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On 9/7/2016 8:47 AM, John Griffith wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Alon Marx <ALONMA at il.ibm.com
> <mailto:ALONMA at il.ibm.com>> wrote:
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>     I want to share our plans to open the IBM Storage driver source
>     code. Historically we started our way in cinder way back (in Essex
>     if I'm not mistaken)
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> ​You're mistaken, Cinder didn't exist at that time... but it's irrelevant.
> ​
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>     with just a small piece of code in the community while keeping most
>     of the driver code closed. Since then the code has grown, but we
>     kept with the same format. We would like now to open the driver
>     source code, while keeping the connectivity to the storage as closed
>     source.
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> ​It might help to know *which* driver you are referring to.  IBM has a
> number of Storwiz and GPFS drivers in Cinder... what drivers are you
> referring to here?​
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>     I believe that there are other cinder drivers that have some stuff
>     in proprietary libraries.
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> ​Actually we've had a hard stance on this, if you have code in Cinder
> that requires an external lib (I personally hate this model) we
> typically require it to be open source.
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>     I want to propose and formalize the principles to where we draw the
>     line (this has also been discussed in
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/341780/
>     <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/341780/>) on what's acceptable by
>     the community.
>     ​
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>     Based on previous discussion I understand that the rule of thumb is
>     "as long as the majority of the driver logic is in the public
>     driver" the community would be fine with that. Is this acceptable to
>     the community?
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> ​No, I don't think that's true.  It's quite possible that some people
> make those sorts of statements but frankly their missing the entire point.
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> In case you weren't aware, OpenStack IS an OPEN SOURCE project, not a
> proprietary or hybrid project.  We are VERY clear as a community about
> that fact and what we call the "4 Opens" [1].  It's my opinion that if
> you're in then you're ALL in.​
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> [1]: https://governance.openstack.org/reference/opens.html
> ​
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>     Regards,
>     Alon
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I'm assuming this is the XIV driver which is a shim:

https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/drivers/ibm/ibm_storage.py

As for the open source part of it, vcenter isn't open source but there 
is a vmdk driver to talk to it, I imagine this is similar.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann