On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> 
wrote:

> “..nobody in the community (aside from you, Likitha and Prachi) have actually 
> touched that code in the last two years. So if we don't maintain that code.."
> That’s false equivalence. Clearly it has been maintained since there are bug 
> fixes.
> 

I don't know…I look at:

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/awsapi

I see Hugo has fixed some coverity issues

I applied a review 8 months ago

the rest is older. but maybe I am not looking at this the right way.

there is one review still pending:

https://reviews.apache.org/r/21776/

So from looking at it this way it does not look actively maintained. No ?

> But we’re looking to make things better. I am not sure HOW bringing in 
> another compatibility layer brings benefits, UNLESS WE propose to commit time 
> to provide a suite of integration tests (say, via eutester)

Do we have a suite of integration tests for awsapi that is running right now ? 
where ?

I did play with eutester and actually patched it to work with cloudstack when I 
worked on ec2stack:

http://sebgoa.blogspot.de/2014/06/eutester-interesting-tool-based-on-boto.html

-sebastien

> 
> Thanks
> —
> Chiradeep
> 
> From: sebgoa <run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
> <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 11:39 AM
> To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
> <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
> Subject: Re: Moving ec2stack and gstack to the cloudstack repos.
> 
> 
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Chiradeep Vittal 
> <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com<mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>> wrote:
> 
> Seems legit, but from (bitter) experience, there is no point in a compatible 
> API layer unless somebody puts in the elbow grease to test the compatibility. 
> Since the actual EC2 API as implemented by AWS changes frequently and has 
> undocumented semantics and  behavior that varies from the WSDL, this takes 
> some work. So, my question would be how would this benefit the community 
> (unless someone has tested out the compatibility with various tools such as 
> boto, ec2-* CLI).
> 
> I think the main issue is the on-going maintenance of such an interface. 
> That's also one of the main reason why I advocate to remove awsapi, nobody in 
> the community (aside from you, Likitha and Prachi) have actually touched that 
> code in the last two years. So if we don't maintain that code and indeed run 
> CI against this interface, advertising that we have it gives a false "hope" 
> to users.
> 
> On the other side of the coin, I think most cloud tools out there now have 
> native cloudstack API support (vagrant, cfg mgmt , libcloud etc…), so the 
> need for a pure ec2 interface has diminished greatly.
> 
> -sebastien
> 
> From: Sebastien Goasguen 
> <run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com><mailto:run...@gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: 
> "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>"
>  
> <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM
> To: 
> "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>"
>  
> <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
> Subject: Moving ec2stack and gstack to the cloudstack repos.
> Folks,
> Some of you may know of the existence of:
> https://github.com/BroganD1993/ec2stack
> https://github.com/NOPping/gstack
> These represent a EC2 and a GCE interface to cloudstack.
> Flask applications that map the requests to the cloudstack API.
> There was only 3 contributors, myself, Ian (PMC and committer on CS) and 
> Darren Brogan.
> Darren worked on this during his GSoC 2014 summer project.
> Both projects are on Apache V2 license.
> The three of us (Ian, Darren and myself) agree that we would like to move 
> them under the umbrella of cloudstack and manage separate releases like we do 
> cloud monkey.
> Any objections ?
> -Sebastien
> 
> 

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