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On Aug 20, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Neutron wasn't split out of nova.

Yes, that’s correct, and the continued existence of nova-network testifies to that. But what is also correct is that the networking effort was separated from Nova. Since the existing nova-network code wasn’t designed to handle the sort of networking that was envisioned to be needed, a separate Quantum project was started, by many of the people who contributed to nova-network in the past. 

That detail aside, the question is still valid: did the split from working within the Nova project to working as an independent project have positive or negative effects? Or both?

-- Ed Leafe