[openstack-dev] [tc][nova][mogan] How to show respect to the original authors?
Zhenguo Niu
niu.zglinux at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 01:35:09 UTC 2017
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Zhenguo,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up.
>
> For #1, yes please indicate which file from Nova, so if anyone wanted
> to cross check for fixes etc can go look in Nova
> For #2, When you pick up a commit from Nova, please make sure the
> commit message in Mogan has the following
> * The gerrit change id(s) of the original commit, so folks can
> easily go find the original commit in gerritt
> * Add "Co-Authored-By:" tags for each author in the original commit
> so they get credit
>
> Also, Please make sure you do not alter any copyright or license
> related information in the header when you first copy a file from
> another project.
>
Sure, we will keep the original copyright and license in the header.
>
> Thanks,
> Dims
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Zhenguo Niu <niu.zglinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm from Mogan team, we copied some codes/frameworks from Nova since we
> want
> > to be a Nova with a bare metal specific API.
> > About why reinventing the wheel, you can find more informations here [1].
> >
> > I would like to know what's the decent way to show our respect to the
> > original authors we copied from.
> >
> > After discussing with the team, we plan to do some improvements as below:
> >
> > 1. Adds some comments to the beginning of such files to indicate that
> they
> > leveraged the implementation of Nova.
> >
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> baremetal/ironic/driver.py#L19
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> console/websocketproxy.py#L17-L18
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> consoleauth/manager.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> engine/configdrive.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> engine/metadata.py#L18
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/network/api.py#L18
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> objects/aggregate.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> objects/keypair.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> objects/server_fault.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> objects/server_group.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> scheduler/client/report.py#L17
> > https://github.com/openstack/mogan/blob/master/mogan/
> scheduler/filter_scheduler.py#L17
> >
> > 2. For the changes we follows what nova changed, should reference to the
> > original authors in the commit messages.
> >
> >
> > Please let me know if there are something else we need to do or there are
> > already some existing principles we can follow, thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mogan
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Zhenguo Niu
> >
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Zhenguo Niu
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