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On 1/29/2015 7:42 PM, Michael Still wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>> There is an ec2 bug tag in launchpad. I would link to it except I am writing
>> this offline. I will fix that later today.
>
> Ok, now that the 40 seater turbo prop has landed, here we go:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=ec2
>
>> However I think what we've shown is that moving this code out of nova is the
>> future. I would like to see someone come up with a plan to transition users
>> to the stackforge project. That seems the best way forward at this point.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>> On 30 Jan 2015 11:11 am, "matt" <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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Also the spec here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147882/

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann