[Openstack] FIXED IT! Re: Floating ip addresses take forever to display

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 18:28:48 UTC 2012


On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:

> Alan Pevec wrote:
>> 2012/11/22 Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at seas.harvard.edu>:
>>> Any chance we can get it fixed in Essex, too?  Or has this release
>>> been abandoned?  I'm not clear on what the maintenance schedule looks
>>> like as the steamroller of progress moves forward.
>> 
>> Current stable branch policy is documented in
>> http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch
>> 
>> tld;r openstack-stable-maint team actively backports fixes to
>> stable/folsom branch.
>> Separate openstack-diablo-maint and openstack-essex-maint teams exist
>> for older branches, but they accept serious issues e.g. security fixes
>> only.
>> Note that diablo/essex-maint teams are 1-2 members only, so if you
>> have resources I'm sure they'd welcome any help they can get.
> 
> It's more a question of how disruptive the patch is vs. how critical the
> bug is. Given how annoying this bug is, it would be good to at least
> assess the disruption factor of a backport.

Backporting the whole refresh_cache would be very painful, but I think
this could be done with a one line addition to update the cache at the end
of network_api.allocate_for_instance which doesn't seem very disruptive.

Vish





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