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

2015-02-19 Thread Michael Still
ann to the novaclient release group now. Michael On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > > On 2/12/2015 6:55 PM, Michael Still wrote: >> >> This was discussed in the nova meeting this morning. In that meeting >> we declared ourselves unwedged and ready

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

2015-02-19 Thread Michael Still
I can do another release if needed once we've landed a fix, although it sounds like this can be fixed in neutron? Michael On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:33 AM, melanie witt wrote: > On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:52, Terry Wilson wrote: > >> Unfortunately, the new novaclient release ended up completely brea

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Does it make sense to purge old stuff regularly so we have a better > overview? Or maybe we should chart a distribution of age of proposed > changesets, too in order to get a better understanding of where the > outliers are? Given the ab

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty specs are now open

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Still
Hi, this is just a quick note to let you know that Liberty specs are now open for Nova. By open I mean that it is possible to upload such a spec, but I wouldn't expect to see much review effort on these until Kilo is ready. If authors of previously approved specs (Juno or Kilo) want to use the "p

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] proposing feature for Liberty, would this need a spec?

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Still
I'm not 100% sure if this would be trivial or not, but the process to find out isn't scary. We should add this to a nova meeting agenda on the wiki and talk through it during a meeting. (Noting that we're not approving specs for liberty in any form until the Kilo branch is cut, so we have some tim

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking ideas for summit sessions

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Still
Hi, let's start tracking ideas for summit sessions in this etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-summit-ideas Have at it! Cheers, Michael -- Rackspace Australia __ OpenStack Development Mailing List

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to send out a status update for the migration from nova-network to Neutron, as there hasn't been as much progress as we'd hoped for in Kilo. There are a few issues which have been slowing progress down. First off, creating an all encompassing turn key upgrade

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Hyper-V CI broken?

2015-03-30 Thread Michael Still
I apologise if there's already been an email about this, I can't see one. Is the Hyper-V CI broken at the moment? It looks like there are a number of tests failing for every change, including trivial typo fixes. An example: http://64.119.130.115/168500/4/results.html.gz http://stackalytics.com/r

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Identifying release critical bugs in Kilo

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Still
Hi! As discussed in the nova meeting last week, now is the time for us to be focusing on closing release critical bugs in Kilo. The nominal date for RC1 is 9 April, but it will release sooner than that if we close all of the bugs targetted to RC1 before then. This calls for two actions: - if yo

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hierarchical Multitenancy quotas

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Still
The blueprint for this work appears to be https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nested-quota-driver-api which shows it didn't make it into Nova in Kilo. Looking at the reviews, I agree they didn't get enough attention, but there isn't a lot that we can do about that right now. We can revisit

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] bug expiration

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Joe Gordon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote: >> Le 01/04/2015 15:51, Sean Dague a écrit : >>> >>> I just spent a chunk of the morning purging out some really old >>> Incomplete bugs because about 9 months ago we disabled the auto >>> exp

Re: [openstack-dev] Mellanox request for permission for Nova CI

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
This looks good to me, but it would be interesting to see what Sean or Matt thought. Michael On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Joe Gordon wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Lenny Verkhovsky > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> We had some issues with presentation of the logs, now it

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] unit tests result in false negatives on system z platform CI

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
Thanks for the detailed email on this. How about we add this to the agenda for this weeks nova meeting? One option would be to add a fixture to some higher level test class, but perhaps someone has a better idea than that. Michael On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Markus Zoeller wrote: > Context:

Re: [openstack-dev] Reducing noise of the ML (was: Re: [Ceilometer] proposal to add ZhiQiang Fan to Ceilometer core)

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
Actually, for some projects the +1 is part of a public voting process and therefore required. Michael On 2 Apr 2015 8:11 am, "Steve Martinelli" wrote: > *puts mailing list police hat on* > > Refer to > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/059642.html > > I know we're try

[openstack-dev] [Nova] PTL Candidacy

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
I'd like another term as Nova PTL, if you'll have me. I feel Kilo has gone reasonably well for Nova -- our experiment with priorities has meant that we’ve got a lot of important work done. We have progressed well with cells v2, our continued objects transition, scheduler refactoring, and the v2.1

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] PTL Candidacy

2015-04-06 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Matthew Booth wrote: > On 02/04/15 07:20, Michael Still wrote: First off, sorry for the slow reply to this email. The reason that I sent my candidacy email at the very start of the election window is that Easter is a four day holiday in Australia, so I sent

