On 17/06/13 15:36, Tooley, Christopher Tooley (STL) - contr wrote:
> My apologies for the poor formatting and forgotten reference:
> 
>> great timing on the request! Someone put in a feature request for the
>> OpenStack driver a couple weeks ago - tracked at [1] - that was
>> specifically for Elastic IPs and Security Groups. As you'll see on that
>> ticket I started the work of implementing this on the ruby-openstack
>> rubygem side 
> 
> Perfect, I'm looking at the fog/openstack/requests/network directory [ct1] 
> and seeing what I need in that rubygem, is that what you're talking about?
> 

actually - as you may have found out already if you've seen the pull
request I referenced - the Deltacloud OpenStack driver uses the
ruby-openstack rubygem [1] to talk to the OpenStack services.


>> I haven't followed Quantum API development of late - however looking at
>> the v2 API [3] I can't see any support for IPs, Addresses or Load
>> Balancers. Are you sure they are part of Quantum or rather are they
>> extensions to Nova?
> 
> According the comments in the commit messages, this is hitting the Quantum 
> API. This could be a relatively new version of the API however, I'm not sure.
> 
>> In any case - I think for at least 2 of the things
>> you mention - Firewall and IP Addresses the currently open ticket at [1]
>> may be of interest for you. Please monitor progress on that and any
>> contributions you can make (especially testing of submitted code) will
>> help move this forward. For the Load Balancers it's probably a good idea
>> to open a new ticket in JIRA to request this or even for yourself to
>> contribute code to - though please bear in mind that you need to sign
>> the Apache ICLA [4] if you haven't already done that.
> 
> They are definitely of interested. I'll try to pull your branch and take a 
> look around this week (hopefully tonight).
> 
>>> It appears that Deltacloud traffic is really dropping off based on the 
>>> number of messages per month to the mailing list. Am I looking at the wrong 
>>> list, catching the community at a bad time, or is the project losing that 
>>> much in terms of people's available time?
> 
>> To add to what Dies said - I think this email [5] will explain the
>> situation somewhat.
> 
> Thank you, that was kind of what I'd determined as well. It appears that the 
> inevitable convergence is starting. Deltacloud offers something I've not seen 
> in anything else and is the reason we really like it.

good to hear,

thanks, marios


[1] https://github.com/ruby-openstack/ruby-openstack

> 
> [ct1] 
> https://github.com/rackspace/fog/tree/master/lib/fog/openstack/requests/network
> 

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