[openstack-dev] [neutron] New cycle started. What are you up to, folks?

Armando M. armamig at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 16:06:08 UTC 2015


On 1 October 2015 at 08:42, Sean M. Collins <sean at coreitpro.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:05:29AM EDT, Kyle Mestery wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Sean M. Collins <sean at coreitpro.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:02:24AM EDT, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> > > > - more changes with less infra tinkering! neutron devs should not
> need
> > > to go to infra projects so often to make an impact;
> > > > -- make our little neat DevStack plugin used for qos and sr-iov only
> a
> > > huge pile of bash code that is currently stored in DevStack and is
> proudly
> > > called neutron-legacy now; and make the latter obsolete and eventually
> > > removed from DevStack;
> > >
> > > We may need to discuss this. I am currently doing a refactor of the
> > > Neutron DevStack integration in
> > >
> > > https://review.openstack.org/168438
> > >
> > > If I understand your message correctly, I disagree that we should be
> > > moving all the DevStack support for Neutron out of DevStack and making
> > > it a plugin. All that does is move the mess from one corner of the
> room,
> > > to another corner.
> > >
> > >
> > I would actually be in favor of cleaning up the mess AND moving it into
> > neutron. If it's in Neutron, we control our own destiny with regards to
> > landing patches which affect DevStack and ultimately our gate jobs. To
> me,
> > that's a huge win-win. Thus, cleanup first, then move to Neutron.
>
> Frankly we have a bad track record in DevStack, if we are to make an
> argument about controlling our own destiny. Neutron-lib is in a sad
> state of affairs because we haven't had the discipline to keep things
> simple.
>

IMO we can't make these statements otherwise what's the point in looking
forward if all we do is base our actions on some _indelible_ past?

As for the rest, I am gonna let this thread sink in a bit before I come up
with a more elaborate answer that this thread deserves.


>
> In fact, I think the whole genesis of the Neutron plugin for DevStack is
> a great example of how controlling our own destiny has started to grow
> the mess. Yes, we needed it to gate the QoS code. But now things are
> starting to get added.
>
>
> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/bd07b74045d93c46483aa261b8686072d9b448e8
>
> The trend is now that people are going to throw things into the Neutron
> DevStack plugin to get their doo-dad up and running, because making a
> new repo is harder than creating a patch (which maybe shows are repo
> creation process needs streamlining). I was originally for making
> Neutron DevStack plugins that exist in their own repos, instead of
> putting them in the Neutron tree. At least that makes things small,
> manageable, and straight forward. Yes, it makes for more plugin lines in
> your DevStack configuration, but at least you know what each one does,
> instead of being an agglomeration.
>
> If we are not careful, the Neutron DevStack plugin will grow into the big
> mess that neutron-legacy is.
>
> Finally, Look at how many configuration knobs we have, and how there is
> a tendency to introduce new ones, instead of using local.conf to inject
> configuration into Neutron and the associated components. This ends up
> making it very complicated for someone to actually run Neutron in their
> DevStack, and I think a lot of people would give up and just run
> Nova-Network, which I will note is *still the default*.
>
> We need to keep our ties strong with other projects, and improve them in
> some cases. I think culturally, if we start trying to move things into
> our corner of the sandbox because working with other groups is hard, we
> send bad signals to others. This will eventually come back to bite us.
>
> /rant
>
> --
> Sean M. Collins
>
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