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Hi All:

Doug, thanks for the update and agree. On fwaas - we have some new
contributors who are enthusiastic to make things happen in N. But if
contributor priorities change and we struggle - will reach out to expedite
the removal.

Thanks

Sridar

On 5/5/16, 9:56 AM, "Doug Wiegley" <dougwig at parksidesoftware.com> wrote:

>Egads, that¹s a long subject prefix.  Anyways, we had a design session on
>the future of the advanced services:
>
>https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-neutron-future-adv-services
>
>In a nutshell, vpn and fw are critically lacking active contributors at
>present. Again. A proposal was made to remove them from the neutron
>stadium, effectively making them the equivalent of stackforge projects
>(openstack experimental in the new terminology.)  This was rejected in
>favor of giving them until Ocata-1 to retain stadium status, similar to
>the criteria laid out in the later neutron stadium discussion:
>
>https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-neutron-community-stadium-evolutio
>n
>
>Given how often we¹ve extended the lives of those two repos by yet
>another six months, this time we¹ll be looking for regular progress up to
>ocata-1, with final criteria being done (ish) by then. But, as agreed at
>the summit, if things go utterly dark post-summit, then you can expect to
>see governance patches to remove them from the stadium much faster than
>Ocata-1.
>
>After that session, but worth mentioning here, further discussions led to
>a proposal to make lbaas a standalone project, with a standalone
>endpoint, but adopting the current API:
>
>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/310805/
>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/310667/
>
>and here¹s a WIP governance patch for flavor:
>
>https://review.openstack.org/313056
>
>This achieved broad consensus among those present for the follow-up
>conversations (-1 nits on that patch aside), but please comment on any of
>those if you have comments/concerns.
>
>Next steps:
>
>- Monitor progress of vpn and fw.
>- Cleanup lbaas spinout specs, generate a timeline for minimum work
>required.
>
>Thanks,
>doug
>
>
>
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