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Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote on 05/06/2016 08:20:45 PM:

> From: Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List 
<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 05/06/2016 08:23 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [neutron][osc] Austin Design summit summary
> on the future of Neutron client
> 
> n Austin we had a session on the future of neutron client and
> discussed the CLI transition to OpenStack Client (OSC).
> The session etherpad is found at [1].
> 
> * We checked the progress of OSC transition and it is good.
>   Support of 11 resources which are targets of the initial effort.
>   In Newton cycle, we will focus on achieving the feature parity to
> the existing 'neutron' CLI.
> 
> * We agreed that OSC support for neutron advanced services will be
> done via OSC plugin.
>   BGP stuff (neutron-dynamic-routing) will be supported via OSC 
> plugin as well.
>   neutron-dynamic-routing needs to be added to the list at [2].

Thanks for the summary Akihiro. Here's the patch set to add BGP:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/313865/

>   Future official sub projects (possibly like sfc, l2gw) will be
> handled in the same way.
> 
> * CLI support for new features should be implemented in OpenStack
> Client (and openstacksdk).
>   All should go to OSC. neutronclient CLI support is optional.
>   Around the feature freeze, neutron and openstackclient team will
> communicate more closely to coordinate a new release.
> 
> * python bindings in neutronclient:
>   All features provided by the main neutron repo will be supported by
> openstackclient and openstacksdk.
>   python bindings in the python-neutronclient need to be added only if
> an openstack service needs to use the bindings.
>   (for example, get-me-a-network python binding is required by nova.)
> 
> * A discussion about where is an appropriate place for admin commands,
>   OSC repo vs OSC plugin in the python-neutronclient repo.
>   If admin commands are provided by OSC plugin, it will reduce the
> number of commands that regular users will see.
>   On the other hand, API permissions can be configured by the policy.
> One option is to install the OSC plugin
>   which provides admin commands if users want to use them.
>   In my understanding, there is no actual consensus in the session.
>   (Note that the similar discussion happend for nova OSC support in
> the dev list after the summit. [3])
> 
> Thanks,
> Akihiro
> 
> [1] 
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-neutron-future-neutron-client
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/python-neutronclient/blob/master/
> doc/source/devref/transition_to_osc.rst#developer-guide
> [3] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/093955.html
> 
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