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Hi Everyone:

As Mitaka branch was cut yesterday, I would like to request a backport
exception to get gnocchi patches[1][2][3] into stable/mitaka. It
should low risk feature as we decided not to set ceilometer to use
gnocchi by default. So ceilometer would work as is and gnocchi is
deployed along side as a new service but not used out of the box. So
this should make upgrades pretty much a non issues as things should
work exactly like before. If someone want to use gnocchi backend, they
can add an env template file to override the backend. In Netwon, we'll
flip the switch to make gnocchi the default backend.

If we can please vote to agree to get this in as an exception it would
be super useful.

Thanks,
~ Prad

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/252032/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/290710/
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/238013/