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [stringfreeze] request for SFE

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
I am ok with this change too, which now has two +2's. If someone doesn't object in the next few hours I will merge the change. Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Finucane, Stephen wrote: >> Nova cores, >> >> I would like to request a SFE for the below fix: >> >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [stringfreeze] request for SFE for live-migration on system z (review 166130)

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
How many users are likely to use live migration without the changes to qemu you mention? How functional would the live migration be? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Markus Zoeller wrote: > I'd like to request a string freeze exception for this review: > > https://review.opens

[openstack-dev] In loving memory of Chris Yeoh

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
It is my sad duty to inform the community that Chris Yeoh passed away this morning. Chris leaves behind a daughter Alyssa, aged 6, who I hope will remember Chris as the clever and caring person that I will remember him as. I haven’t had a chance to confirm with the family if they want flowers or a

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Things to tackle in Liberty

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Still
I just wanted to send a note about John running in the PTL election for Nova. I want to make it clear that I think having more than one candidate is a good thing -- its a healthy part of a functional democracy, and it also means regardless of the outcome we have at least one succession planning op

[openstack-dev] [Nova] RC1 state of play

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Still
There are a few bugs still outstanding for nova's RC1. Here's a quick summary. For each of these we need to either merge the fix, or bump the bug from being release blocking. - https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1427351 "cells: hypervisor API extension can't find compute_node services" Thi

Re: [openstack-dev] In loving memory of Chris Yeoh

2015-04-12 Thread Michael Still
o fix this. There will be charity envelopes available at the funeral, or you can choose your preferred research to fund, should you wish to do so. You have our thanks." Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Still wrote: > It is my sad duty to inform the community that Chris Yeoh

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Maintaining focus on Kilo

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Still
Hi, we need to make sure we continue to progress on bugs targeted as likely to need backport to Kilo. The current list is here -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=kilo-rc-potential . Bugs on that list which have fixes merged and backports prepared will stand a very good chance of g

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Maintaining focus on Kilo

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Dan Smith wrote: >> we need to make sure we continue to progress on bugs targeted as >> likely to need backport to Kilo. The current list is here -- >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=kilo-rc-potential . >> >> Bugs on that list which have fixes merg

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Required data migrations in Kilo, need Turbo Hipster tests updated

2015-04-20 Thread Michael Still
Hey, turbo hipster already knows how to upgrade major releases, so adding this should be possible. That said, I've been travelling all day so haven't had a chance to look at this. If Josh doesn't beat me to it, I will take a look when I get to my hotel tonight. (We should also note that we can ju

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Required data migrations in Kilo, need Turbo Hipster tests updated

2015-04-22 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Dan Smith wrote: >> Sure, but for people doing continuous deployment, they clearly haven't >> ran the migrate_flavor_data (or if they have, they haven't filed any >> bugs about it not working[0]). > > Hence the usefulness of T-H here, right? The point of the migrat

[openstack-dev] TC non-candidacy

2015-04-22 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I've served on the TC for a while now and enjoyed it. However, I feel I've reached a point where I need to step back and take a break. I will therefore not be running this time around. I'm sure I'll return just as soon as my righteous anger builds up again. Cheers, Michael -- Rackspace Aust

Re: [openstack-dev] [ec2-api] EC2-API release 0.1.0 available

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Still
Excellent, and well done! I think it would be a good idea to send this announcement to the openstack-operators list as well, as some ops people might not notice it here. Cheers, Michael On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Alexandre Levine wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've decided to cut our firs

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Melanie Witt to nova-core

2015-04-30 Thread Michael Still
+1 I think she'd be a valuable addition to the team. Michael On 30 Apr 2015 9:30 pm, "John Garbutt" wrote: > Hi, > > I propose we add Melanie to nova-core. > > She has been consistently doing great quality code reviews[1], > alongside a wide array of other really valuable contributions to the >

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

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that I am going through abandoning old specs for Nova at the moment. The criteria I am using is: - spec targets kilo - no review comments or other activity since January or February I think its worth reinforcing that an abandon isn't a -2... An upload of a

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Ironic] Large number of ironic driver bugs in nova

