Re: [Openstack] Distributed quota manager concept

2012-07-18 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 16:08 -0600, Everett Toews wrote: > Were you envisioning Boson going through the incubation process and > becoming a core project in OpenStack? Yes, I could envision that. > If that were to happen, would Boson become a required dependency for > all of the other OpenStack pr

Re: [Openstack] Distributed quota manager concept

2012-07-18 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/17/2012 06:08 PM, Everett Toews wrote: > Setting aside any SQL/NoSQL religious debate or even the "best tool for > the job" argument, I think you'd find this to be a hard sell to the > operations crowd. Nobody is going to want to have all of their OpenStack > data in an SQL DB (which they may

Re: [Openstack] Distributed quota manager concept

2012-07-17 Thread Everett Toews
Hi Kevin, Overall I really like what you're proposing here. Conceptually this seems like a comprehensive and scalable solution to the quota issue in OpenStack. I have a number of questions on it. Were you envisioning Boson going through the incubation process and becoming a core project in OpenS

[Openstack] Distributed quota manager concept

2012-07-17 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
I recently thought about and wrote up a concept for a distributed quota manager that I have dubbed "Boson." Unfortunately, higher priorities at Rackspace have kept me from working on it, so I wanted to get the proposal out there for others to comment and cogitate on. The writeup is at http://wiki