On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Devananda van der Veen <devananda....@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip] > Additionally, the TC has laid out some (draft) graduation requirements [2] > for projects that duplicate functionality in a pre-existing project -- that > means us, since we're supplanting the old Nova "baremetal" driver. For > reference, here's the pertinent snippet from the draft: > >> "[T]he new project must reach a level of functionality and maturity such >> that we are ready to deprecate the old code ... including details for how >> users will be able to migrate from the old to the new." > > We have two blueprints up that pertain specifically to this requirement: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/deprecate-baremetal-driver > > The nova.virt.ironic driver is especially important as it represents Nova's > ability to perform the same functionality that is available today with the > baremetal driver. The Project meeting yesterday [4] made it clear that > getting the nova.virt.ironic driver landed is a pre-condition of Ironic's > graduation. This driver is well underway, but still has much work to be > done. We've started to see a few reviews from the Nova team, and have begun > splitting up the patch into smaller, more reviewable chunks. > > The blueprint is set "Low" priority. I know the Nova core team is swamped > with review work, but we'll need to start getting regular feedback on this. > Russel suggested that this is suitable for a FFE so we could continue > working on it after I3, which is great - we'll need the extra time. Even so, > getting a little early feedback from nova-core would be very helpful in case > there is major work that they think we need to do. I would also like to see CI (either third party or in the gate) for the nova driver before merging it. There's a chicken and egg problem here if its in the gate, but I'd like to see it at least proposed as a review. Michael -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
