[openstack-dev] [Glance] [api] Community Images Impasse

Brian Rosmaita brian.rosmaita at RACKSPACE.COM
Tue Nov 15 16:35:07 UTC 2016


Adding '[api]' to subject to get API-WG attention.

On 11/15/16, 11:26 AM, "Ian Cordasco" <sigmavirus24 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>One of our priorities for Ocata-1 (whose deadline Glance has set for
>17 November 2016) is the Community Images work that has been discussed
>now for several cycles and prioritized since the end of Newton.
>
>Like we often do in Glance, we've reached an impasse in the 11th hour.
>To summarize, some of us are concerned about migrating the default
>image visibility value to "shared" although it's semantically
>equivalent to what we already have. At first the concern was that this
>was not part of the spec (although, in my opinion it was a natural
>conclusion of the spec) so Brian helpfully updated that here:
>https://review.openstack.org/396919
>
>Some good points have been made about the confusion this might cause
>among users if Glance 14.0.0 is released with the code like this. As
>it stands, we have already approved much of this as a community and
>committed to its completion. Nothing is set in stone, however, so
>getting as much feedback on the updates to the spec as possible will
>be very helpful in sorting this out efficiently.
>
>All of that said, Timothy Symanczyk has been leading this effort and
>is being moved onto other work by his employer. We need to decide
>whether or not to accept Timothy's work and build upon it, or have
>someone take over the work from him. Timothy has been incredibly
>responsive to review comments on the work itself
>(https://review.openstack.org/369110) and I'd appreciate it if we
>could respect that effort by being equally responsive in the
>discussions on the spec review.
>
>Thank you in advance to everyone who can pitch in,
>--
>Ian Cordasco




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