2015-05-05 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I noticed last night that there are 23 bugs currently filed in nova tagged as ironic related. Whilst some of those are scheduler issues, a lot of them seem like things in the ironic driver itself. Does the ironic team have someone assigned to work on these bugs and generally keep an eye on th

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Still
As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning, we'd like to gauge interest in a mid-cycle meetup for the Liberty release. To that end, I've created the following eventbrite event like we have had for previous meetups. If you sign up, you're expressing interest in the event and if we decide there's

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-08 Thread Michael Still
I thought I should let people know that we've had 14 people sign up for the mid-cycle so far. Michael On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Still wrote: > As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning, we'd like to gauge > interest in a mid-cycle meetup for the Liberty rele

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Still
l On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Michael Still wrote: > I thought I should let people know that we've had 14 people sign up > for the mid-cycle so far. > > Michael > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Still wrote: >> As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning,

Re: [openstack-dev] [networking-ovn] metadata agent implementation

2017-05-07 Thread Michael Still
It would be interesting for this to be built in a way where other endpoints could be added to the list that have extra headers added to them. For example, we could end up with something quite similar to EC2 IAMS if we could add headers on the way through for requests to OpenStack endpoints. Do yo

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Would be possible to modify metadata when instance is in rescued state?

2017-05-09 Thread Michael Still
This sort of question comes up every six months or so it seems. The issue is that for config drive users we don't have a way of rebuilding all of the config drive (for example, the root password is gone). That's probably an issue for rescue because its presumably one of the things you might reset.

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Deprecating localfs?

2017-06-07 Thread Michael Still
2014 at 08:26:44AM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Daniel P. Berrange > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:27:52PM +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > > >> Michael Still wrote: > > >> > > >>

[openstack-dev] Is Routes==2.3.1 a binary only package or something?

2017-06-12 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I'm trying to explain this behaviour in stable/newton, which specifies Routes==2.3.1 in upper-constraints: $ pip install --no-binary :all: Routes==2.3.1 ... Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Routes==2.3.1 (from versions: 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.7

Re: [openstack-dev] Is Routes==2.3.1 a binary only package or something?

2017-06-12 Thread Michael Still
te: > On 06/12/2017 04:29 AM, Michael Still wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to explain this behaviour in stable/newton, which specifies > > Routes==2.3.1 in upper-constraints: > > > > $ pip install --no-binary :all: Routes==2.3.1 > > ... > >

Re: [openstack-dev] Is Routes==2.3.1 a binary only package or something?

2017-06-12 Thread Michael Still
Certainly removing the "--no-binary :all:" results in a build that builds. I'll test and see if it works todayish. Michael On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2017, at 21:36, Michael Still wrote: > > The experimental buildroot based iron

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Broken nova-lxd

2017-07-27 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I'm cc'ing openstack-dev because your email is the same as the comment you made on the relevant review, and I think getting visibility with the wider Nova team is a good idea. Unfortunately this is a risk of having an out of tree Nova driver, which has never been the recommended path for impl

[openstack-dev] [Nova] On idmapshift deprecation

2017-07-28 Thread Michael Still
Hi. I'm working through the process of converting the libvirt driver in Nova to privsep with the assistance of Tony Breeds. For various reasons, I started with removing all the calls to the chown binary and am replacing them with privsep equivalents. You can see this work at: https://review.o

[openstack-dev] Minimum version of shred in our supported distros?

2017-08-19 Thread Michael Still
Hi, nova.virt.libvirt.storage.lvm.clear_volume() has a comment that we could use shred to zero out volumes efficiently if we could assume that shred 8.22 was in all our downstream distros [1]. shred 8.22 shipped in 2013 [2]. Can we assume that thing now? xenial appears to ship with 8.25 for examp

Re: [openstack-dev] Minimum version of shred in our supported distros?

2017-08-19 Thread Michael Still
Specifically we could do something like this: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/495532 Michael On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Michael Still wrote: > Hi, > > nova.virt.libvirt.storage.lvm.clear_volume() has a comment that we could > use shred to zero out volumes efficiently if we

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] On idmapshift deprecation

2017-08-20 Thread Michael Still
I'm going to take the general silence on this as permission to remove the idmapshift binary from nova. You're welcome. Michael On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Michael Still wrote: > Hi. > > I'm working through the process of converting the libvirt driver in No

Re: [openstack-dev] Minimum version of shred in our supported distros?

