So, a few questions... - If there are no users shall we remove it from Havana and Grizzly as well, or does that violate our stability principles too much?
- If we don't remove the code from stable, what about removing all references from the stable docs and putting in a warning saying that powervm is a dead end instead? I want to minimise confusion on the part of people deploying stable releases. - And finally, as someone who spent a bunch of time reviewing powervm code I will admit that I'm kind of annoyed right now. How can IBM reassure us that powervc has customers asking for a driver, and that those customers will actually deploy a driver if one is merged? Given kvm for power is now announced and should be around in 2014, I'd much prefer a powerkvm through libvirt implementation to minimise the number of drivers. Michael [1]: http://blog.klauskiwi.com/ibm-announces-kvm-coming-to-power-systems-in-2014-powerlinux-powerkvm-rhsummit/ On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > > There was only one response in the user survey that the cloud was using > PowerVM. > > Given IBM's request to drop the function, my analysis of the survey data says > that this would not cause disruption for the deployments who reported their > configurations. > > Thus, an accelerated depreciation schedule would seem appropriate. I would > recommend an e-mail to the openstack operations list to confirm that there > are no objections. > > Tim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thie...@openstack.org] >> Sent: 22 November 2013 17:25 >> To: openstack@lists.openstack.org >> Cc: Tim Bell; Ryan Lane >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Proposed removal of the PowerVM driver >> >> 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 -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ 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
