I think I picked the wrong approach by creating 2 branches, since after the
first one got merged, the second raised (easily resolvable) merge conflicts.

https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/567

The new load balancer driver is all done anyway, I've created and tested
about 25 production load balancers and the code performs pretty well. A
testament to the library I think!

xml.etree is pretty clunky, but it does the job.

Ant

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Replies are in-line.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:33 PM, anthony shaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > That makes sense..
> >
> > I completed the first PR anyway, #564 and the code refactoring to a
> common
> > connection class and model classes is coming in the second PR.
> >
>
> Sounds good.
>
>
> > Networking driver looks like a good start, whether people are wanting to
> > leverage ACLs, security groups and other items from the neutron
> extensions
> > APIs would be a thought.
> >
> > Does anyone know who the biggest users of this library are? I'm aware of
> > mist.io and some other dev shops using it. I know python-novaclient is
> > popular for purely OS/Nova and jclouds for people like abiquo.
> >
>
> Some other users besides mist.io include DivvyCloud, SixSq and
> CloudControl
> (they use it inside their products to talk to different cloud providers).
> More complete list can be found at
> https://libcloud.apache.org/whois-using.html.
>
> Besides companies listed on this page, many other companies also use it
> internally to provision and manage their cloud resources.
>
>
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Replies are in-line.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, anthony shaw <
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey
> > > > Just a couple of quick ones, I'm working on a few features for the
> > > > dimension data driver namely support for a loadbalancing driver and
> > > > extending the compute to support more functions and the newer API.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 1. I understand the branching requirements are referencing a Jira
> > ticket.
> > > > Do you create a ticket per feature and a feature branch? I've gone
> down
> > > > that path with 736 and LIBCLOUD-7372.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, we follow "feature branch" approach. In your case it would be
> ideal
> > to
> > > submit two PRs - one for new loadbalancing driver and one for compute
> > > driver improvements.
> > >
> > > In case those features are related and share a lot of code (e.g. you
> are
> > > going to refactor some shared code in a common module), then it's OK to
> > > just open a single PR.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Unit tests. The existing tests were mock http results, which I've
> > > extended
> > > > coverage for. Do any of the other drivers utilise a real http
> request?
> > > What
> > > > is the expected level of coverage on the driver?
> > > >
> > >
> > > None of the drivers right now use real HTTP requests since testing
> > against
> > > a real provider API is quite hard (especially emulating all the edge
> > cases,
> > > etc.).
> > >
> > > As far as the expected coverage level goes - we have a no fixed number
> > > requirement, but the more the better :)
> > >
> > >
> > > > 3. What is the plan for a networking driver? Along the lines of the
> > > > openstack systems
> > > >
> > >
> > > I started to work on this in the past (
> > > https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/345), but sadly I didn't have
> > the
> > > time to finish it.
> > >
> > > It would be great if someone could pick it up.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Ant
> > > > Sent from Outlook
> > >
> >
>

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