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On 8/17/2018 10:59 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> wrote:
>> One of the questions that has come up on the etherpad is about how
>> placement should be positioned, as a project, after the extraction.
>> The options are:
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>> * A repo within the compute project
>> * Its own project, either:
>>   * working towards being official and governed
>>   * official and governed from the start
> I would like to hear from the Cinder and Neutron teams, especially those who were around when those compute sub-projects were split off into their own projects. Did you feel that being independent of compute helped or hindered you? And to those who are in those projects now, is there any sense that things would be better if you were still part of compute?
Ed,

I started working with Cinder right after the split had taken place.  I 
have had several discussions as to how the split took place and why over 
the years since.

In the case of Cinder we split because the pace at which things were 
changing in the Cinder project had exceeded what could be handled by the 
Nova team.  Nova has always been a busy project and the changes coming 
in for Nova Volume were getting lost in the larger Nova picture.  So, 
Nova Volume was broken out to become Cinder so that people could focus 
on the storage aspect of things and get change through more quickly.

So, I think, for the most part that it has been something that has 
benefited the project.  The exception would be all the challenges that 
have come working cross project on changes that impact both Cinder and 
Nova but that has improved over time.  Given the good leadership I 
envision for the Placement Service I think that is less of a concern.

For the placement service, I would expect that there will be a greater 
rate of change once more projects are using it.  This would also support 
splitting the service out.
> My opinion has been that Placement should have been separate from the start. The longer we keep Placement inside of Nova, the more painful it will be to extract, and hence the likelihood of that every happening is greatly diminished.
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I do agree that pulling the service out sooner than later is probably best.
> -- Ed Leafe
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