I do see a bug fix this year from Likitha and the fact that Hugo etc are making fixes is positive as well. But, the end state we desire is (a) good AWSAPI implementation with automated tests, not (b) 2 AWSAPI implementations with no tests!
— Chiradeep From: Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Date: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Moving ec2stack and gstack to the cloudstack repos. On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com<mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>> wrote: “..nobody in the community (aside from you, Likitha and Prachi) have actually touched that code in the last two years. So if we don't maintain that code.." That’s false equivalence. Clearly it has been maintained since there are bug fixes. I don't know…I look at: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/awsapi I see Hugo has fixed some coverity issues I applied a review 8 months ago the rest is older. but maybe I am not looking at this the right way. there is one review still pending: https://reviews.apache.org/r/21776/ So from looking at it this way it does not look actively maintained. No ? But we’re looking to make things better. I am not sure HOW bringing in another compatibility layer brings benefits, UNLESS WE propose to commit time to provide a suite of integration tests (say, via eutester) Do we have a suite of integration tests for awsapi that is running right now ? where ? I did play with eutester and actually patched it to work with cloudstack when I worked on ec2stack: http://sebgoa.blogspot.de/2014/06/eutester-interesting-tool-based-on-boto.html -sebastien Thanks — Chiradeep From: sebgoa <run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com><mailto:run...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Date: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 11:39 AM To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Moving ec2stack and gstack to the cloudstack repos. On Nov 24, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com<mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com><mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>> wrote: Seems legit, but from (bitter) experience, there is no point in a compatible API layer unless somebody puts in the elbow grease to test the compatibility. Since the actual EC2 API as implemented by AWS changes frequently and has undocumented semantics and behavior that varies from the WSDL, this takes some work. So, my question would be how would this benefit the community (unless someone has tested out the compatibility with various tools such as boto, ec2-* CLI). I think the main issue is the on-going maintenance of such an interface. That's also one of the main reason why I advocate to remove awsapi, nobody in the community (aside from you, Likitha and Prachi) have actually touched that code in the last two years. So if we don't maintain that code and indeed run CI against this interface, advertising that we have it gives a false "hope" to users. On the other side of the coin, I think most cloud tools out there now have native cloudstack API support (vagrant, cfg mgmt , libcloud etc…), so the need for a pure ec2 interface has diminished greatly. -sebastien From: Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com><mailto:run...@gmail.com><mailto:run...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org><mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: Moving ec2stack and gstack to the cloudstack repos. Folks, Some of you may know of the existence of: https://github.com/BroganD1993/ec2stack https://github.com/NOPping/gstack These represent a EC2 and a GCE interface to cloudstack. Flask applications that map the requests to the cloudstack API. There was only 3 contributors, myself, Ian (PMC and committer on CS) and Darren Brogan. Darren worked on this during his GSoC 2014 summer project. Both projects are on Apache V2 license. The three of us (Ian, Darren and myself) agree that we would like to move them under the umbrella of cloudstack and manage separate releases like we do cloud monkey. Any objections ? -Sebastien