2017-08-20 Thread Michael Still
017 at 03:43:22PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > > Hi, > > > > nova.virt.libvirt.storage.lvm.clear_volume() has a comment that we could > > use shred to zero out volumes efficiently if we could assume that shred > > 8.22 was in all our downstream distros [1]. shred 8.22 sh

Re: [openstack-dev] Minimum version of shred in our supported distros?

2017-08-21 Thread Michael Still
"Matt Riedemann" wrote: > On 8/20/2017 1:11 AM, Michael Still wrote: > >> Specifically we could do something like this: >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/495532 >> > > Sounds like we're OK with doing this in Queens given the other discussion > in this

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][nova][mogan] How to show respect to the original authors?

2017-09-20 Thread Michael Still
Dims, I'm not sure that's actually possible though. Many of these files have been through rewrites and developed over a large number of years. Listing all authors isn't practical. Given the horse has bolted on forking these files, I feel like a comment acknowledging the original source file is pro

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Privsep] Heads up: privsep conversion for nova-compute

2017-09-22 Thread Michael Still
Hi, this email is a courtesy message to make sure you're all aware that at the PTG we decided to try to convert all of nova-compute to privsep for the Queens release. This will almost certainly have an impact on out of tree drivers, although I am hoping the fall out is minimal. A change like this

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] reset key pair during rebuilding

2017-09-27 Thread Michael Still
One thing I'd like to explore is what the functional difference between a rebuild and a delete / create cycle is. With a rebuild you get to keep your IP I suppose, but that could also be true of floating IPs for a delete / create as well. Operationally, why would I want to inject a new keypair? Th

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Forum topics brainstorming

2017-09-28 Thread Michael Still
to discuss anything in flight for Queens, what > we're working on, and have a chance to ask questions of operators/users for > feedback. For example, we plan to add vGPU support but it will be quite > simple to start, similar with volume multi-attach. > > 4. Michael Still had an i

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] key_pair update on rebuild (a whole lot of conversations)

2017-10-03 Thread Michael Still
I think new-keypair-on-rebuild makes sense for some forms of key rotation as well. For example, I've worked with a big data ironic customer who uses rebuild to deploy new OS images onto their ironic managed machines. Presumably if they wanted to do a keypair rotation they'd do it in a very similar

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Privsep transition state of play

2017-11-02 Thread Michael Still
Greetings, I hope everyone travelling to the Sydney Summit is enjoying jet lag just as much as I normally do. Revenge is sweet! My big advice is that caffeine is your friend, and to not lick any of the wildlife. On a more serious note, I want to give a checkpoint for the Nova privsep transition i

Re: [openstack-dev] [forum] Sydney Forum etherpad list

2017-11-02 Thread Michael Still
The privsep session doesn't appear to be in that list. Did it get dropped or something? Michael On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Etherpads for the Forum sessions in Sydney can be found here: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Sydney2017 > > If you

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Privsep transition state of play

2017-11-05 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Dan Smith wrote: > > I hope everyone travelling to the Sydney Summit is enjoying jet lag > > just as much as I normally do. Revenge is sweet! My big advice is that > > caffeine is your friend, and to not lick any of the wildlife. > > I wasn't planning on licking an

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Moving the virt_mkfs flags to privsep

2017-11-07 Thread Michael Still
Hi, a really really long time ago (think 2011), we added support in Nova for configuring the mkfs commands that are run for new ephemeral disks using the virt_mkfs command. The current implementation is in nova/virt/disk/api.py for your reading pleasure. I'm battling a little with how to move thi

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Moving the virt_mkfs flags to privsep

2017-11-07 Thread Michael Still
That does work for me, except it means I'll still need to port it to privsep to hit my goal of no rootwrap in Queens. I can live with that. Michael On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > On 11/8/2017 12:24 PM, Michael Still wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Summary of ironic sessions from Sydney

2017-11-22 Thread Michael Still
Thanks for this summary. I'd say the cinder-booted IPA is definitely of interest to the operators I've met. Building new IPAs, especially when trying to iterate on what drivers are needed is a pain so being able to iterate faster would be very useful. That said, I guess this implies booting more th

[openstack-dev] [Kolla][Kubernetes][Doomed] So close but yet so far

2017-11-30 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I'm out of my depth a little here. I've done the following: - installed kubernetes - followed the deploy guide for kolla-kubernetes [1] - except where I didn't because I had to fix it [2] I can download an openrc and even send a "nova boot" that looks like it works. However, I have this c

