[openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova
Davanum Srinivas
davanum at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 17:12:13 UTC 2015
Alex,
Very cool. thanks.
-- dims
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Alexandre Levine
<alevine at cloudscaling.com> wrote:
> Davanum,
>
> Now that the picture with the both EC2 API solutions has cleared up a bit, I
> can say yes, we'll be adding the tempest tests and doing devstack
> integration.
>
> 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
>>>
>>> VP, Technology, EMC Corporation
>>> Formerly Founder & CEO, Cloudscaling (now a part of EMC)
>>> +1 (415) 787-2253 [google voice]
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>>> ASSISTANT: ren.ly at emc.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rackspace Australia
>>>>
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>>>
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