Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack-tc] Motion - Amend TC charter language to reflect Gender Parity

2013-11-12 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > I think it goes without saying that it makes sense to fix this. > Personally, I'm annoyed I didn't notice this before now. Agreed. Thanks for fixing this Anita. Michael -- Rackspace Australia __

Re: [openstack-dev] [ALL] Removing generate_uuid() from uuidutils

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Eric Windisch wrote: > I don't think it is a problem to remove the code in oslo first, as > long as no other oslo-incubator code uses it. Projects don't have to > sync the code and could always revert should that they do. I strongly disagree. It stops projects fr

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] question about DB migration difficulty

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Mike Spreitzer wrote: > This is a follow-up to the design summit discussion about DB migrations. > There was concern about the undo-ability of some migrations. The specific > example cited was removal of a column. Could that be done with the > following three mig

Re: [openstack-dev] libvirt_type Doc Bug

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Lana Brindley > wrote: >> It looks as though it was decided that no code changes were required, but a >> doc update was. However, I'm struggling to work out what the user impact is >> here. On the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Proposal to add Christopher Yeoh to nova-core

2013-07-02 Thread Michael Still
+1 On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: > > +1 > > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:40:31 -0400 > Russell Bryant wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I would like to propose Christopher Yoeh to be added to the nova-core team. >> >> Christopher has been prolific in his contributions to nova la

Re: [openstack-dev] Work around DB in OpenStack (Oslo, Nova, Cinder, Glance)

2013-07-02 Thread Michael Still
I've been working on testing database migrations against real data sets for the last few weeks. I haven't had a chance to document it very well yet though -- there's a blog post being drafted at the moment. If you go to http://openstack.stillhq.com/ci you can see the results of tests run against t

Re: [openstack-dev] Work around DB in OpenStack (Oslo, Nova, Cinder, Glance)

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote: > Question: > Why we should put in oslo slqlalchemy-migrate monkey patches, when we are > planing to switch to alembic? > > Answer: >If we don’t put in oslo sqlalchemy-migrate monkey patches. We won't be > able to work on 7 point at all

Re: [openstack-dev] Program description for Oslo

2013-07-09 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hey > > The mission statement is what we've been using for a while. The > "official title" is new. > > Official Title: OpenStack Common Libraries > PTL: Mark McLoughlin > Mission Statement: > To produce a set of python libraries c

Re: [openstack-dev] Event Service

2013-07-12 Thread Michael Still
OpenStack has a system called notifications which does what you're looking for. I've never used it, but I am sure its documented. Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Qing He wrote: > All, > > Does open stack have pub/sub event service? I would like to be notified of > the event of

Re: [openstack-dev] SQLAlchemy-migrate needs a new maintainer

2013-07-13 Thread Michael Still
I'm happy to help, although I'm pretty busy... Michael On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Boris Pavlovic wrote: > Hi Sean, > > I agree to help with sqlalchemy-migrate until we remove it. > But probably there should be one more person mikal > > Best regards, > Boris Pavlovic > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] sqlite doesn't support migrations

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > In Debian, by policy, any package should be able to be installed using > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install. What I do in my postinst > is calling db_sync, because that isn't something our users should even > care about, since i

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] sqlite doesn't support migrations

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/16/2013 12:07 PM, Michael Still wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >>> In Debian, by policy, any package should be able to be installed using >>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=nonin

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] sqlite doesn't support migrations

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Could you explain a bit more what could be done to fix it in an easy > way, even if it's not efficient? I understand that ALTER doesn't work > well. Though would we have the possibility to just create a new > temporary table with the correc

Re: [openstack-dev] There are no OpenStack talks submitted to XenCon, CFP ends this week

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Atwood, Mark wrote: > Hi! > > While I was at the Community Leadership Summit conference this weekend, I met > the community manager for the Xen hypervisor project. He told me that there > are *no* OpenStack talks submitted to the upcoming XenCon conference. > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-dev][nova] Disable per-user rate limiting by default

