Open Stack

On 03/12/2012 11:56 AM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Jay Pipes<jaypipes at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote:
>>> I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking
>>> to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different
>>> methods to send out notifications. It looked relatively straight forward
>>> to make them use one common library for notifications. That way, when we
>>> make changes or add new transports we do not have to do it twice (or
>>> more number of times depending on how other components of openstack do
>>> notifications). Let me know if someone is already working on this. If
>>> not, let me know if this makes sense and I can start by creating a
>>> blueprint. Also, is there any preference to use object oriented (or not)?
>>
>> It is a surprise that the code is different for event notifications
>> between Nova and Glance. I believe the same developer (Johannes
>> Erdfelt) did them both. And I think his plan was to put the code
>> into the openstack-common library.
>>
>> Johannes, thoughts?
>
> I only did the work for Glance and it was based on the Nova code at the
> time. I guess the code has diverged in the 7 months since I did that
> work.

Ah, my mistake, thanks for the heads up.

> I'm fine with getting it into common code, but I have no plans to do it
> myself.

OK.

Yes, I too would be perfectly happy to see the code moved to 
openstack-common.

Anybody interested in taking on that task?

-jay