Russell Bryant wrote: > The maintainers of the PowerVM driver have proposed that it be removed > from Nova. Their reasons are: > > - it is no longer in line with IBM's strategic direction with OpenStack > > - they are not aware of anyone ever having used the driver (outside of > the team that developed and maintained it) > > The second point is quite important. If anyone is using it that they do > not know of, we need to find out. Normally we would approach something > like this with a phased deprecation plan (mark it deprecated in > Icehouse, remove it in J). There is a non-zero cost to keeping the > code, so if we can remove it immediately, there is some benefit to Nova > development. > > If you have an interest in this driver, please speak now.
According to the user survey there was *1* deployment that reported using PowerVM: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/openstack-user-survey-statistics-november-2013/ Maybe the user committee could help us make sure that user knows about this plan ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
