What exactly was so offensive about what I said? Communities like OpenStack are 
built on top of people *doing* things, not *talking* about things. I'm just 
asking you to contribute code or design help rather than slanderous commentary.

Brian " "Offensive" " Waldon

On Jul 12, 2012, at 11:59 AM, George Reese wrote:

> You evidently have not had to live with the interoperability nightmare known 
> as OpenStack in the same way I have. Otherwise, you would find responses like 
> Brian's much more offensive.
> 
> -George
> 
> On Jul 12, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Christopher B Ferris wrote:
> 
>> This level of response is unnecessary. 
>> 
>> That said, the perspectives which influenced the decision seemed somewhat 
>> weighted to the development community. I could be wrong, but I did not see 
>> much input from the operations community as to the impact.
>> 
>> Clearly, going forward, we want to be more deliberate about changes that may 
>> have impact on operations and he broader ecosystem that bases its efforts on 
>> assumptions established at the start of a release cycle, rather than on 
>> changes introduced late in the cycle.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:24 PM, "George Reese" <george.re...@enstratus.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, I think overall OpenStack has done an absolute shit job of 
>>> compatibility and I had hoped (and made a huge point of this at the 
>>> OpenStack conference) Diablo -> Essex would be the end of this 
>>> compatibility bullshit.
>>> 
>>> But the attitudes in this thread and with respect to the whole Cinder 
>>> question in general suggest to me that this cavalier attitude towards 
>>> forward migration hasn't changed.
>>> 
>>> So you can kiss my ass.
>>> 
>>> -George
>>> 
>>> On Jul 12, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Brian Waldon wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We actually care a hell of a lot about compatibility. We also recognize 
>>>> there are times when we have to sacrifice compatibility so we can move 
>>>> forward at a reasonable pace.
>>>> 
>>>> If you think we are handling anything the wrong way, we would love to hear 
>>>> your suggestions. If you just want to make comments like this, I would 
>>>> suggest you keep them to yourself.
>>>> 
>>>> Have a great day!
>>>> Brian Waldon
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:32 AM, George Reese wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This community just doesn't give a rat's ass about compatibility, does it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -George
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Now that the PPB has decided to promote Cinder to core for the Folsom
>>>>>> release, we need to decide what happens to the existing Nova Volume
>>>>>> code. As far as I can see it there are two basic strategies. I'm going
>>>>>> to give an overview of each here:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Option 1 -- Remove Nova Volume
>>>>>> ==============================
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Process
>>>>>> -------
>>>>>> * Remove all nova-volume code from the nova project
>>>>>> * Leave the existing nova-volume database upgrades and tables in
>>>>>>   place for Folsom to allow for migration
>>>>>> * Provide a simple script in cinder to copy data from the nova
>>>>>>   database to the cinder database (The schema for the tables in
>>>>>>   cinder are equivalent to the current nova tables)
>>>>>> * Work with package maintainers to provide a package based upgrade
>>>>>>   from nova-volume packages to cinder packages
>>>>>> * Remove the db tables immediately after Folsom
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Disadvantages
>>>>>> -------------
>>>>>> * Forces deployments to go through the process of migrating to cinder
>>>>>>   if they want to use volumes in the Folsom release
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Option 2 -- Deprecate Nova Volume
>>>>>> =================================
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Process
>>>>>> -------
>>>>>> * Mark the nova-volume code deprecated but leave it in the project
>>>>>>   for the folsom release
>>>>>> * Provide a migration path at folsom
>>>>>> * Backport bugfixes to nova-volume throughout the G-cycle
>>>>>> * Provide a second migration path at G
>>>>>> * Package maintainers can decide when to migrate to cinder
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Disadvantages
>>>>>> -------------
>>>>>> * Extra maintenance effort
>>>>>> * More confusion about storage in openstack
>>>>>> * More complicated upgrade paths need to be supported
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Personally I think Option 1 is a much more manageable strategy because
>>>>>> the volume code doesn't get a whole lot of attention. I want to keep
>>>>>> things simple and clean with one deployment strategy. My opinion is that
>>>>>> if we choose option 2 we will be sacrificing significant feature
>>>>>> development in G in order to continue to maintain nova-volume for another
>>>>>> release.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But we really need to know if this is going to cause major pain to 
>>>>>> existing
>>>>>> deployments out there. If it causes a bad experience for deployers we
>>>>>> need to take our medicine and go with option 2. Keep in mind that it
>>>>>> shouldn't make any difference to end users whether cinder or nova-volume
>>>>>> is being used. The current nova-client can use either one.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Vish
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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