Not sure If I read it right, does this mean VCloud support will be removed in 1.8.x onward?
This will be big dent for Jcloud users. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Adrian Cole <adrian.f.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > TL;DR; > > jclouds will stop maintaining vcloud in 1.8.x. We will remove vcloud > (and the vcloud-director labs provider) in version 1.9.0. > > Our vcloud codebase is old, unsupported by cloud providers and a > crippling maintenance debt on the project. If we want jclouds to > endure, we have to make difficult decisions such as this. > > The removal of vcloud is being tracked in the following jira > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-780 > > Best, > -A > > Here's a copy of the description of JCLOUDS-780 > > For over a month, we've discussed the fate of vcloud [1]. For example, > we've already removed all vcloud providers as they no longer work with > version 1.0 [2]. Also users who contact us either run custom forks > [3], or also find features they need missing [4]. > > Eventhough the replacement code was supposed to be vcloud-director, it > has never left labs, and has too much technical debt to continue > attempting to support [5]. > > A couple stakeholders have offered they may be able to help [6], or > encourage vmware to add a new api to cover modern products [7]. > > Good wishes aside, the facts remain that we have 2 aging apis, that > are unsupportable in current form. Keeping vcloud and vcloud-director > codebases limits the project's ability to move forward, so we must > drop them. > > Users who wish to continue on either codebase will need to maintain > their own fork. > > When it comes time to start vcloud products again, we'll want to start > very small, with at least 2 champions, and some means to keep tests > passing. If we don't, we'll surely repeat history again. > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/4p22wkbrd4mncmss > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-743 > [3] http://markmail.org/message/gxcl37zq2pnn22sf > [4] http://markmail.org/thread/ligd5sbkmvoo7vdi > [5] http://markmail.org/thread/s5i6i4nr6f5k5wew > [6] http://markmail.org/thread/5fav2wa6ylxbqpdy > [7] http://markmail.org/thread/q4otznoqoygrz64b >
