Doug, I can help with shepherding this effort as well.
-- dims On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellm...@dreamhost.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Vipin Balachandran > <vbalachand...@vmware.com> wrote: >> >> This library is highly specific to VMware drivers in OpenStack and not a >> generic VMware API client. As Doug mentioned, this library won't be useful >> outside OpenStack. Also, it has some dependencies on openstack.common code >> as well. Therefore it makes sense if we make this code as part of OSLO. > > > I think we have consensus that, assuming you are committing to API > stability, this set of code does not need to go through the incubator before > becoming a library. How stable is the current API? > > If it stable and is not going to be useful to anyone outside of OpenStack, > we can create an oslo.vmware library for it. I can start working with -infra > next week to set up the repository. > > We will need someone on your team to be designated as the lead maintainer, > to coordinate with the Oslo PTL for release management issues and bug > triage. Is that you, Vipin? > > We will also need to have a set of reviewers for the new repository. I'll > add oslo-core, but it will be necessary for a few people familiar with the > code to also be included. If you have anyone from nova or cinder who should > be a reviewer, we can add them, too. Please send me a list of names and the > email addresses used in gerrit so I can add them to the reviewer list when > the repository is created. > > Doug > > >> >> >> >> By the way, a work in progress review has been posted for the VMware >> cinder driver integration with the OSLO common code >> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70108/). The nova integration is currently >> under progress. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Vipin >> >> >> >> From: Doug Hellmann [mailto:doug.hellm...@dreamhost.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:06 AM >> To: Donald Stufft >> Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Vipin >> Balachandran >> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] VMware tools in oslo-incubator or >> straight to oslo.vmware >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Julien Danjou <jul...@danjou.info> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 28 2014, Doug Hellmann wrote: >> > >> >> There are several reviews related to adding VMware interface code to >> >> the >> >> oslo-incubator so it can be shared among projects (start at >> >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65075/7 if you want to look at the >> >> code). >> >> >> >> I expect this code to be fairly stand-alone, so I wonder if we would be >> >> better off creating an oslo.vmware library from the beginning, instead >> >> of >> >> bringing it through the incubator. >> >> >> >> Thoughts? >> > >> > This sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't look OpenStack specific, so >> > maybe building a non-oslo library would be better. >> > >> > Let's not zope it! :) >> >> +1 on not making it an oslo library. >> >> >> >> Given the number of issues we've seen with stackforge libs in the gate, >> I've changed my default stance on this point. >> >> >> >> It's not clear from the code whether Vipin et al expect this library to be >> useful for anyone not working with both OpenStack and VMware. Either way, I >> anticipate having the library under the symmetric gating rules and managed >> by the one of the OpenStack teams (oslo, nova, cinder?) and VMware >> contributors should make life easier in the long run. >> >> >> >> As far as the actual name goes, I'm not set on "oslo.vmware" it was just a >> convenient name for the conversation. >> >> >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Julien Danjou >> > # Free Software hacker # independent consultant >> > # http://julien.danjou.info >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OpenStack-dev mailing list >> > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> ----------------- >> Donald Stufft >> PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 >> DCFA >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
