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On 12/26/2016 06:08 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> We have the opportunity to again [1] ask a question in the upcoming user
> survey which will be conducted in February. We can ask one question and
> have it directed to either *users* of Nova, people *testing* nova, or
> people *interested* in using/adopting nova. Given the existing adoption
> of Nova in OpenStack deployments (98% as of October 2016) I think that
> sliding scale really only makes sense to direct a question at existing
> users of the project. It's also suggested that for projects with over
> 50% adoption to make the question quantitative rather than qualitative.
>
> We have until January 9th to submit a question. If you have any
> quantitative questions about Nova to users, please reply to this thread
> before then.
>
> Personally I tend to be interested in feedback on recent development, so
> I'd like to ask questions about cells v2 or the placement API, i.e. they
> were optional in Newton but how many deployments that have upgraded to
> Newton are deploying those features (maybe also noting they will be
> required to upgrade to Ocata)? However, the other side of me knows that
> most major production deployments are also lagging behind by a few
> releases, and may only now be upgrading, or planning to upgrade, to
> Mitaka since we've recently end-of-life'd the Liberty release. So asking
> questions about cells v2 or the placement service is probably premature.
> It might be better to ask about microversion adoption, i.e. if you're
> monitoring API request traffic to your cloud, what % of compute API
> requests are using a microversion > 2.1.

My vote would be to ask the following question:

Have you considered using (or already chosen) an alternative to 
OpenStack Nova for launching your software workloads? If you have, 
please list one to three reasons why you chose this alternative.

Thanks,
-jay