OK, I was better to said this at the start. I will put this some where else.
From: Ignasi Barrera [mailto:notificati...@github.com] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 11:56 AM To: jclouds/jclouds-labs Cc: Izek Greenfield (igreenfi) Subject: Re: [jclouds-labs] Add vSphere support (#61) Hi @igreenfield<https://github.com/igreenfield> @if6was9<https://github.com/if6was9> , I understand that the merge can be urgent, but many of the comments have still not being addressed (for example, the interfaces coupled to vijava). There have been recently several discussions about the providers in labs. You'll have seen that we've removed many of them, such as virtualbox, fcgp, jenkins, opsource-servers, and more. This is due to the fact that the labs repo has become a place where obsolete providers remain forever without maintenance, and make it really difficult to evolve the jclouds core and the main providers. Furthermore, several providers in labs are being used also in production, which makes it impossible to us to address major refactors without breaking many legacy (and unmaintained) code. The jclouds-labs repository should be a temporal place where providers can be tested, but with a limited TTL to be promoted to the main repo, or removed. This will improve the overall quality of jclouds itself, and users will have a clear understanding on the state of each provider. This said, I hope you understand that we can't merge providers in a state that is unlikely to be aligned with the way things are done in jclouds in a reasonable amount of time. I really appreciate all the effort that is being put in this PR, and I hope the reviews helped, but a project in this structure has no hope of being promoted out of labs. I suggest you host this code and publish your own snapshots. We will gladly send contributors your way if asked, but our only sustainable support for vsphere are cloud controllers such as cloudstack and openstack nova. See also: http://markmail.org/message/cdjk4qvvzbd5npye http://markmail.org/message/hiqppxx3ie6e7bya — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/61#issuecomment-60512184>. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/61#issuecomment-60512549
