Hi, During the mid-cycle we had another proposal that wanted to put back the glance_store library back into the Glance repo and not leave it is as a separate repo/project.
The questions outstanding are: what are the use cases that want it as a separate library? The original use cases that supported a separate lib have not had much progress or adoption yet. There have been complaints about overhead of maintaining it as a separate lib and version tracking without much gain. The proposals for the re-factor of the library is also a worrysome topic in terms of the stability of the codebase. The original use cases from my memory are: 1. Other projects consuming glance_store -- this has become less likely to be useful. 2. another upload path for users for the convenience of tasks -- not preferable as we don't want to expose this library to users. 3. ease of addition of newer drivers for the developers -- drivers are only being removed since. 4. cleaner api / more methods that support backend store capabilities - a separate library is not necessarily needed, smoother re-factor is possible within Glance codebase. Also, the authN/Z complexities and ACL restrictions on the back-end stores can be potential security loopholes with the library and Glance evolution separately. In order to move forward smoothly on this topic in Liberty, I hereby request input from all concerned developer parties. The decision to keep this as a separate library will remain in effect if we do not come to resolution within 2 weeks from now. However, if there aren't any significant use cases we may consider a port back of the same. Please find some corresponding discussion from the latest Glance weekly meeting: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/glance/2015/glance.2015-08-06-14.03.log.html#l-21 -- Thanks, Nikhil __________________________________________________________________________ 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