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Still
I agree with this, but perhaps we should discuss with openstack-operators@ as well? Michael On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > +1 to turn it off > > -- dims > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Day, Phil wrote: >> +1 to turning it off. Having something that doesn’t rea

Re: [openstack-dev] Discussing Amazon API compatibility [Nova][Swift]

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Russell Bryant wrote: > If an external proxy (like AWSOME) is what you want, one of those > already exists (at least for the EC2 API). > > http://deltacloud.apache.org/ > > It supports EC2 on the frontend and the OpenStack compute API on the > backend. I'm not su

Re: [openstack-dev] Python overhead for rootwrap

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > I would rather support solution 3: create a single, separate executable > that does those 20 things that need to be done (can be a shell script > with some logic in it), and have rootwrap call that *once*. That way you > increase speed by

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Proposal to add Nikola Đipanov to nova-core

2013-08-01 Thread Michael Still
+1 On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Laski wrote: > +1 > > > On 07/31/13 at 03:10pm, Russell Bryant wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I propose that we add Nikola Đipanov to the nova-core team [1]. >> >> Nikola has been actively contributing to nova for a while now, both in >> code and reviews.

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Concern about Havana database migrations

2013-08-12 Thread Michael Still
Hi. I have increasing levels of concern about Havana database migrations and I want to beg for help, especially from nova core reviewers. Specifically, I don't think its possible to land all of the database migrations people need before the 22 August proposal freeze. At the moment I see 10 patche

Re: [openstack-dev] [Infra] We've launched git.openstack.org

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Still
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Several months ago the OpenStack Infrastructure team filed a bug to > "Create a git.openstack.org mirror system"[0] Does git.openstack.org replace git hub for developers cloning repositories? Or is it just a mirr

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Frustrations with review wait times

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Still
[Concerns over review wait times in the nova project] I think that we're also seeing the fact that nova-core's are also developers. nova-core members have the same feature freeze deadline, and that means that to a certain extent we need to stop reviewing in order to get our own code ready by the d

Re: [openstack-dev] New Nova hypervisor: Docker

2013-08-28 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Sam Alba wrote: > Hi all, > > We've been working hard during the last couple of weeks with some > people. Brian Waldon helped a lot designing the Glance integration and > driver testing. Dean Troyer helped a lot on bringing Docker support in > Devstack[1]. On top o

Re: [openstack-dev] Backwards incompatible migration changes - Discussion

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > > +1 I think we should be reconstructing data where we can, but keeping track of > deleted data in a backup table so that we can restore it on a downgrade seems > like overkill. I guess it comes down to use case... Do we honestly expect

[openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE request: unix domain socket consoles for libvirt

2013-09-05 Thread Michael Still
Hi. This code has been in review since July 29, but a combination of my focus on code reviews for others and having a baby has resulted in it not landing. This feature is important to libvirt and closes a critical bug we've had open way too long. The reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/39048

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Details for the Nova Mitaka mid-cycle

2015-10-29 Thread Michael Still
Hi, It has been decided that the Nova Mitaka mid-cycle would be in Bristol, UK between 26 and 28 January. You can register at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/openstack-mitaka-nova-mid-cycle-meetup-tickets-19326224257 Details of hotel discounts etc will be added to this thread when they are kno

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] notification subteam

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Still
I'd be interested in being involved with this, and I know Paul Murray is interested as well. I went to make a doodle, but then realised the only non-terrible timeslot for Australia / UK / US Central is 8pm UTC (7am Australia, 8pm London, 2pm Central US). So what do people think of that time slot?

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Alex Xu to nova-core

2015-11-08 Thread Michael Still
+1 Alex does good work. Michael On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:32 AM, John Garbutt wrote: > Hi, > > I propose we add Alex Xu[1] to nova-core. > > Over the last few cycles he has consistently been doing great work, > including some quality reviews, particularly around the API. > > Please respond with

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Sylvain Bauza to nova-core

2015-11-08 Thread Michael Still
+1... Sylvain is an excellent reviewer. On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:32 AM, John Garbutt wrote: > Hi, > > I propose we add Sylvain Bauza[1] to nova-core. > > Over the last few cycles he has consistently been doing great work, > including some quality reviews, particularly around the Scheduler. > > P

