-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 04/30/2015 08:06 PM, John Dickinson wrote: > >> On Apr 30, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 04/30/2015 12:40 PM, John Dickinson wrote: >>> Swift is a scalable and durable storage engine for storing >>> unstructured data. It's been proven time and time again in >>> production in clusters all over the world. >>> >>> We in the Swift developer community are constantly looking for >>> ways to improve the codebase and deliver a better quality >>> codebase to users everywhere. During the past year, the >>> Rackspace Cloud Files team has been exploring the idea of >>> reimplementing parts of Swift in Go. Yesterday, they released >>> some of this code, called "hummingbird", for the first time. >>> It's been proposed to a "feature/hummingbird" branch in Swift's >>> source repo. >>> >>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/178851 >>> >>> I am very excited about this work being in the greater >>> OpenStack Swift developer community. If you look at the patch >>> above, you'll see that there are various parts of Swift >>> reimplemented in Go. During the next six months (i.e. before >>> Tokyo), I would like us to answer this question: >>> >>> What advantages does a compiled-language object server bring, >>> and do they outweigh the costs of using a different language? >>> >>> Of course, there are a ton of things we need to explore on this >>> topic, but I'm happy that we'll be doing it in the context of >>> the open community instead of behind closed doors. We will >>> have a fishbowl session in Vancouver on this topic. I'm >>> looking forward to the discussion.
I'm excited to see where this discussion goes. If we decide that a portion of swift being in Go (or C++ or Rust or nim) is a good idea, (just as we've decided that devstack being in shell and portions of horizon and tuskar being in Javascript is a good idea) I'd like to caution people from thinking that must necessarily mean that our general policy of "python" is dead. The stance has always been "python unless there is a compelling reason otherwise". It sounds like there may be a compelling reason otherwise here. Also: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology >> Awesome discussion topic. I've long argued that OpenStack should >> be the API, not the implementation, I have and continue to disagree... >> to allow for experimentation in other languages such as Golang. As John points out more politely below, OpenStack can experiment with language without turning ourselves into a feckless standards body. > Just a small clarification on the words here: this isn't a > "re-implementation of Swift". This is part of Swift. It is code > that is proposed to and managed by the governance structures set up > by OpenStack and the OpenStack Swift community, therefore it is > "Swift". > > The important part is that this is done in the open. That's why > I'm happy it's been proposed upstream. ++ >> >> Kudos to the Rackspace Cloud Files team for this effort. I'll >> definitely dig into the code. This I agree with. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVQoS8AAoJEDOQ22gEGhLwU6sP/0EBqCJTpzLl6Vt9HIY8BQbK Y6jB5lHYsDUOfpZdDBdZ/WZ9QomuW7F8n8neJRCp2Q+1Bee09Vk8YQMSHPBpJHEN 565nCM0gWEznRcXhKgXeNA9q04Q5mj3kJWEC5eaMiLXMy1QLtTpo3OxBaxgbj+UN G/i0a6bIuhW5BIogbxnWDj7AoF+RA/3InhDy3VLmdNLgZ9z3NQKF2os2cJLvOYTB AdwblMREGtHqvE+ANkp5HNezCDT03weIfwPZXan+7up1CN80yt03WavoSqPuOyoj 5rlOgz3AaEM6yQpnCG+kqOAm1EL5i0yzOdZYPAPoFXPbWvSdHEO/YFN9JcSh76AD V5WAiyu4MW/q18nsWly8Rcrf+fdKAcOvLaflQCDcIrblwBM1vYuyoXPSvOpXKlTg S3kVdwnhD85pO9WZxW2PJf1nGekcjwUwvmKJevoJRsXWxMJMUkXU/erXpaIkFg2c w76YUSgqjFr1lQDdLe493/rT13WEnMk1ZTqIs6BZJMxyRVRFzpggxBBLP+ZDUW7D TDbUSZNwYtPacRX0QDKXfL3Kvywdt7hlc6iixCFt2qg6xQ//2r9uuF0xArM0iwv0 MfSLYoUkHsV4lf5OVG8800fC0dgWS5TYzCrL6uXcw3wT7rHHQ8xxAdQBBtnogj6P F5m5K6nFX6KfbxCk5Y6B =ljsb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
