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On 03/27/2015 01:40 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chris Friesen" <chris.friesen at windriver.com>

>> So for the case where a customer really wants some functionality, and
>> wants it *soon* rather than waiting for it to get merged upstream, what is
>> the recommended implementation path for a vendor?
>
> Well, before all else the key is to at least propose it in the community and
> see what the appetite for it is. I think part of the problem here is that
> we're still discussing this mostly in the abstract, although you provided
> some high level examples in response to Sean the only link was to a review
> that merged the same day it was proposed (albeit in 2012). I'm interested in
> whether there is a specific proposal you can link to that you put forward in
> the past and it wasn't accepted or was held up or whether you are working on
> a preset assumption here?

Whoops...I had meant to link to "https://review.openstack.org/163060" and 
managed to miss the last character.  My bad.  The API change I was talking about 
has now been split out to "https://review.openstack.org/168418".

I haven't proposed any features (with spec/blueprint) for kilo or earlier.  I'm 
planning on proposing some for the L release.  (Some are already in for review, 
though I realize they're not going to get attention until Kilo is out.)

I may be making invalid assumptions about how long it takes to get things done, 
but if so it's coloured by past experience.

Some examples:

I proposed a one-line trivial change in April of last year and it took almost 2 
months before anyone even looked at it.

I reported "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1213224" in 2013 and it hasn't 
been fixed.

I opened "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1289064" over a year ago, 
proposed a fix (which admittedly had flaws), then handed it off to someone else, 
then it bounced around a few other people and still isn't resolved.

I opened "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1284719" over a year ago and it's 
not yet resolved.

I opened "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1298690" a year ago and it hasn't 
been touched.


Chris