On 18 July 2014 14:28, Andrew Laski <andrew.la...@rackspace.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to request a spec proposal extension for instance tasks, > described in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86938/ . This has been a long > discussed and awaited feature with a lot of support from the community. > > This feature has been intertwined with the fate of the V3 API, which is > still being worked out, and may not be completed in Juno. This means that I > lack confidence that the tasks API work can be fully completed in Juno as > well. But there is more to the tasks work than just the API, and I would > like to get some of that groundwork done. In fact, one of the challenges > with the task work is how to handle an upgrade situation with an API that > exposes tasks and computes which are not task aware and therefore don't > update them properly. If it's acceptable I would propose stripping the API > portion of the spec for now and focus on getting Juno computes to be task > aware so that tasks exposed in the Kilo API would be handled properly with > Juno computes. This of course assumes that we're reasonably confident we > want to add tasks to the API in Kilo.
I see better task handling as a key to better organising the error handling inside Nova, and improving stability. As such I am happy to sponsor this spec. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
