On 05/12/13 01:14, Brent Eagles wrote: > Hi, > > As part of the Icehouse nova-networking parity effort, we need to > describe how nova-networking managers work and how the behavior is > mapped to neutron. The benefits are: > > 1. It aides migration: deployers who are nova-network savvy can see how > functionality maps from one to the other. > > 2. It aides implementation: if we cannot provide a mapping, there is a > breakage in parity and it needs to be addressed somehow. > > 3. It aides testing (and debugging): by illuminating points where the > implementations differ, it makes it easier to design and implement tests > that can be expected to function the same for each networking > implementation. > > 4. It aides acceptance: at some point, the proverbial *we* are going to > decide whether neutron is ready to replace nova. The existence of > working recipes is a pretty strong set of acceptance criteria. Another > way to look at it is that the recipes are essentially a high level > description of how to go about manually testing parity. > > 5. It aides support and documentation efforts: nearly any point in the > openstack user "spectrum" (casual experimenter to hard-core > developer/implementer) who has anything to do with legacy deployments or > parity itself will benefit from having these recipes on hand. NOT to > mention the "rtfm" option when somebody asks "I'm using FlatManager in > nova-network and want to do the same in neutron, how does that work?" (I > love being able to write "rtfm", don't you?) > > Sounds great!?! Cool! Do you want to help or know someone who does (or > should - third-person volunteering not discouraged!)? We need > nova-networking savvy and neutron savvy folks alike, though you need not > necessarily be both at the same time. > > As some of the aforementioned benefits are directly relevant to the > Icehouse development cycle AND the holiday season is upon us, it is > important to get the ball rolling ASAP. To be specific, working recipes > are most valuable if they are available for Icehouse-2 (see reasons 2, 3 > and most importantly 4). > > Please respond if interested, want to volunteer someone or have comments > and suggestions.
I think that's a great idea. What kind of format would you like to see the recepies in? Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
