[OpenStack-Infra] [openstack-dev] [neutron] [vpnaas] vpnaas no longer part of the neutron governance

Takashi Yamamoto yamamoto at midokura.com
Thu Dec 1 10:08:02 UTC 2016


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 27 November 2016 at 20:50, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > As of today, the project neutron-vpnaas is no longer part of the neutron
>> > governance. This was a decision reached after the project saw a dramatic
>> > drop in active development over a prolonged period of time.
>> >
>> > What does this mean in practice?
>> >
>> > From a visibility point of view, release notes and documentation will no
>> > longer appear on openstack.org as of Ocata going forward.
>> > No more releases will be published by the neutron release team.
>> > The neutron team will stop proposing fixes for the upstream CI, if not
>> > solely on a voluntary basis (e.g. I still felt like proposing [2]).
>> >
>> > How does it affect you, the user or the deployer?
>> >
>> > You can continue to use vpnaas and its CLI via the python-neutronclient
>> > and
>> > expect it to work with neutron up until the newton
>> > release/python-neutronclient 6.0.0. After this point, if you want a
>> > release
>> > that works for Ocata or newer, you need to proactively request a release
>> > [5], and reach out to a member of the neutron release team [3] for
>> > approval.
>> > Assuming that the vpnaas CI is green, you can expect to have a working
>> > vpnaas system upon release of its package in the foreseeable future.
>> > Outstanding bugs and new bug reports will be rejected on the basis of
>> > lack
>> > of engineering resources interested in helping out in the typical
>> > OpenStack
>> > review workflow.
>> > Since we are freezing the development of the neutron CLI in favor of the
>> > openstack unified client (OSC), the lack of a plan to make the VPN
>> > commands
>> > available in the OSC CLI means that at some point in the future the
>> > neutron
>> > client CLI support for vpnaas may be dropped (though I don't expect this
>> > to
>> > happen any time soon).
>> >
>> > Can this be reversed?
>> >
>> > If you are interested in reversing this decision, now it is time to step
>> > up.
>> > That said, we won't be reversing the decision for Ocata. There is quite
>> > a
>> > curve to ramp up to make neutron-vpnaas worthy of being classified as a
>> > neutron stadium project, and that means addressing all the gaps
>> > identified
>> > in [6]. If you are interested, please reach out, and I will work with
>> > you to
>> > add your account to [4], so that you can drive the neutron-vpnaas agenda
>> > going forward.
>> >
>> > Please do not hesitate to reach out to ask questions and/or
>> > clarifications.
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm interested in working on the project.
>> well, at least on the parts which is used by networking-midonet.
>
>
> That's great to hear Yamamoto. Since you are already a neutron-core I assume
> you are already intimate with the work required to strengthen the VPNaaS
> project. I have added you to [4] and you can lean on me for any changes that
> needs reviewing.

thank you.

>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Armando
>> >
>> > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/392010/
>> > [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397924/
>> > [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/150,members
>> > [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/502,members
>> > [5] https://github.com/openstack/releases
>> > [6]
>> >
>> > http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/stadium/ocata/neutron-vpnaas.html
>> >
>> >
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