilo an excellent Nova release.
>
> Michael
>