[Openstack] [Nova] Proposed removal of the PowerVM driver

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Nov 25 16:26:38 UTC 2013



On Monday, November 25, 2013 10:14:00 AM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org
> <mailto:thierry at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
>     Chuck Short wrote:
>     > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Michael Still
>     <mikal at stillhq.com <mailto:mikal at stillhq.com>
>     > <mailto:mikal at stillhq.com <mailto:mikal at stillhq.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >>     So, a few questions...
>     >>
>     >>      - If there are no users shall we remove it from Havana and
>     Grizzly as
>     >>     well, or does that violate our stability principles too much?
>     >
>     >
>     > Speaking with my stable maintainers hat on I would personally
>     NACK this
>     > since
>     > it doesnt meet the standard of a stable maintenance requirement,
>     imho.
>
>     It definitely doesn't meet our stable maintenance rules. We want
>     people
>     to be able to safely upgrade to the latest stable/* when they are
>     users
>     of the release. We don't add new features, removing them would be even
>     worse.
>
>     >>      - If we don't remove the code from stable, what about
>     removing all
>     >>     references from the stable docs and putting in a warning
>     saying that
>     >>     powervm is a dead end instead? I want to minimise confusion
>     on the
>     >>     part of people deploying stable releases.
>     >
>     > This would be okay in my opinion.
>
>     At the very minimum I would add the "dead-end" comment to the Havana
>     release notes. If Anne is fine by it, it could also be added to the
>     stable/havana version of the docs.
>
>
> PowerVM was mostly documented in developer docs in the nova repo. It
> also has entries in the Configuration Reference in the nova.conf
> options tables from our autodoc process. Those will just stay in the
> stable/havana repo, but I'm okay with backporting a note to
> stable/havana with a clear message as to the driver's fate. We also
> have a mention of PowerVM in stable/grizzly where we could also place
> a note. Release notes are a good place for this as well, thanks Russell.
>
> Tracking with
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1254780 -- feel free
> to add the nova project as well to ensure the docs in the nova repo
> are removed.
>
> I do want to point out that we don't have adequate documentation of
> other drivers, like Hyper-V and Xen, just want to make sure you all
> know there are gaps and documentation isn't the indicator of
> "acceptance" of a hypervisor driver.
> Thanks -
> Anne
>
>     --
>     Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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Also to relay what was discussed in nova IRC this morning, this topic 
is on the release meeting agenda for tomorrow:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ProjectMeeting#Agenda_for_next_meeting

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann





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