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On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 12:56 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > My opinion - the GCE work looks awesome, it's an exciting new feature
> > and it's the kind of awesome new feature by awesome developers that we
> > should be facilitating.
> > 
> > We have a long term goal of facilitating work like this happening
> > outside of Nova, but no real sign of that goal coming about in the
> > medium term.
> > 
> > We shouldn't let our idealistic long term plans get in the way of
> > pragmatic, exciting progress happening now.
> 
> Yeah, I mostly agree with what you're saying above and in the rest of
> the post. That said, however, the rub is that while the GCE work looks
> awesome, this whole topic came up, IIRC, because of the OCCI-compatible
> work that had been proposed. I personally didn't care for the OCCI work
> and didn't want it in Nova core.

What was the issue with the OCCI work? I don't recall ever seeing a
patch

> While I personally wouldn't mind seeing the GCE work in core, because I
> think the work is better, it sets a precedent vs. the current
> "exception" of the EC2 API being in core.
> 
> Once there is precedent, we either need to let everything in, or we need
> to be picky about the winners and losers. The intent 6 months ago was to
> NOT pick winners and losers intentionally, and make a statement that we
> intended to only have the native REST API in core long-term.
> 
> If that decision is to be reversed, are nova-core folks willing to pick
> the winners and losers or if not, are they willing to let all comers
> into the code base?

We pick winners and losers all the time - what features make sense, what
patches suck, etc.

Cheers,
Mark.