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Switching to longer development cycles

2017-12-13 Thread Michael Still
Do we continue to support the previous two releases as stable branches? Doesn't that mean we double the amount of time we need to keep older CI setups around? Isn't that already a pain point for the stable teams? Michael On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [tc] Community Goals for Rocky -- privsep

2018-01-28 Thread Michael Still
Sorry for the slow reply, I've spent the last month camping in a tent and it was wonderful. The privsep transition isn't complete in Nova, but it was never intended to be in Queens. We did get further than we envisaged and its doable to finish off in Rocky. That said, I feel like we have a nice e

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack] Naming polls - and some issues

2016-07-17 Thread Michael Still
So, is now a good time to mention that "Quamby" is the name of a local prison? Michael On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > (top posting on purpose) > > > > I have re-started the Q poll and am slowly adding all of you fine folks > > to it. Let's keep our fingers crosse

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][all] Big tent? (Related to Plugins for all)

2016-07-18 Thread Michael Still
On 16 Jul 2016 1:27 PM, "Thomas Herve" wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: > > Some specific things: > > > > Magnum trying to not use Barbican as it adds an addition dependency. See the discussion on the devel mailing list for details. > > > > Horizon discussions at th

Re: [openstack-dev] [Kolla] [Fuel] [tc] Looks like Mirantis is getting Fuel CCP (docker/k8s) kicked off

2016-07-27 Thread Michael Still
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: [snip] The issue is, as I see it, a parallel activity to one of the that is > currently accepted into the Big Tent, aka Containerized Deployment [snip] This seems to be the crux of the matter as best as I can tell. Is it true to say that th

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][ptl][tc] extra ATCs for newton

2016-08-10 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > It's time to make sure we have all of our active technical contributors > (ATCs) identified for Newton. > > Following the Foundation bylaws [1] and TC Charter [2], Project > teams should identify contributors who have had a significant impac

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][ptl][tc] extra ATCs for newton

2016-08-10 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Michael Still's message of 2016-08-11 07:01:37 +1000: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Doug Hellmann > > wrote: > > > > > It's time to make sure we have all of our active technical contributors > > > (ATCs) identified for

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][ptl][tc] extra ATCs for newton

2016-08-10 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > Excerpts from Michael Still's message of 2016-08-11 07:27:07 +1000: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Doug Hellmann > > wrote: > > > > > Excerpts from Michael Still's message of 2016-08-11 07:01:37 +1000: > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at

Re: [openstack-dev] Let's drop the postgresql gate job

2016-08-18 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > It's that time of year again to talk about killing this job, at least from > the integrated gate (move it to experimental for people that care about > postgresql, or make it gating on a smaller subset of projects like oslo.db). > > The post

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hold off on pushing new patches for config option cleanup

2016-08-18 Thread Michael Still
We're still ok with merging existing ones though? Michael On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Roger that. > > On 08/18/2016 11:48 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > >> We have a lot of open changes for the centralize / cleanup config option >> work: >> >> https://review.openstack.org/#

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hold off on pushing new patches for config option cleanup

2016-08-21 Thread Michael Still
So, if this is about preserving CI time, then its cool for me to merge these on a US Sunday when the gate is otherwise idle, right? Michael On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 08/18/2016 04:46 PM, Michael Still wrote: > > We're still ok with merging existi

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hold off on pushing new patches for config option cleanup

2016-08-22 Thread Michael Still
Its a shame so many are -2'ed. There is a lot there I could have merged yesterday if it wasn't for that. Michael On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 08/22/2016 12:10 AM, Michael Still wrote: > >> So, if this is about preserving CI time, then it

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][keystone] auth for new metadata plugins

2016-08-30 Thread Michael Still
Sorry for being slow on this one, I've been pulled into some internal things at work. So... Talking to Matt Riedemann just now, it seems like we should continue to pass through the user authentication details when we have them to the plugin. The problem is what to do in the case where we do not (w

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][keystone] auth for new metadata plugins

2016-08-31 Thread Michael Still
Riedemann wrote: > On 8/30/2016 4:36 PM, Michael Still wrote: > >> Sorry for being slow on this one, I've been pulled into some internal >> things at work. >> >> So... Talking to Matt Riedemann just now, it seems like we should >> continue to pass through the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][keystone] auth for new metadata plugins

