Hi Dan, I've just now posted the plans Jason and I have for openstack-common here:
http://wiki.openstack.org/CommonLibrary Thanks for poking us into doing it! :) Any help you can give would be awesome. Even a wiki page listing the APIs Quantum has that you think should be in openstack-common would be great. Cheers, Mark. On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 01:25 -0800, Dan Wendlandt wrote: > The last netstack email about splitting Quantum repos touched a bit on > openstack-common, but I thought it was worth creating a separate > specifically on Quantum + openstack-common. I've tried to CC some of the > people that seem to be driving discussion of openstack-common > > When reviewing the Quantum codebase, there seems to be a good amount of > "infrastructure" code for both client + server that is not quantum specific > and was likely borrowed from existing projects like nova + glance. I'd > really like to get that code into something like openstack-common for > several reasons: > 1) keep quantum bloat down > 2) make sure bug fixes/enhancements made in one project benefit all projects > 3) make sure teams don't have to duplicate work writing unit tests in each > project. > > Can someone working on openstack-common comment on the current state of the > work? Particularly, do we expect it to be a standard > github.com/openstack/repo soon, and do we expect it to be packaged for > major distros soon? It > wouldn't seem like Quantum would want to start using it until that was the > case. > > Assuming we can start depending on openstack-common, I would advocate for a > review of the quantum codease identifying chunks that either are already in > openstack-common, or we think are good candidates for addition to > openstack-common. > > Dan > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