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] live migration sub-team meeting

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Still
So, its been a week. What time are we picking? Michael On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote: > > > Most team members expressed they would like a regular IRC meeting for > > > tracking work and raising blocking issues. Looking at the contributors > > > here [2], most of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nova mid cycle details

2015-11-27 Thread Michael Still
Hey, I filled in the first part of that page, but when it got to hotels I got confused. The web site doesn't seem to mention the night rate for the HP price. Do you know what that is? Thanks, Michael On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote: > The Nova Mitaka mid cycle me

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Xvisor support

2016-05-24 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Muneeb Ahmad wrote: > If not, can I add it's support? any ideas how can I do that? > > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Muneeb Ahmad > wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> Does OpenStack support Xvisor? >> > So, given I'd never heard of xvisor I think we can say that no

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoned old code reviews

2016-05-27 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I've spent some time today abandoning old reviews from the Nova queue. Specifically, anything which hadn't been updated before February this year has been abandoned with a message like this: "This patch has been idle for a long time, so I am abandoning it to keep the review clean sane. If you

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoned old code reviews

2016-05-27 Thread Michael Still
I've always done it manually by eyeballing the review, but the script is tempting. Thanks, Michael On 27 May 2016 8:42 PM, "Sean Dague" wrote: > On 05/27/2016 05:36 AM, Michael Still wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've spent some time today abandoning old revi

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Using image metadata to sanity check supplied authentication data at nova 'create' or 'recreate' time?

2016-06-06 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Clif Houck wrote: > Hello all, > > At Rackspace we're running into an interesting problem: Consider a user > who boots an instance in Nova with an image which only supports SSH > public-key authentication, but the user doesn't provide a public key in > the boot req

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Initial oslo.privsep conversion?

2016-06-08 Thread Michael Still
+Angus On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > While sitting in Angus' cross-project session on oslo.privsep at the > Austin summit I believe I had a conversation with myself in my head that > Nova should stop adding new rootwrap filters and anything new should use > oslo.privsep

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Initial oslo.privsep conversion?

2016-06-09 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:10:47PM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > > Agreed, but it's the worked example part that we don't have yet, > > chicken/egg. So we can drop the hammer on all new things until someone > does > > it, which sucks, or ho

[openstack-dev] [nova] Vendordata improvements

2016-06-20 Thread Michael Still
So, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317739 is basically done I think. I'm after people's thoughts on: - I need to do some more things, as described in the commit message. Are we ok with them being in later patches to get reviews moving on this? - I'm unsure what level of tempest testing makes

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Vendordata improvements

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 06/22/2016 09:03 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 6/21/2016 12:53 AM, Michael Still wrote: > >> So, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/317739 is basically done I think. > >> I'm after people's thoughts on

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Proposal to remove `nova image-*` commands from novaclient

2016-04-05 Thread Michael Still
As a recent newcomer to using our client libraries, my only real objection to this plan is that our client libraries as a mess [1][2]. The interfaces we expect users to use are quite different for basic things like initial auth between the various clients, and by introducing another library we insi

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Proposal to remove `nova image-*` commands from novaclient

2016-04-05 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Still > Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) < > openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Date: April 5, 2016 at 16:11:05 > To: OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Newton midcycle planning

2016-04-11 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > A few people have been asking about planning for the nova midcycle for > newton. Looking at the schedule [1] I'm thinking weeks R-15 or R-11 work > the best. R-14 is close to the US July 4th holiday, R-13 is during the week > of the US July

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] Removing Nova specifics from oslo.log

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Still
On 12 Apr 2016 12:19 AM, "Sean Dague" wrote: > > On 04/11/2016 10:08 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > > On 04/11/2016 08:38 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: > > > >> There's a lot of assumption in oslo.log about Nova, such as talking > >> about "instance" and "context" in a lot of the code by default. There's > >> e

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Newton midcycle planning

2016-04-13 Thread Michael Still
either at San Antonio, Texas or Hillsboro, Oregon during R-15 (June 20-24) or R-11 (July 18-22) as preferred by the Nova community. Regards Malini Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Newton midcycle planning Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:54:17 +1000 From:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Libvirt version requirement

2016-05-01 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:27 PM, ZhiQiang Fan wrote: > Hi Nova cores, > > There is a spec[1] submitted to Telemetry project for Newton release, > mentioned that a new feature requires libvirt >= 1.3.4 , I'm not sure if > this will have bad impact to Nova service, so I open this thread and wait >

[openstack-dev] OpenStack's stackalytics is gummed up?