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Adam Young wrote: > On 08/31/2016 07:56 AM, Michael Still wrote: > > There is a quick sketch of what a service account might look like at > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/363606/ -- I need to do some more > fiddling to get the new option group

[openstack-dev] [Ironic][Bifrost] Manually enrolling a node

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
Heya, I've been playing with bifrost to help me manage some lab machines. I must say the install process was well documented and smooth, so that was a pleasure. Thanks! That said, I am struggling to get a working node enrolment. I'm resisting using the JSON file / ansible playbook approach, becau

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Bifrost] Manually enrolling a node

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
Replying to a single email because I am lazier than you. I would have included logs, except /var/log/ironic on the bifrost machine is empty. There are entries in syslog, but nothing that seems related (its all periodic task kind of stuff). However, Mark is right. I had an /etc/ironic/ironic.conf

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Bifrost] Manually enrolling a node

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
management > and power interfaces were not enabled. The patch should address that but > please let us know if there are further issues. > Mark > > > On 4 Mar 2018 7:59 p.m., "Michael Still" wrote: > > Replying to a single email because I am lazier than you. &g

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] vendordata plugin for freeIPA host enrollment

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
I was thinking about this the other day... How do you de-register instances from freeipa when the instance is deleted? Is there a missing feature in vendordata there that you need? Michael On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote: > Wanted to let you know I'm working on a nova meta

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Bifrost] Manually enrolling a node

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
onic, or setting > [default] log_dir to the same in ironic.conf. > > I'm surprised it's not logging to a file by default. > > Mark > > On 4 Mar 2018 8:33 p.m., "Michael Still" wrote: > >> Ok, so I applied your patch and redeployed. I now get a list of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Bifrost] Manually enrolling a node

2018-03-04 Thread Michael Still
_dir variable to /var/log/ironic, or setting >> [default] log_dir to the same in ironic.conf. >> >> I'm surprised it's not logging to a file by default. >> >> Mark >> >> On 4 Mar 2018 8:33 p.m., "Michael Still" wrote: >> >>

[openstack-dev] [Tatu][Nova] Handling instance destruction

2018-03-15 Thread Michael Still
Heya, I've just stumbled across Tatu and the design presentation [1], and I am wondering how you handle cleaning up instances when they are deleted given that nova vendordata doesn't expose a "delete event". Specifically I'm wondering if we should add support for such an event to vendordata someh

Re: [openstack-dev] [Tatu][Nova] Handling instance destruction

2018-03-15 Thread Michael Still
gt; > best, > Pino > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Michael Still wrote: > >> Heya, >> >> I've just stumbled across Tatu and the design presentation [1], and I am >> wondering how you handle cleaning up instances when they are deleted given >

Re: [openstack-dev] [Tatu][Nova] Handling instance destruction

2018-03-18 Thread Michael Still
aving an interface for vendordata that gets deletes would be quite nice. > Right now for novajoin we listen to the nova notifications for updates and > deletes; if this could be handled natively by vendordata, it would simplify > our codebase. > > BR > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at

[openstack-dev] [nova] pep8 failures on master

2018-04-03 Thread Michael Still
Thanks to jichenjc for fixing the pep8 failures I was seeing on master. I'd decided they were specific to my local dev environment given no one else was seeing them. As I said in the patch that fixed the issue [1], I think its worth exploring how these got through the gate in the first place. Ther

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] pep8 failures on master

2018-04-03 Thread Michael Still
itchell, wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 07:54 +1000, Michael Still wrote: > > Thanks to jichenjc for fixing the pep8 failures I was seeing on > > master. I'd decided they were specific to my local dev environment > > given no one else was seeing them. > > > > As

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Deployers] Optional, platform specific, dependancies in requirements.txt

2018-04-11 Thread Michael Still
Hi, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/523387 proposes adding a z/VM specific dependancy to nova's requirements.txt. When I objected the counter argument is that we have examples of windows specific dependancies (os-win) and powervm specific dependancies in that file already. I think perhaps all th

[openstack-dev] [Nova] z/VM introducing a new config drive format

2018-04-11 Thread Michael Still
Heya, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/527658 is a z/VM patch which introduces their support for config drive. They do this by attaching a tarball to the instance, having pretended in the nova code that it is an iso9660. This worries me. In the past we've been concerned about adding new filesyste

