On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Luke Gorrie <l...@tail-f.com> wrote:

> On 21 August 2014 12:12, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Let the ones that are primarily interested in
>>  good quality of that code (vendors) to drive development. And if some
>> plugins become garbage, it's bad news for specific vendors; if neutron
>> screws because of lack of concentration on core features and open
>> source plugins, everyone is doomed.
>>
>
> Completely agree with this sentiment. Is there a crisp distinction between
> a "vendor" plugin and an "open source" plugin though?
>

This topic is interesting: should all opensource backend drivers be put
into the tree?

But as Kyle has mentioned earlier, Incubator is not the place to discuss
in-tree / out-tree for 3rd vs. built-in drivers, but the place to bake
newly introduced API and resource model for fast iteration, so I'll forward
this topic in another thread.


>
> The Snabb NFV (http://snabb.co/nfv.html) driver superficially looks like
> a vendor plugin but is actually completely open source. The development is
> driven by end-user organisations who want to make the standard upstream
> Neutron support their NFV use cases.
>
> We are looking for a good way to engage with the upstream community. In
> this cycle we have found kindred spirits in the NFV subteam., but we did
> not find a good way to engage with Neutron upstream (see
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/116476/). It would be wonderful if there
> is a suitable process available for us to use in Kilo e.g. incubation.
>
> Cheers,
> -Luke
>
>
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