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On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:26:36 -0600, Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On 2/7/2019 5:06 PM, melanie witt wrote:
>> The ability to specify volume type during server create is complete
>> since 2018-10-16. However, the patches for being able to detach a boot
>> volume and volume-backed server rebuild are in merge conflict/stale.
>> Help is needed here.
> 
> It's Chinese New Year / Spring Festival this week so the developers that
> own these changes are on holiday. Kevin told me last week that once he's
> back he's going to complete the detach/attach root volume work. The spec
> was amended [1] and needs another spec core to approve (probably would
> be good to have Dan do that since was involved in the initial spec review).
> 
> As for the volume-backed rebuild change, I asked Jie Li on the review if
> he needed someone to help push it forward and he said he did. It sounds
> like Kevin and/or Yikun might be able to help there. Yikun already has
> the Cinder side API changes all done and there is a patch for the
> python-cinderclient change, but the Cinder API change is blocked until
> we have an end-to-end working scenario in Tempest for the volume-backed
> rebuild flow in nova. I can help with the Tempest change when the time
> comes since that should be pretty straightforward.
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/619161/

That's all great news! Thanks for the summary and for volunteering to 
help with the Tempest change.

We'll keep our eyes peeled for updates to those patch series coming soon.

Cheers,
-melanie