> If the idea is to gate with nova-extra-drivers this could lead to a > rather painful process to change the virt driver API. When all the > drivers are in the same tree all of them can be updated at the same > time as the infrastructure.
Right, and I think if we split those drivers out, then we do *not* gate on them for the main tree. It's asymmetric, which means potentially more trouble for the maintainers of the extra drivers. However, as has been said, we *want* the drivers in the tree as we have them now. Being moved out would be something the owners of a driver would choose in order to achieve a faster pace of development, with the consequence of having to place catch-up if and when we change the driver API. Like I said, I'll be glad to submit patches to the extra tree in unison with patches to the main tree to make some of the virt API changes that will be coming soon, which should minimize the troubles. I believe Alex has already said that he'd prefer the occasional catch-up activities over what he's currently experiencing. --Dan _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
