[openstack-dev] [cinder] Rebranded Volume Drivers

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Wed Jun 3 17:45:57 UTC 2015


On 06/03/2015 01:32 PM, Mike Perez wrote:
> There are a couple of cases [1][2] I'm seeing where new Cinder volume
> drivers for Liberty are rebranding other volume drivers. This involves
> inheriting off another volume driver's class(es) and providing some
> config options to set the backend name, etc.
> 
> Two problems:
> 
> 1) There is a thought of no CI [3] is needed, since you're using
> another vendor's driver code which does have a CI.
> 
> 2) IMO another way of satisfying a check mark of being OpenStack
> supported and disappearing from the community.
> 
> What gain does OpenStack get from these kind of drivers?

To CI or not to CI? That is up to the cinder team to decide. Any CI
account in gerrit needs to follow the infra requirements, anything else
is up to the project to decide, in this case, cinder.

Thanks Mike,
Anita.

> 
> Discuss.
> 
> [1] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/187853/
> [2] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/187707/4
> [3] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers
> 
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> Mike Perez
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