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Still
The instance of stackalytics run by the openstack-infra team seems to be gummed up. It alleges that the last time there was a nova code review was April 17, which seems... unlikely. Who looks after this thing so I can ping them gently? Thanks, Michael -- Rackspace Australia

Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack's stackalytics is gummed up?

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Michael, > > The stackalytics bots do not have access to gerrit at the moment. We > noticed it last friday and talked to infra folks: > > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-infra/%23openstack-infra.2016-04-29.log.html#t20

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Should be instance_dir in all nova compute node same ?

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Still
I can't think of a reason. In fact its a bit warty because we've changed the way we name the instance directories at least once. Its just how this code was written back in the day. Cleaning this up would be a fair bit of work though. Is it really worth the effort just so people can have different

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][live migration] Request to merge initial storage pool patches

2016-05-05 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Matthew Booth wrote: > I mentioned in the meeting last Tuesday that there are now 2 of us working > on the persistent storage metadata patches: myself and Diana Clarke. I've > also been talking to Paul Carlton today trying to work out how he can get > moving with

Re: [openstack-dev] config options: current state (R-21)

2016-05-09 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Markus Zoeller wrote: > We're close to have all options moved to "nova/conf/". At the bottom > is a list of the remaining options and their open reviews. > > The documentation of the options in "nova/conf/" is done for ~ 150 > options. Which means ~ 450 are missin

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][stable] Proposal to add Tony Breeds to nova-stable-maint

2016-01-14 Thread Michael Still
I think Tony would be a valuable addition to the team. +1 Michael On 14 Jan 2016 7:59 AM, "Matt Riedemann" wrote: > I'm formally proposing that the nova-stable-maint team [1] adds Tony > Breeds to the core team. > > I don't have a way to track review status on stable branches, but there > are r

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][stable] Proposal to add Tony Breeds to nova-stable-maint

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Still
We can give him elocution classes at the mid-cycle. It's like my fair lady, but nerdier. Michael On 16 Jan 2016 4:11 AM, "Dan Smith" wrote: > > I'm formally proposing that the nova-stable-maint team [1] adds Tony > > Breeds to the core team. > > My major complaint with Tony is that he talks funn

Re: [openstack-dev] Long description of oslo.privsep

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Still
I have just approved that review, as it moves the ball in the right direction. Michael On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Haha, needs work :) > > -- Dims > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 01/16/2016 08:35 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Bulk Instance Delete support

2016-01-19 Thread Michael Still
Heya, I am not aware of anyone working on this. That said, its also not clear to me that this is actually a good idea. Why can't you just loop through the instances and delete them one at a time? Michael On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:08 AM, vishal yadav wrote: > Hey guys, > > Would like to know t

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] mid-cycle arrangements

2016-01-25 Thread Michael Still
I know its late to ask, but what is the parking situation at the office? Is driving reasonable as a plan or should be walk from the Holiday Inn? Michael On 25 Jan 2016 4:58 PM, "Murray, Paul (HP Cloud)" wrote: > See updated event detail information for the mid-cycle at: > https://wiki.openstack.

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Proposal: Separate design summits from OpenStack conferences

2016-02-07 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: [snip] > Many contributors submit talks to speak at the conference part of an > OpenStack Summit because their company says it's the only way they will pay > for them to attend the design summit. This is, IMHO, a terrible thing. The > design summ

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Proposal: Separate design summits from OpenStack conferences

2016-02-07 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: [snip] > Fifth - if we do this, the real need for the mid-cycles we currently have > probably goes away since the summit week can be a legit wall-to-wall work > week. > [snip] Another reply to a specific point... I disagree strongly here, a

Re: [openstack-dev] Segmentation Fault in nova-compute service on ARM platform.

