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On 09/25/2015 12:14 PM, Edgar Magana wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> I just added my comment on the review. I do agree with Emilien. There should be specific repos for plugins and drivers.
> 
> BTW. I love the sdnmagic name  ;-)
> 
> Edgar
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/25/15, 9:02 AM, "Emilien Macchi" <emilien at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> In our last meeting [1], we were discussing about whether managing or
>> not external packaging repositories for Neutron plugin dependencies.
>>
>> Current situation:
>> puppet-neutron is installing (packages like neutron-plugin-*) &
>> configure Neutron plugins (configuration files like
>> /etc/neutron/plugins/*.ini
>> Some plugins (Cisco) are doing more: they install third party packages
>> (not part of OpenStack), from external repos.
>>
>> The question is: should we continue that way and accept that kind of
>> patch [2]?
>>
>> I vote for no: managing external packages & external repositories should
>> be up to an external more.
>> Example: my SDN tool is called "sdnmagic":
>> 1/ patch puppet-neutron to manage neutron-plugin-sdnmagic package and
>> configure the .ini file(s) to make it work in Neutron
>> 2/ create puppet-sdnmagic that will take care of everything else:
>> install sdnmagic, manage packaging (and specific dependencies),
>> repositories, etc.
>> I -1 puppet-neutron should handle it. We are not managing SDN soltution:
>> we are enabling puppet-neutron to work with them.
>>
>> I would like to find a consensus here, that will be consistent across
>> *all plugins* without exception.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback,
>>
>> [1] http://goo.gl/zehmN2
>> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/209997/
>> -- 
>> Emilien Macchi
>>
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I think the data point provided by the Cinder situation needs to be
considered in this decision: https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila/+bug/1499334

The bug report outlines the issue, but the tl;dr is that one Cinder
driver changed their licensing on a library required to run in tree code.

Thanks,
Anita.