[openstack-dev] [nova] Progressing/tracking work on libvirt / vif drivers

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jun 1 13:23:12 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:44:24AM +0100, John Garbutt wrote:
> On 29 May 2015 at 18:32, Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram at metaswitch.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Per yesterday's IRC meeting [1], and discussion in Vancouver, Nova work is
> > being somewhat driven by the etherpad at [2].  But this etherpad doesn't
> > have a section for libvirt / vif driver changes.  The log at [1] briefly
> > touched on this, but moved on after noting that Dan PB had disbanded a
> > libvirt subteam for lack of interest.
> 
> Apologies, I am not nearly half way through writing up all that came
> out of the summit. A few nasty bugs in production kept me occupied
> last week, but I have got out of that now / fixed them, I hope.
> 
> In the design summit session we said any group of people can
> self-organise and start proposing patches as "ready to merge" by that
> sub team, in here:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-priorities-tracking
> 
> We agreed that if there were too many sub teams, we would ask the
> teams to join together. And I hope some subteams find each other on
> that etherpad, and organically decide its best to join forces.
> 
> While we have established patterns of successful sub team
> collaborations (IRC meetings, bug tags, etc), feel free to do whatever
> works, assuming its aligned with the Open nature of our community
> (i.e. I expect code reviews to be done in gerrit, not using some
> internal communication channel. Even if you review face to face, I
> would appreciate you writing up the outcome in gerrit).
> 
> > So, what should folk interested in libvirt / vif work (including me) now do?
> > I think the answer is that we should self-organize, then report to the next
> > IRC on how we've done that, and I'm happy to lead that if no one else wants
> > to - but is there someone else who should or wants to own this?
> 
> In summary, yes please, sounds good.
> 
> I would reach out to Dan, and the other folks who were active in those
> meetings, to see how it best makes sense to collaborate. Let me know
> if I can help connect you folks, but IRC usually works.

I'm mostly just lurking on IRC but keep an eye out on this mailing list
for anything tagged with [nova]. So if there's any times my input is
needed I should catch the mails as long as they're on the list.

Regards,
Daniel
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