2015-07-06 Thread Michael Still
Havana is very very old and no longer supported. Why are you porting that release in particular? Michael On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Pradeep kumar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am porting openstack on arm platform, but while running nova-compute > service on it throws segmentaion fault. > > Below

Re: [openstack-dev] Can't add a table to nova DB

2015-07-07 Thread Michael Still
Is this new table as part of a contribution to upstream nova, or for a private table? If its for a private table, then I'm not really sure that's a great idea -- for example what happens when we consume the migration number you use? If this code isn't private, perhaps it would be easiest to share

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Still
b.com/openstack/oslo.db/blob/master/oslo_db/options.py > > Actually, we just happened to be discussing this at the Nova meetup this > morning. And the general consensus was the opposite. It would be better > to collect all the config options in one file, especially if we are > going to

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-24 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Still wrote: > > In fact, I did an example of what I thought it would look like already: > > > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/205154/ > > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-24 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > One idea I've tossed around a bit is having options defined in data > files that ship with the code, rather than being inside the Python > code itself. Maybe a first pass at that would be to offload the > help to a separate file? If that se

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-08-12 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 08/12/2015 02:23 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > > On 08/12/2015 01:20 PM, Markus Zoeller wrote: > > > >> The three questions I have with every config option: > >> 1) which service(s) access this option? > >> 2) what does it do? / what's the impact?

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] should we allow overcommit for a single VM?

2015-08-24 Thread Michael Still
I agree with the rationale here, and will be reviewing https://review.openstack.org/#/c/215764/ accordingly. Michael On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:22:28PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > > > > I tried bringing this up on the irc channel, b

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [docs] Are cells still 'experimental'?

2015-09-02 Thread Michael Still
I think they should not be marked experimental. For better or for worse, there are multiple sites deployed, and we will support them if something goes wrong. That said, I wouldn't be encouraging new deployments of cells v1 at this point. Michael On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Lana Brindley wr

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][nova][all] Pillow breaking gate?

2015-10-01 Thread Michael Still
I've +2'ed Tony's Nova patch, but it would be nice to get another core to take a look as well. Michael On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > On 2 October 2015 at 12:00, Kevin L. Mitchell > wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 15:53 -0700, Clark Boylan wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 1,

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova-compute][nova][libvirt] Extending Nova-Compute for image prefetching

2015-10-08 Thread Michael Still
I think I'd rephrase your definition of pre-fetched to be honest -- something more like "images on this hypervisor node without a currently running instance". So, your operations would become: - trigger an image prefetching - list unused base images (and perhaps when they were last used) - dele

[openstack-dev] [Nova][libvirt] Understand why we lookup libvirt domains by instance name

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Still
I note that we use instance.name to lookup the libvirt domain a bunch in the driver. I'm wondering why we don't just use instance.uuid all the time -- the code for that already exists. Is there a good reason to not move to always using the uuid? I ask because instance.name is not guaranteed to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] Inviting Robert Collins to Oslo core

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Still
I am +1 on this. Michael On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Julien Danjou wrote: > On Wed, May 20 2015, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > >> I'd like to invite Robert Collins (aka lifeless) as an Oslo core. >> Robert has been a long time contributor to a whole bunch of OpenStack >> projects and a member o

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][libvirt] Understand why we lookup libvirt domains by instance name

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:23:35AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:01:50PM -0700, Michael Still wrote: >> > I note that we use instance.name to lookup the libvirt domain a bunch

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoning old specs for Nova

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
I just did an abandon run for specs that meet this criteria and haven't been touched since March. Once again, this isn't a kiss of death, just an attempt at review backlog hygiene. Cheers, Michael On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:26 AM, John Garbutt wrote: > On Monday, May 4, 2015, Michael

[openstack-dev] [Oslo] Review dashboard for oslo?

