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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Brian Waldon
<brian.waldon at mailtrust.com> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Gabe Westmaas
>> <gabe.westmaas at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>> minDisk and minRam filtering of flavors output (defined in 4.4.1)
>>> minDisk and minRam exposed as attributes of images (defined in 4.5.1,
>>> requires work in glance)
>>> image statuses should match spec (defined in 4.5.1, requires work in
>>> glance)
>>
>> I'm assuming by "needs work in glance" above, you mean that the Glance
>> Image Service driver in Nova needs work, right? Or are we saying we're
>> going to change the Glance API right before the Diablo release to
>> support a Cloud Servers-specific (Flavor-specific) attribute list? My
>> impression is that the above items would merely be updating the
>> translation mappings in the Nova GlanceImageService class. Please let
>> me know if that's not the case, as we'll need to create bugs in Glance
>> to target to Diablo.
>>
>> Thanks Gabe!
>> -jay
>
> As for the minDisk and minRam attributes, we feel they would be best implemented as top-level attributes in Glance. There is definitely work needed in Nova once they are made available. There are solutions that don't require changes in Glance (using image properties) that may be better discussed off the ML.
>
> The OSAPI v1.1 spec also has a few examples of image entity statuses that appear to differ from those made available in Glance. Perhaps this is just a presentation-level detail that need be addressed only in Nova.
>
> I'm not really worried about getting all this done by Diablo (although others may feel differently). We're working on a time-based release, so it's not out of the question to push features out to Essex.

OK, thanks for the quick update, Brian. We can discuss making some
more top-level attributes in another thread. Thanks!
-jay