[openstack-dev] [Glance][TC][Heat][App-Catalog][Murano][Tacker] Glare as a new Project

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Fri Aug 5 07:58:01 UTC 2016


On 04/08/16 15:46 +0000, Alexander Tivelkov wrote:
>I am the one who started the initiative 2.5 years ago, and was always
>advocating the "let's stay in Glance" approach during numerous discussions
>on "where should it belong" for all these years.
>Now I believe that it is time to move forward indeed. Some things remain to
>be defined (first of all the differences and responsibility sharing between
>Images and Artifacts APIs), but I am fully supportive of this move and
>strongly believe it is a step in a right direction. Thanks Mike, Nikhil,
>Flavio, Erno, Stuart, Brian and all others who helped Glare on this rough
>path.


Thank you all for putting up with the Glance team changes of priorities. I
appreaciate all the effort you have put on this.

Flavio

>
>
>On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:29 PM Mikhail Fedosin <mfedosin at mirantis.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> after 6 months of Glare v1 API development we have decided to continue our
>> work in a separate project in the "openstack" namespace with its own core
>> team (me, Kairat Kushaev, Darja Shkhray and the original creator -
>> Alexander Tivelkov). We want to thank Glance community for their support
>> during the incubation period, valuable advice and suggestions - this time
>> was really productive for us. I believe that this step will allow the Glare
>> project to concentrate on feature development and move forward faster.
>> Having the independent service also removes inconsistencies in
>> understanding what Glance project is: it seems that a single project cannot
>> own two different APIs with partially overlapping functionality. So with
>> the separation of Glare into a new project, Glance may continue its work on
>> the OpenStack Images API, while Glare will become the reference
>> implementation of the new OpenStack Artifacts API.
>>
>> Nevertheless, Glare team would like to continue to collaborate with the
>> Glance team in a new - cross-project - format. We still have lots in
>> common, both in code and usage scenarios, so we are looking forward for
>> fruitful work with the rest of the Glance team. Those of you guys who are
>> interested in Glare and the future of Artifacts API are also welcome to
>> join the Glare team: we have a lot of really exciting tasks and will always
>> welcome new members.
>> Meanwhile, despite the fact that my focus will be on the new project, I
>> will continue to be part of the Glance team and for sure I'm going to
>> contribute in Glance, because I am interested in this project and want to
>> help it be successful.
>>
>> We'll have the formal patches pushed to project-config earlier next week,
>> appropriate repositories, wiki and launchpad space will be created soon as
>> well.  Our regular weekly IRC meeting remains intact: it is 17:30 UTC
>> Mondays in #openstack-meeting-alt, it will just become a Glare project
>> meeting instead of a Glare sub-team meeting. Please feel free to join!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mikhail Fedosin
>>
>> P.S. For those of you who may be curious on the project name. We'll still
>> be called "Glare", but since we are on our own now this acronym becomes
>> recursive: GLARE now stands for "GLare Artifact REpository" :)
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>Alexander Tivelkov

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