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I'm finding that oslo being in 1,400 different git repos is making it hard to build a gerrit review dashboard URL. Does anyone have one of these already built that I can just steal? Thanks, Michael -- Rackspace Australia _

Re: [openstack-dev] [Oslo] Review dashboard for oslo?

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
Oh cool. Thanks! Michael On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > One is linked from https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo#Review_Links > > On 22 May 2015 at 05:13, Michael Still wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm finding that oslo being in 1,400 differen

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Using depends-on for patches which require an approved spec

2015-05-22 Thread Michael Still
Hey, it would be cool if devs posting changes for nova which depend on us approving their spec could use Depends-On to make sure their code doesn't land until the spec does. Just my random thought for the day. Michael -- Rackspace Australia

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoning old specs for Nova

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Still
2015 at 3:10 AM, Michael Still wrote: > I just did an abandon run for specs that meet this criteria and > haven't been touched since March. Once again, this isn't a kiss of > death, just an attempt at review backlog hygiene. > > Cheers, > Michael > > On Tue, May 5,

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] File injection, config drive and cloud-init

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Still
Hi! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Mark Boo wrote: [snip] > Now my questions are: > > - Is this (file injection using image mounting) likely to be deprecated at > some point in the future? Yes, we've been building up to that for a long time and I can't see is not doing it. Its important beca

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Plan to consolidate FS-style libvirt volume drivers under a common base class

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Still
I don't think you need a spec for this (its a refactor). That said, I'd be interested in exploring how you deprecate the old flags. Can you have more than one deprecated name for a single flag? Michael On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > > On 6/16/2015 4:21 PM, Matt Riedem

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] [Nova] [Ironic] [Magnum] Microversion guideline in API-WG

2015-06-21 Thread Michael Still
As an aside, do we think that exposing the exact version of a server process is safe from a security perspective? Michael On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Devananda van der Veen wrote: > Almost all of our discussions so far on this topic have left something out, > which Monty pointed out to me

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
Hi, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149625 made me think about optional requirements for nova. Some hypervisor drivers have requirements that are either only needed for their driver, or are optional to their driver. Examples include the ironic driver depending on the ironic client, and the review

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
uired? Cheers, Michael On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 06/22/2015 06:37 AM, Michael Still wrote: >> Hi, >> >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149625 made me think about optional >> requirements for nova. Some hypervisor drivers have requirement

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] [Nova] [Ironic] [Magnum] Microversion guideline in API-WG

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
(Noting that its kind of late where I am). Sean, I totally agree that we should fix uname. Let's get on that. Michael On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 06/22/2015 05:28 AM, John Garbutt wrote: >> On 22 June 2015 at 00:14, Michael Still wrote: >>> A

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
cycle. Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2015-06-22 21:05:11 +1000 (+1000), Michael Still wrote: >> Sure, except where the thing isn't in pip... I just learned tonight >> that the libosinfo thing in the review at the start of this thread

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] How to properly detect and fence a compromised host (and why I dislike TrustedFilter)

2015-06-23 Thread Michael Still
I agree. I feel like this is another example of functionality which is trivially implemented outside nova, and where it works much better if we don't do it. Couldn't an admin just have a cron job which verifies hosts, and then adds them to a compromised-hosts host aggregate if they're owned? I assu

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Deadline for mid-cycle meetup signup

2015-06-25 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that we're setting a deadline of 7 July for mid-cycle meetup signups. So, if you're intending to sign up but haven't already I'd do it real soon now. You can sign up at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/openstack-nova-liberty-mid-cycle-developer-meetup-ti

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Deadline for mid-cycle meetup signup

2015-07-02 Thread Michael Still
Just a reminder that the deadline is next week! Cheers, Michael On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Michael Still wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to let people know that we're setting a deadline of 7 > July for mid-cycle meetup signups. So, if you're intending to sign up >

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Reminder to move implemented nova specs from mitaka

2016-03-19 Thread Michael Still
I normally do this in one big batch, but haven't had a chance yet. I'll do that later this week. Michael On 17 Mar 2016 7:50 AM, "Matt Riedemann" wrote: > Specs are proposed to the 'approved' subdirectory and when they are > completely implemented in launchpad (the blueprint status is > 'Impleme