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] z/VM introducing a new config drive format

2018-04-11 Thread Michael Still
The more I think about it, the more I dislike how the proposed driver also "lies" about it using iso9660. That's definitely wrong: if CONF.config_drive_format in ['iso9660']: # cloud-init only support iso9660 and vfat, but in z/VM # implementation, can't link a disk

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Deployers] Optional, platform specific, dependancies in requirements.txt

2018-04-12 Thread Michael Still
Internet: jiche...@cn.ibm.com > > Phone: +86-10-82451493 > > Address: 3/F Ring Building, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, Haidian > > District, Beijing 100193, PRC > > > > Inactive hide details for Matt Riedemann ---04/12/2018 08:46:25 AM---On > > 4/11/2018 5:09 PM, Mi

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] z/VM introducing a new config driveformat

2018-04-18 Thread Michael Still
I'm confused about the design of AE to be honest. Is there a good reason that this functionality couldn't be provided by cloud-init? I think there's a lot of cost in deviating from the industry standard, so the reasons to do so have to be really solid. I'm also a bit confused by what seems to be s

[openstack-dev] [nova] A short guide to adding privsep'ed methods in Nova

2018-05-03 Thread Michael Still
I was asked yesterday for a guide on how to write new escalated methods with oslo privsep, so I wrote up a blog post about it this morning. It might be useful to others here. http://www.madebymikal.com/how-to-make-a-privileged-call-with-oslo-privsep/ I intend to write up how to add privsep to a n

[openstack-dev] [All] A worked example of adding privsep to an OpenStack project

2018-05-07 Thread Michael Still
Hi, further to last week's example of how to add a new privsep'ed call in Nova, I thought I'd write up how to add privsep to a new OpenStack project. I've used Cinder in this worked example, but it really applies to any project which wants to do things with escalated permissions. The write up is

Re: [openstack-dev] [StarlingX] StarlingX code followup discussions

2018-05-23 Thread Michael Still
I think a good start would be a concrete list of the places you felt you needed to change upstream and the specific reasons for each that it wasn't done as part of the community. For example, I look at your nova fork and it has a "don't allow this call during an upgrade" decorator on many API call

Re: [openstack-dev] [new][nimble] New project: Nimble

2016-11-27 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: [Snip] > > I don't see any compelling reason not to work with the Nova and Ironic > projects and add the functionality you wish to see in those respective > projects. > Jay, I agree and I don't. First off, I think improving our current projects

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Nominating Stephen Finucane for nova-core

2016-12-03 Thread Michael Still
+1, I'd value him on the team. Michael On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > I'm proposing that we add Stephen Finucane to the nova-core team. Stephen > has been involved with nova for at least around a year now, maybe longer, > my ability to tell time in nova has gotten fuzzy

[openstack-dev] Retire the radar project?

2016-12-21 Thread Michael Still
Hi, radar was an antique effort to import some outside-OpenStack code that did CI reliability dashboarding. It was never really a thing, and has been abandoned over time. The last commit that wasn't part of a project wide change series was in January 2015. Does anyone object to me following the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][nova-docker] Time to retire nova-docker?

2016-12-29 Thread Michael Still
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that the nova LXC driver is much better supported than the nova-docker driver. Michael On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Esra Celik wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > nova-lxc is not recommended in production [1]. And LXD is built on top of > LXC AFAIK. But I will investi

[openstack-dev] [Nova] python 3 tests hate my exception handling

2017-01-03 Thread Michael Still
So... Our python3 tests hate [1] my exception handling for continued vendordata implementation [2]. Basically, it goes a bit like this -- I need to move from using requests to keystoneauth1 for external vendordata requests. This is because we're adding support for sending keystone headers with th

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] python 3 tests hate my exception handling

2017-01-04 Thread Michael Still
t Riedemann" wrote: > > On 1/3/2017 8:48 PM, Michael Still wrote: > >> So... >> >> Our python3 tests hate [1] my exception handling for continued >> vendordata implementation [2]. >> >> Basically, it goes a bit like this -- I need to move from usin

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] To rootwrap or piggyback privsep helpers?

2017-01-25 Thread Michael Still
I think #3 is the right call for now. The person we had working on privsep has left the company, and I don't have anyone I could get to work on this right now. Oh, and we're out of time. Michael On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: > The patch to add support for ephemeral stor

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