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On 09/15/2015 03:13 PM, stuart.mclaren at hp.com wrote:
>>
>> After having some conversations with folks at the Ops Midcycle a
>> few weeks ago, and observing some of the more recent email threads
>> related to glance, glance-store, the client, and the API, I spent
>> last week contacting a few of you individually to learn more about
>> some of the issues confronting the Glance team. I had some very
>> frank, but I think constructive, conversations with all of you about
>> the issues as you see them. As promised, this is the public email
>> thread to discuss what I found, and to see if we can agree on what
>> the Glance team should be focusing on going into the Mitaka summit
>> and development cycle and how the rest of the community can support
>> you in those efforts.
>
> Doug, thanks for reaching out here.
>
> I've been looking into the existing task-based-upload that Doug mentions:
> can anyone clarify the following?
>
> On a default devstack install you can do this 'task' call:
>
> http://paste.openstack.org/show/462919

Yup. That's the one.

> as an alternative to the traditional image upload (the bytes are streamed
> from the URL).
>
> It's not clear to me if this is just an interesting example of the kind
> of operator specific thing you can configure tasks to do, or a real
> attempt to define an alternative way to upload images.
>
> The change which added it [1] calls it a 'sample'.
>
> Is it just an example, or is it a second 'official' upload path?

It's how you have to upload images on Rackspace. If you want to see the 
full fun:

https://github.com/openstack-infra/shade/blob/master/shade/__init__.py#L1335-L1510

Which is "I want to upload an image to an OpenStack Cloud"

I've listed it on this slide in CLI format too:

http://inaugust.com/talks/product-management/index.html#/27

It should be noted that once you create the task, you need to poll the 
task with task-show, and then the image id will be in the completed 
task-show output.

Monty