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-27 Thread Michael Still
Today's hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwjbog3l3omtk2f4tt5s5v4hn4a Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michael Still wrote: > For reference, that's because we were having lunch. It seems to be > working well again. > > Michael > > On Tue, Jan

[openstack-dev] [nova] Nominating Melanie Witt for python-novaclient-core

2015-01-27 Thread Michael Still
Greetings, I would like to nominate Melanie Witt for the python-novaclient-core team. (What is python-novaclient-core? Its a new group which will contain all of nova-core as well as anyone else we think should have core reviewer powers on just the python-novaclient code). Melanie has been involv

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-28 Thread Michael Still
And today's: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gyadkf7bm7wfpsrshlfenb4hiqa Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Michael Still wrote: > Today's hangout: > > https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwjbog3l3omtk2f4tt5s5v4hn4a > > Michael > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 a

[openstack-dev] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
Hi, as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API implementation is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those details here -- you can read the thread on openstack-dev for detail. However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova for the EC2 API. This is despi

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
forge project. That seems the best way forward at this point. Thanks, Michael On 30 Jan 2015 11:11 am, "matt" wrote: > Is there a blue print or some set of bugs tagged in some way to tackle? > > -matt > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Michael Still wrote: > >&

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Michael Still wrote: > There is an ec2 bug tag in launchpad. I would link to it except I am writing > this offline. I will fix that later today. Ok, now that the 40 seater turbo prop has landed, here we go: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.t

Re: [openstack-dev] [Cinder][nova] Cinder backend for ephemeral disks?

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Still
It looks like this was never re-proposed for Kilo. I am open to it being proposed for L* when that release opens for specs soon, but we need a developer to be advocating for it. Michael On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Adam Lawson wrote: > Question, looks like this spec was abandoned , hard to te

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Still
t¹s good for these >>>> APIs to be able to iterate outside of the standard release cycle. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --Randy >>>> >>>> VP, Technology, EMC Corporation >>>> Formerly Founder & CEO, Cloudscaling

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Still
the beginning of a release cycle. Thanks again to everyone who has volunteered to help out with this. 35% of our users are grateful! Michael > On 2/2/15 2:46 AM, Michael Still wrote: >> >> So, its exciting to me that we seem to developing more forward >> momentum here. I per

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][ec2-api] Tagging functionality in nova's EC2 API

2015-02-03 Thread Michael Still
I agree that the priority at the moment for Nova should be getting our EC2 implementation working well enough that it buys us time to transition people to whatever the future may be. Its unfortunate that we have approved the spec for this work in Kilo, but I think that's an indication that we didn

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Nominating Melanie Witt for python-novaclient-core

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Still
Its been a week, so I have now added Melanie to this group. Welcome aboard! Michael On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Michael Still wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to nominate Melanie Witt for the python-novaclient-core team. > > (What is python-novaclient-core? Its a new g

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] stuck patches at the nova IRC meeting

2015-02-05 Thread Michael Still
Certainly it was my intent when I created that agenda item to cover reviews that wouldn't otherwise reach a decision -- either two cores wedged, or something else that we can't resolve trivially in gerrit. Now, I can see that people don't like reviews sitting for a long time, but that's probably t

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Still
The previous policy is that we do a release "when requested" or when a critical bug fix merges. I don't see any critical fixes awaiting release, but I am not opposed to a release. The reason I didn't do this yesterday is that Joe wanted some time to pin the stable requirements, which I believe he

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-12 Thread Michael Still
next week instead. Michael On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Joe Gordon wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Michael Still wrote: >> >> The previous policy is that we do a release "when requested" or when a >> critical bug fix merges. I don't

[openstack-dev] [nova] Outcome of the nova FFE meeting for Kilo

2015-02-16 Thread Michael Still
Hi, we had a meeting this morning to try and work through all the FFE requests for Nova. The meeting was pretty long -- two hours or so -- and we did in in the nova IRC channel in an attempt to be as open as possible. The agenda for the meeting was the list of FFE requests at https://etherpad.open

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