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

matt matt at nycresistor.com
Fri Jan 30 00:11:40 UTC 2015


Is there a blue print or some set of bugs tagged in some way to tackle?

-matt

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:01 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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>
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